Science began as a logical and reasoned inquiry into how Nature works. Isaac Newton and gravity always comes to mind first with me. You’ll note it’s tied together with mathematics, and how many times have we seen in news or…
Author: vassar
The Plan, or How Shite Happens (Anonymous)
(Sent to me several years ago, and just re-found while going through my stack of stuff.) (Deep and prescient on more than one label) In the beginning was the Plan. And then came the Assumptions. And the Assumptions were without…
The Iffiness in Science that makes Everything a Coin Flip
I have several fits-and-starts in my stack of stuff, all centering around scientific debates not just about how human history is written, but how human achievement is defined, going back long before history could be written. Just pausing to think…