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I recently bought a book on a whim from Borders: Socrates Café (which is strange for me, because I hardly ever buy books, much less on whims, much less from bookstores). I must say that I’m glad I picked it up. It’s not the prose or the subject matter (philosophy) that are revolutionary or interesting, [...]

As Evan Robinson explains in his article, Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work, the notion of “crunch time” was thrown away a long time ago in the industrial sector. Unfortunately, it now exists in the software development industry and might even be the norm.
I think the reasons for the prevalence of this practice in software come [...]

There has been more talk lately about bringing creationism into the science classroom, to be taught alongside evolution as a supposed “alternate theory”, but there is a major problem with this proposal; namely that creationism is not a scientific theory at all. I leave the details to Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne.
Findings from a recent [...]