Jane Austen can serve as a warning to scientists about confirmation bias.
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Jane Austen, Must Reading for Scientists
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Using Lucille Clifton to Defend the Arts
There’s a decline in English majors at elite universities. We use a Lucille Clifton poem to respond.
The Wood Tick’s Holy Grail Quest
Only an imaginative biologist like David Haskell would compare wood ticks with Camelot knights..
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The Deep (Not Scientific) Truth of Genesis
The Book of Genesis, like poetry, captures truths inaccessible to science.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bible, Genesis, Marilynne Robinson, Religion, Richard Dawkins Comments closed
Midwife, No Doc, at Grandson’s Birth
My new grandson had the birth experience denied Tristram Shandy: one where a midwife was in charge.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Birth, Doctors, Enlightenment, Laurence Sterne, Medicine, midwives, Tristram Shandy Comments closed
The Brainiest Detective and the Brain
How well did Sherlock Holmes anticipate future studies of the brain? Not very well.
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Rising Again to Dance
Chidi Okoye (Nigeria) Spiritual Sunday I refute Berkeley thus, Samuel Johnson famously said. And kicked a rock. Bishop Berkeley was the 18th century idealist philosopher who asked how we know reality is really there if we are dependent upon our senses for perceiving it. Is the rock in existence when we turn our backs? Johnson’s […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "To Be Alive", Bishop Berkeley, Dance, Gregory Orr, Lucille Clifton, materialism, Religion, Samuel Johnson, Spirituality Comments closed
