by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 12, 2015 | Philosophy & Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience
I’m not sure how to decorate or dress for Darwin Day, but I assume it would be something pragmatic and sensible. But as some people make it their religion — the way they relate to life — some take it too far. One blogger I’ve encountered (among...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 11, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
This short TED Talk has a lot of little gems in a big issue. The telling change of a book title. The democratization of biochemistry. The false fears of the Hadron Collider weighed against considerations of more credible plausibilities. The speaker posits that,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 28, 2014 | Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
A TED Talk by climate economist Nicholas Stern posits our environmental future as a technological and regulatory problem, and being merely a matter of good choices over bad. It inspired me to think and address the problem in a larger meta-context of global politics...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 14, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
This TED Talk doesn’t talk about Raw Foodism. It is really about brain cells, and what makes our brain capacity possible compared to other primates. The shocking answer is cooking, and the implication removes legitimacy from the Raw Foodism fad. The math is...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 6, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology, Science & Pseudoscience
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 21, 2013} What does it mean to have intellectual integrity? It means you admit error, changing your mind when the evidence says you should. Someone who uses the trappings of science to masquerade as a scientist, but...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 22, 2014 | Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 9, 2013, as “Future drug policy should include more freedom to choose”} It’s a warm and wonderful feeling to read The Gazette’s story about 6-year-old Charlotte Figi and...
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