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Another Astrological Test

another good test would be double-blind rectification – giving dates but not birth hours of known AA charts and seeing how well astrologers do at getting the right answer when they rectify the chart i suspect they will do very … Continue reading

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On St. Mr. Democritus

Democritus is only the go to name because he’s in the scientific mythology as one of the brief “ancient names” mentioned to add important Classical References to the heroes and acts of the early modern project of “Science” the way … Continue reading

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Pre-Hubble Galactic Astronomy

another funny aspect of the pre-Hubble cosmology is the shape of the milky way. when you have a modern notion of the basic cosmological unit being the galaxy and how there are enough of them that in universe-scale modelling you … Continue reading

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Thought Experiments

thought experiments were pretty cool when Einstein did them to break people out of Victorian mechanics mindset before spaceships had been invented yet, but over the 20th century those things devolved into something archonic. social science people, psychologists mostly, inducting … Continue reading

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Interview with a Selfish Gene

the selfish gene picture looks pretty funny when you look at any given gene in the molbio picture hello little gene who are you ᶦᵐ ᵂᴱᴱ¹ wow thats great so what are you up to like are you advocating for … Continue reading

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Biologist Writing

biologists have the worst attitude to acronyms in this paper we describe a novel phenomena in primates wherein a male primate inserts his penis (P) into the mouth (O) of a willing conspecific (Wc) typically but not necessarily female. We … Continue reading

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thinking of starting to call scientists and the scientific project “the Scientists” (floruerunt c. 1550 — 1950) to rhyme with “the Platonists” or “the Pythagoreans”

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The Gap Between Archimedes and Kepler in the Scientific Mythology

i think the part between Archimedes and Kepler is deleted, even today in a very multiracial and global because the myth of the history of science is really very shoddy and doesn’t withstand much investigation, like most kinds of scientific … Continue reading

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