Tag Archives: science

Freeman Dyson on Global Warming

Required reading for the day, kids One thing about Freeman Dyson is that he is genuinely philosophic. He’ll say things that are certifiably nuts – his old solution to the problem of nuclear war was to have governments agree to use up all the nukes to propel a spacecraft deep into space. And he has

A Guide To Astrology

For some friends in Singapore interested in this sort of thing. All ideas below can be found in some form in particular 16th c. Florentine works. 1. Astrology is the determination of the stars, and how they may relate to the life of man. One wonders if stars are actually spirits, intelligences in and of

On Football, Determinism, Science and Utopia

My brother and I got into an argument that was ostensibly about American football. He argued that there are coaches who have the best schemes, bar none, and that other coaches are only as good as they measure up to those schemes. Furthermore, such schemes emphasize the interchangeability of players: find the right players for