Tag Archives: Nonsense

Sally Ride Shirked Her Cookie-Baking, Baby-Making Duties By Living an Exciting Life

Posted on July 31, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Sometimes, in the dark fringes of the Internet, I will encounter something of such unspeakable, singular stupidity that I will have no choice but to simply wave my hand and dismiss it as parody. And then there are times when … Continue reading →

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How Not To Write Comprehensibly

Posted on July 26, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Here’s a new rule by which I think that everyone should at least try to abide in their blogging: unless you are writing for exclusively specialists, whenever you make use of an initialism, take a few seconds to spell-out what … Continue reading →

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Science: Why The Market Can’t Handle (all of) It

Posted on July 11, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

The less-intelligent sort of libertarians* seem to view the market the way that children view their mother’s credit card: as far as they are concerned, it is basically a “get-out-paying-for-things-free” card for governments. Thus a government need never spend money … Continue reading →

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Let’s All Hear It For the Idle Rich

Posted on April 30, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

If I were born rich (by which I mean wealthy enough that I knew that I would never, under any remotely likely circumstances, have to face homelessness or starvation), I know precisely what I would do with my life: I … Continue reading →

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In Defense of Uselessness

Posted on April 29, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

If there’s one trend that I absolutely cannot stand, it is the functionalist view that every course of action pursued by Humans should necessarily serve some sort of goal, or practical application. This, of course, rapidly gives rise to the … Continue reading →

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In *My* Ideal World, You Wouldn’t Exist Either.

Posted on April 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I have noted in the past that my studies as a physicist are inherently apolitical. This is a simple consequence of the fact that the subject matter with which I deal is abstract. Matter and energy, space and time are … Continue reading →

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My Thesis Project: A Jargon-Free Explanation

Posted on March 22, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

In order to conclude the Jargon Trilogy (and also because I think it will be good for my personal understanding), I would like to try to explain the substance of my thesis project under the assumption that my reader has … Continue reading →

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The Downside to the Having Your Jargon Taken Seriously

Posted on March 22, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

…Of course, there is a downside to the percieved authority of science. Namely, even though people recognize its authority, they don’t bother to try to understand it. As a result, a great many people apparently find it impossible to distinguish … Continue reading →

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Of Jargon and the Two Cultures

Posted on March 22, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Furthering my earlier points about the rivalry between the Sciences and the Humanities, I’ve noticed an apparent inequality between the way that the two are percieved by society at large. Namely, there appears to be a widespread belief amongst the … Continue reading →

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