Friday, March 25, 2016

Et in Arcadia Ego

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Monday, March 14, 2016

The Future of Recursivity

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Hello, readers! I'm pleased to announce that I've joined freethoughtblogs.com , home of P. Z. Myers and other interesting blogger...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

James Tour's First Talk: Nanotechnology and God

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The dilemma of the scientist who is also a devout Christian* is clear: on the one hand, in his/her professional life the scientist must e...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016

The Pascal Lecture, James Tour, and Shallit's Law

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Well, once again it's time for that annual embarrassment at the University of Waterloo, the Pascal lecture series. Our university ac...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

What Scalia Was Truly Like

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If you want to get a feel for what the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia was like, you can do no better than to read this long int...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

My Scalia Experience

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Now that Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has died, one can find tributes to him everywhere, even from some liberals . He is being l...
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Yet Another Dubious Journal

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From a recent e-mail message I received: Dear Dr. Jeffrey Shallit, Greetings from Graphy Publications We kindly invite you to join ...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Reproducibility in Computer Science

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There has been a lot of discussion lately about reproducibility in the sciences, especially the social sciences. The result that garnered...
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

More Silly Philosopher Tricks

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Here's a review of four books about science in the New York Times . You already know the review is going to be shallow and uninform...
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Friday, February 05, 2016

3.37 Degrees of Separation

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This is pretty interesting: Facebook has a tool that estimates the average number of intermediate people needed to link you, via the sho...
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Friday, January 29, 2016

Yet More Bad Creationist Mathematics

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It's not just biology that creationists resolutely refuse to understand. Their willful ignorance extends to many other fields. Take ...
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Saturday, January 09, 2016

Our Car's Fibonacci Odometer

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Been waiting for this for 11 years, and it finally happened!
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Saturday, January 02, 2016

You Don't Have to Be a Sociopath to Become a Theist....

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...but apparently it helps, at least judging from this video. Several things come to mind when I watched this. First, if David Wood...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

10th Blogiversary!

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Ten years ago, this blog, Recursivity, was born . I've had a lot of fun with it, even though I never really had very much time to ...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Merry Kitzmas!

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It's been ten years since the landmark decision of Kitzmiller v. Dover was handed down, the case that exposed the religious fraud o...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Polish Immigrants a German Problem?

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Only if the immigrants are moose .
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

1000 citations for "Automatic Sequences"

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I don't normally like to use this blog to advertise my own achievements, but this one was too fun to pass up. Back in 2003, Jean-Pau...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats

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Here is a chart that illustrates, better than anything I've seen, the fundamental difference between the two US political parties. ...
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Discovery Institute Lies Again!

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Oh, look! The Dishonesty Discovery Institute is out with yet another video . What a thrill. Don't bother watching it, though. Th...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

More Sprinkler Moose

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Devoted readers of this blog (are there any?) will recall this post from 2008 with baby moose playing in a lawn sprinkler. Apparently i...
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