Biology is Basic
As Theodosius Dobzhansky said: “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.”That is actually the title of an article Dobzhansky wrote for The American …
Philosophy
Make It Matter
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements’; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil …
Wise Independence
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not …
Honesty & Integrity
“My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.” –Henry David ThoreauLong-term, engage neither thought without …
Stop. Look. Listen.
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” –Ghandi Yes. Live well. Act wisely. Think deeply. Learn logic slowly and steadfastly.
In Running, As in Logic, the True is the Whole
In “How Kelly Starrett and Japan Fixed My Running Form” (Men’s Journal), Adharanand Finn wrote:To run well is a skill, and to do it well …
History, Ecology, and Human Height and Health
In Human Height, Max Roser says:Human height is determined by a combination of genetics and environmental factors making it an active area of research in …
Aristotle on Biology
From Aristotle’s Biology, by Dr. James Lennox, on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”Aristotle was able to accomplish what he did in biology because he had …
Lennox on Aristotle on Inquisitiveness
“Aristotle on the Epistemic Centrality of Curiosity” is an abstract, interesting philosophic thought (but not too abstruse). Description of talk by Dr. Lennox (bio 1, …
A Thought On Good Thinking
Having unconnected knowledge of this and that is not at all the same — it is a junkyard. Having mere words is not the same …