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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. This seemed tangentially related to my post about HuffPost’s new commenting policy and subsequent discussion. If you’re not already reading Saturday Morning...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The Adventures Of Philosophically Inclined...
I know I already plugged SMBC this week, but today’s post is kind of cool in a meta sort of way. (Click through to read the whole thing; WARNING: the punchline could be considered obscene.) Saturday...
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SMBC: Momentary molecular arrangements
Today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is too relevant to this blog’s conversations for me to pass up calling your attention to it. Click through to see the full size version. via Saturday Morning...
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SMBC:Revolution: A Guide
SMBC has been on a roll lately with insightful posts. Anyone struggling against the establishment should ponder this one. Click through to get the full size version. via Saturday Morning Breakfast...
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SMBC: A fable
As is often the case, Zach Weiner hits it out of the park with this observation. I’ve read a lot of history, and I’m struck by how often this type of pattern emerges. Click through to see the full...
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SMBC: Why the universe isn’t deterministic
This is a bit whimsical but seems relevant to some of our recent conversations on determinism. Click through to see the full sized version. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Tagged: Determinism,...
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SMBC: Sperm cosmology
All kinds of ways to interpret this one. (Click through to see full sized version.) via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Tagged: Cosmology, Multiverse, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, SMBC,...
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SMBC: You can’t prove it isn’t true
via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. I expect to see this on Ancient Aliens soon since it meets their criteria. Tagged: Ancient Aliens, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner
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One Plus One Equals Two. ALLEGEDLY. — The Nib — Medium
Somewhat related to some of our recent conversations about mathematics. Click through to see the full comic. via One Plus One Equals Two. ALLEGEDLY. — The Nib — Medium. Tagged: Mathematics, Saturday...
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SMBC: The evil mathematical universe
A slightly different point of view on the mathematical universe, as only Zach Weiner can deliver. (Click through to see the full sized version.) via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Tagged:...
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SMBC: Math and the universe
The question I’ve asked multiple times lately. Is the universe math, or math the universe? (Click through for full sized version.) via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Tagged: Math, Philosophy,...
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SMB: A psychology experiment and nature versus nurture
I think this ties in rather well with my comments on beauty yesterday. Click through to see the full sized version. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Tagged: Anthropology, Beauty, Human nature,...
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SMBC: We’re constantly dying
via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Of course, while we’re alive, new parts of us are constantly coming into being. But for adults, the child we once were died long ago. That is one of the...
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SMBC: Surpassing the Turing test in order to assess moral standing
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SMBC: Free will and personal responsibility
Click through to see full sized version. I’ll have to remember this strategy. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Tagged: Free will, Personal responsibility, Philosophy, Saturday Morning Breakfast...
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SMBC: Technicality Club
Click through for full sized version. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Hmmm. They never even got to the technicality that Technicality Club can’t be discussed at Technicality Club meetings....
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SMBC: The curse of knowledge
Click through for full sized version. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. This strip reminds me of something I heard someone say in a presentation on communication strategies several years ago. It...
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Who was the first person to have an afterlife?
Click through for full sized version and the red button caption. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. The idea that only humans have an afterlife has always been one that I find interesting. If...
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SMBC: Proof altruism exists?
(Click through for full sized version and for the red button caption.) via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Of course, as we discussed on the Selfish Gene post, even if we are acting completely...
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I would draw a similar graph for FTL and knowledge of physics
Click through for full sized version and the red button caption. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Sometimes, learning science means discovering the constraints reality puts on us, and that part...
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