Afternoon Inquisition

  • Afternoon Inquisition 01.07.09

    I’m stealing today’s AI from John Brockman who poses The Edge Annual Question each year. The question for 2009 is: What will change everything? A few suggestions posed in the article The Big Question include climate change, studies showing that animals have emotions and feel pain, a general sense of trepidation (currently affecting the economy, for example), and the emergence…

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  • Afternoon Inquisition 1.3

    In the course of perusing the comments on Masala Skeptic’s now infamous Twilight review, I noticed the following from commenter coreyjf (whose blog assures us that he is not in fact the ’80s actor of the same name): …as a former teacher, I don’t care what they are reading as long as they keep doing it. At the very least…

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  • Afternoon Inquisition 12.31.08

    I’ve always found New Year’s to be an arbitrary “holiday”. For all practical purposes, it’s just another day, with no special attribute that makes it objectively superior for turning over a new leaf. I suppose it’s a good excuse to drink, but those aren’t hard to find on even the most ordinary day. Humans’ love of round numbers has been…

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  • Afternoon Inquisition 12.30

    I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog that I’m a podcast junkie.  Today one of my favorite podcast authors, Scott Sigler, releases his second hardcover book, Contagious. It’s the sequel to Infected, and if you haven’t already, you should read both.  He’s a fiction writer who uses hard science, not the supernatural, to spin his thrillers into an un-put-down-able…

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  • Afternoon Inquisition 12.23

    With the newest episode of the Skepchick Podcast (the last for 2008) out today, my question is related and simple: How are you, dedicated Skepchick reader, creative person, good citizen brave & true (and, of course, snappy dancer): How are you fighting the War on Christmas?

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