Tag Archives: Wild Speculation

Why Scientists Should Read Science Fiction

Posted on July 28, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Every so often, one of my (older) colleagues will find me reading a science fiction novel. “Ah, science fiction,” they will say. “I used to read quite a bit of that. Of course, I can’t really get in to it … Continue reading →

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In Which Our Heroine Reads Too Much Cory Doctorow and Thinks She Understands Economics

Posted on July 10, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Clarissa has raised a very interesting point at her blog with regard to economic models: The question of an alternative to capitalism is the central question that preoccupies most of philosophers today. If no such alternative exists, then criticizing capitalism … Continue reading →

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Why They Hate Us

Posted on July 9, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I’ve thought (too) long and (too) hard about the question of why radical feminists hate transsexual women. At first it seemed like a simple matter of a group of people prizing ideological purity over the inconvenient life experiences of other … Continue reading →

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Of Nightmares

Posted on July 3, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the TV series Community (mainly because I think the principle character, Jeff Winger, is an insufferable, unsympathetic asshole and I just wish that someone would punch him every time he speaks) but one … Continue reading →

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You Learn Something New Every Day

Posted on February 22, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I happened to stumble upon this particular Wikipedia Entry: ‘The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which the unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability … Continue reading →

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Predictions for 2012

Posted on December 31, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

Here are some predictions that I’m going to make concerning national and world affairs in the coming year. As you have probably guessed, I cannot see the future (and neither can you!), so you probably shouldn’t be betting the farm … Continue reading →

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bohm.

Posted on December 26, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

I suspect that, in the coming decades, the Bohm interpretation of Quantum Mechanics will end up making a bit of a come-back; and, when I say a “come-back,” understand that what I mean is that people will actually have to … Continue reading →

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FTL Neutrinos, Part 1: What They (Might) Mean

Posted on November 23, 2011 by thevenerablecorvex

Right, so last weak I enumerated all of the things that the apparent discovery of superluminal neutrinos definitively did not mean. Now, I will list some of the things which I think that it may mean, based purely on my … Continue reading →

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