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Somehow it still isn’t understood that programmers don’t produce their best work during any specific set of hours or only when they are in the office. Programming is an activity cognitively closer to philosophizing than it is to elementary math or physics. The best work doesn’t get done between 9am and lunch, with Sue from [...]

You’re up late in Widener Library on the Harvard campus, studying for your MCAT to get into Johns Hopkins Medical School. There’s a familiar face at one of the tables next to you — it’s that kid who never shows up for lecture and is constantly struggling through the same material that you and your [...]

Apparently my post about global warming or, rather, the lack thereof has new evidence behind it.
The Times Online of the UK published a headline recently: An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change. The findings of Henrik Svensmark seem to be on target with one of the authors I quoted in my previous [...]

If one takes the physicalist perspective — everything that exists is ultimately physical — then determinism seems a lot more plausible. Previously in Determinism and Free Will, I was dealing with the classic definitions of free will and determinism. These conceptions assume a distinction between the two, placing them in opposition to one another. The [...]

For a long time now I have heard people talk about global warming as some ominous event that’s looming in our near future. As political agendas usually do, this seemed partly plausible at first. When all of these people and the media are talking about something that seems possible, the general opinion of the population [...]

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 [...]

Admittedly I wasn’t clever enough to come up with the title, but rather I’m just mirroring it from the source: Noah Diamond: Don’t Fear The Reefer.
Noah gives a well-written overview of the history and current state of marijuana in the US. I think it’s high time (!) we look at our laws and make some [...]

I was thinking about the future. It seems to me that we are naturally progressing into more perfect beings. The technologies that are being developed today such as genetic manipulation, nanorobotics, and cosmetic surgery will eventually be available to anyone that can afford a hair dryer. What happens then when we’re all perfect people?
Right now [...]