September 2010
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Epistemology and Ontology Among Friends
A week or so ago, I had an extended “conversation” on Twitter with two very old friends, Erik Davis and Ted Friedman. Erik’s a writer, specializing in “modern esoterica” which ranges from psychedelia and Led Zeppelin to Philip K Dick and Cthulu. Like me, Ted’s an academic, but he’s Professor of Communication at Georgia State…
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Consider a Spherical Cow (Company)
One of my old friends from graduate school, and a colleague to the present day, Lloyd Knox — whom you may remember from such cosmology hits as the Dark Energy Song — has started an initiative to create “short documentary videos to demonstrate the explanatory power of simple physical models and to help us understand…
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“Public Service Review”?
A few months ago, I received a call from someone at the “Public Service Review”, supposedly a glossy magazine distributed to UK policymakers and influencers of various stripes. The gentleman on the line said that he was looking for someone to write an article for his magazine giving an example of what sort of space-related…
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Arvo Pärt at 75
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Today, among other less auspicious anniversaries, is one very worth celebrating: Arvo Pärt’s 75th Birthday. The Estonian “holy minimalist” composer has been featured at the BBC Proms this summer, including performance of his first new symphony since the early 1970s, his take on the St John Passion, and my favorite, the short, mesmerising Cantus in…
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Science: Commercially Useful or Theoretically Outstanding?
Today was the next drip in the ongoing water torture that is the upshot of the government’s funding cuts on UK science: BIS Minister Vince Cable gave the coalition government’s first major speech on science. Rumors have been flying around of cuts of 20-30%, and we have been searching for any hints of the Government’s…
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