John S. Wilkins

I like Kaylee’s answer. Her family is God and Ms Clary

Photo of theoretical physicist Brian Greene in front of a blackboard full of differential equations.

One of the best-known proponents of string theory, Brian Greene, explains why it remains the most comprehensive theory for understanding the fundamental laws of nature. But can it even be tested? It’s Skeptic Check: String Theory on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪

Listen here: buff.ly/SOmv0qH

#podcast

Everyone spends the exact same amount of time, being the age you are (except the last year, probably).

Krauss, not to put too fine a point on it, is a complete c***.

Which one will order the hit?

Documenting the diversity of all living organisms..
#NHM #Systematics #Biodiversity

To celebrate the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated a special open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers.

Next highlight: Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record 🦎 Cisneros (2008) buff.ly/kaZ20P1 #PaleoSky #2025SVP

I believe Chuck D explained all that in his book.
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, 1881

Great video from @pbseons.bsky.social about Darwin and his work on barnacles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYu...

#histsci #HPS

And why not? 😉

Can’t quit what you never did

yep. and while it isn’t the whole reason Schumer and Gillibrand also share this belief

It's always eugenics....

I meant to add “in the first half of the 19th century “

Pretty well everyone in the Anglophonium wanted their science to be Newtonian. And a healthy number of continentals.

All arts is memes

Unless you’re a biologist, you don’t

Satanism is just a revival of Ahrimanism...

When did the canons of Westminster become fundamentalists?

I'm in another place now... Instead of going narrow but deep, I'm going broad but shallow. Unless you'd like to hear about the development of biosystematics in the mid19th century?

Thanks David. I can chase it up through my university library.

When I first got interested in philosophy I undertook to read the entire Kierkegaard corpus. I managed it, and for a long time I had nearly all the books in my library. It was 50 years ago! Oy

This is a terrific talk by Jon Ablett on the Linnean Society's shell collection, replete with a delightfully rude account of sequential hermaphroditism in Crepidula fornicata involving cheap sperm and Roman prostitutes (there are pseudopenises too!). Well worth watching . . . 🌈🐚 #queer #sex #nature

They're just winging it.

2/2
I said, and remain convinced 220 years later, that his beggars the meaning of "intelligence" so that rocks that collect at the based of a hill are intelligent.

Absolutely right. I once had a run-in with a rather prestigious biologist who was arguing hat colonies of bacteria are highly intelligence, when all the evidence he adduced showed only that colonies were adapting to gradients of food molecules.

1/2

Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard in the same room would annihilate each other. Is Bergson acting as a moderator?

John Cleese as leader of the Judean People's Front (or is that the People's Front of Judea?) asking "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro: “I ordered the militarisation of the entire country starting at 4pm by land, sea, and air.”

Never mske tyops myslef

Not well versed with n medical terminology but I thought it was “etiology”, or if you like diphthongs, “aetiology“, from _aitos_, account or cause.