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The 12 Days of Christmas - What is a "Worldview?"

http://The12DaysofChristmas.today/worldview.htm

you choose. "Is science possible?" is a question science cannot answer. It is an assumption of your worldview. A Worldview is a presupposition . People don't choose thei

Psychological hedonism? The pleasure seekers

https://www.biopsychiatry.com/pleasure/

investigation into the science of pleasure. His aim was to find out what, if anything, was the point of pleasure. His conclusions, and those of other scientists working in the fie

TRANSCRIPT: Obama's Victory Speech

https://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6181477

connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through t

Haeckel's Frauds and Forgeries

https://creationism.org/books/HaeckelsForgeries1915/

phylogeny" pseudo-science and the wholly contrived "biogenetic law" both remain in many biology textbooks even today - in the early 21st Century! Old evolution frauds die hard....

The Last Psychiatrist: Two Causes Of Autism

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/02/two_causes_of_autism.html

finally, a post about science only, that doesn't offend anyone. Whoops, sorry, that's my other blog.  In this blog, I write about how the parents cause autism . I. First, let

Swami Vidyatmananda "The Making of a Devotee" Chapter 3

https://ramakrishna.de/vidyatmananda/Chapter3.php

Spencer, President of Science Research Associates, was enthusiastic about Kinsey's work and hoped to publish his books. It is astonishing to remember that forty years ago Kinsey's
Chapter 3 of the Autobiography of the late Swami Vidyatmananda (1913-2000), one of the first westerners to become a monk of the Ramakrishna-Order of Inda

Wrongthink/posts/reaching-a-sound-state-of-mind/

https://wrongthink.link/posts/reaching-a-sound-state-of-mind/

of Television, and some science fiction series. By the time the scamdemic rolled around, I was already far outside the mass media bubble. I had only heard about its events through

Building software for yourself with Linus Lee (Changelog Interviews #455)

https://changelog.com/podcast/455

introductory computer science courses at my university, and one of the really fun projects we got to do at the end of the semester was build a really simple Lisp interpreter, whic
Today we're talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today's show is focused on L

The Illusion Of Life

https://advaitism.com/illusion.html

/ Audio Collection Science & Nonduality / Books, Video, Audio, Podcasts A Skeptics Approach To Non-Duality / On Being Adopted FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted mater
Advaitism.com - One perspective on one; the non-duality view of existence; beingness without separateness.

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm

in the evolution of the sciences. Like the choice between competing political institutions, that between competing paradigms proves to be a choice between incompatible modes of co
Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts

MECHANISMS OF AGING

https://benbest.com/lifeext/aging.html

after age 110 [SCIENCE 280:855-860 (1998)]. (Medflies — Mediterranean fruit flies — show a plateau of linear rather than exponential death rate when 20-25% of
Background for understanding and possibly repairing the molecular and biochemical damage known as aging

Where Robot Cars (Robocars) Can Really Take Us

https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/

deployment. It's not science-fiction any more. The technology behind this is fascinating, but even more interesting are other questions that surround the robot car future. Those i


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