Posts in the "scientist & skeptic" Category...
scientist & skeptic, skepdad, weird & whimsical »
Funny is more of an apt description for what our minds will convince us of when we need to find a pattern or an explanation for something.
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fatherhood, scientist & skeptic, skepdad »
But “very cool” to a thirty-something year old science geek and “very cool” to a five year old girl are very different things, indeed.
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…all of it leading to me digging out my Sears-brand Junior Microscope Set from back when I was a young’un, dusting it off and seeing what happened.
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About a month ago I wrote a short post about reading through some of my old Calvin and Hobbes comics. By some miracle of the unintended combination of the right words and the information reliability score of this blog, that page …
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scientist & skeptic, skepdad, weather »
Ah, June… Summer is at our doorstep, the days are (almost all of them) seeming to get a little bit longer, and for the second year in a row I am partaking in my daily blogging exercise, marginally focused along a …
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food & drink, opinions & venting, scientist & skeptic, skepdad »
Plato’s famous “Allegory of the Cave” offers us a Matrix-likened philosophy of people trapped in an illusion cast as mere fire-lit shadows of a bigger reality. Those who escape, we are told, return to the cave to inform the others but …
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fatherhood, scientist & skeptic, skepdad »
As a holiday gift, I bought The Girl a light-up replica of the moon. It now hangs from a small nail on her bedroom wall. Its diameter is roughly thirty centimeters of textured, semi-translucent plastic and via a variety of functions …
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Our breakfast cereal is narrated by the morning news while the Girl is dripping honey down the front of her pajamas. But then such a mess is nothing compared to usual coverage of overseas protests, international economics, and local traffic reports …
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books & reading, scientist & skeptic, skepdad »
There were a trilogy of science fiction books that I read back in my high school and university days called the “Requiem for Homo Sapiens” by an American author named David Zindell. I don’t really have a solid gauge on their …
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