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Mon, 27 Aug 2007

Left Brain >The Memepool >Theories :
Science Fiction VS Fantasy
     Science Fiction is more democratic, complex, productive, deep, plausible, and mature than Fantasy, despite the latter's superior popularity.

     


Sun, 29 Jul 2007

Right Brain >Autobiography >Journal :
Why I Stopped Pursuing My MBA
     The short answer: Because Economics is not Science.

     


Thu, 26 Jul 2007

Right Brain >Bibliophilism >Great Books :
Foundation
     A Science Fiction myth, where Science and Capitalism are the protagonists.

     


Sun, 22 Jul 2007

Right Brain >Bibliophilism >Great Books :
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
     Jared Diamond's immensely thorough and complex book tackles the myriad reasons why extinct civilizations became that way.

     


Thu, 19 Jul 2007

Right Brain >Bibliophilism >Great Books :
The Selfish Gene
     Richard Dawkins' classic text is now considered an important part of the cannon of texts on Evolutionary Theory.

     


Mon, 16 Jul 2007

Left Brain >The Memepool >Theories :
Things are Getting Better
     Disregard the "common sense" notion that the world is going to pot and civilization is in decline.

     


Mon, 09 Jul 2007

Right Brain >Autobiography >Journal :
My Genetic Ancestry
     There are millions of years of human history that occurred before we started recording it. The Genographic project allows us to glimpse a bit of where our ancestors stopped as they migrated around the world.

     


Mon, 02 Jul 2007

Right Brain >Bibliophilism >Great Books :
Flatland
     A classic, morally-challenging tale from a world of two dimensions.

     


Mon, 18 Jun 2007

Right Brain >Cinephilism >Great Films :
Planetes
     A fascinatingly compeling drama about cleaning up the space in Earth's orbit and the near-future of space travel. Part I

     


Wed, 13 Jun 2007

Right Brain >Autobiography >Journal :
The Port Discover Science Center
     Science in my First Life. The coolest tourist attraction in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

     


Mon, 11 Jun 2007

Left Brain >Cognitive Schema >Hypotheses :
Science in Cyberspace
     Some thoughts about how the Information Age benefits science education.

     


Sun, 03 Jun 2007

Right Brain >Autobiography >Journal :
Science in Second Life
     A catalogue of my many explorations of science-education resources in Second Life. Today we visit the SL Science Center.

     


Fri, 01 Jun 2007

Left Brain >The Memepool >Disputations :
Dr. Laurence A. Moran is a Poopy Pants
     We interrupt your regularly-scheduled blog-post with a quasi-purile, semi-inchoherent missive on the Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto Dr. Moran's latest blog entry.

     


Thu, 10 May 2007

Right Brain >Bibliophilism >Great Books :
The Age of Reason
     Thomas Paine wrote the arguments that sparked the American Revolution. He also wrote one of the most damning critiques of scripture-based religion ever composed.

     


Thu, 26 Apr 2007

Left Brain >The Memepool >Disputations :
Anthropogenic Global Warming
     Why are we still debating this?

     



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