I have been watching a brilliant show produced by the BBC called “Wonders of Life”, a 5-part series about the origins and functionality of life, narrated by Dr. Brian Cox, whose mouth my wife takes issue with. As you can imagine, the program starts with a description, using the current scientific wisdom, of the beginning […]
Numbers…How Do They Work!?
As usual, I was sitting here drinking coffee and thinking about things this morning…this morning oatmeal was also involved. When I just sit and stare, I find all sorts of strange things go on in my mind, noise in the internal dialog. These things take many forms, but they are usually predictable. One thing that […]
The Knowing Problem
A few days ago, I posted something about what I called the consensus problem, the idea that many people have that scientists have to completely agree on something in order for the idea to be accepted. There is, however, an even deeper issue involved and that is what it even means to “know” something is […]