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Daily Archives: October 18, 2009
Daniel Dennett: the Vanquisher of “Deepity” Religion—and Poetry?
The Daniel Dennett deepity slide that Jerry Coyne took a picture of here is one that I wrote into my notebook (I was at the same conference). A deepity, according to Dennett, “is a proposition that seems to be profound … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, language, philosophy, physics, poems, poetry, psychology, the ontological mystery
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Whoa Mule, Whoa!
I ain’t got time to kiss you now, the mule is run away! According to the video poster at YouTube, this song was played “under the trees next to the Conestoga river. Lancaster County Park PA. August 2 2008.” Nicely … Continue reading
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Tagged banjos, bluegrass, happiness, life, mules, music, Pennsylvania
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The New Prometheuses? Are Physicists on the Verge of Stealing the Secrets of the “God Particle” (the Higgs Boson’s Mass) from Heaven?
Stealing fire from heaven. The most important physics experiment in the history of, well, all of history, is slated to take place over the late winter of 2009 and the first few months of 2010. This is when the CERN particle … Continue reading
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Tagged God, god particle, hadron collider, higgs bozon, physics, Prometheus, science, the big bang, the emperor has no clothes
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Prometheus Unbound 