Here is an interview with Hayek by John O’Sullivan (yes, the John O’Sullivan of O’Sullivan’s First Law.) Some time ago I posted a rather poor quality version of it – this one seems OK. This version I found via The Austrian Economists blog.
The list of speakers for EPISTEME 2009 to be held at Northwestern is now available. Accommodation and travel details here.
The latest issue of Seed features an article entitled “The Hive Mind” by Benjamin Phelan: The selfless behavior of ants, bees, and wasps has confounded scientists for more than a century. Is the question a red herring or the key to a new evolutionary synthesis? Speaking…
The MOA CFP has been extended to May 15.
I came across this article in The New York Times. January 11, 2009 I’m pasting it in since access may well be denied. My Genome, My Self By STEVEN PINKER ONE OF THE PERKS of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself. I have been tested for…
The post-lecture reception for Ruth at NEI. L-R: NEI director, David Livingtone Smith, Ruth, MWQ, NEI co-director Rob Haskell. Ruth graciously dealing with her fan club. See Larry Shapiro’s wonderful “intellectual love-letter.” Larry writes: Recently I was asked to deliver a comic paper about Ruth Millikan on the twenty fifth anniversary of her Language, Thought,…
Alexander Waugh’s The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War reviewed in the latest The New Yorker. I cannot play when you are in the house, as I feel your skepticism seeping towards me from under the door!
A human brain has 10,000,000,000 cells so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human. If the human population is 6,760,000,000 (2009) and the ant population is 1 quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1999). If my mathematics is correct the brain cell count of the ant population is nearly 4 times that…
manwithoutqualities 