It’s been quite a year for Donald Trump, a narcissist the likes of which the world has never seen, except he’s missing a few awards.
Science
Happy Flying This Weekend – Who Needs All Those Meteorologists?
The GAO reports that the US regional air traffic control centers are dangerously short of meteorologists. What could possibly go wrong?
Alito Versus Law And Science
Alito is a partisan crank married to a partisan crank
Socially Normative Agency
Human agency is formed and controlled socially, through family and community.
Great Apes As Rational Agents
The long evolutionary step to the great apes includes rationality and new psychological processes.
Goal-Directed Agency and Intentional Agency
Index to posts in this series Lizards Lizards are a representative of the first category of agency according to Michael Tomasello in his book The Evolution Of Agency. As with the other categories, Tomasello focuses on the way lizards forage for prey. C. elegant, the...
Free Will, Agency, And Evolution
Agency as a feedback control mechanism.
Space Cowboys
The Billionaire Blastoffs, are they good or bad?
Open Thread: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Mars Landing
We’re waiting now for NASA’S latest Mars rover craft to land on the red planet. What a blast to focus on future-looking science!
On Mountains, Mountain Climbing, and COVID-19
The language of mountains is all over the COVID-19 coverage, from the talk of “reaching the peak” of infections to the euphoria of “hitting the plateau.” But here’s the thing: we’re still on the mountain, and the descent is much more dangerous than the climb.
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