I am finally finishing a book that I found by chance, last year, in a beautiful second-hand English bookshop in Amsterdam. Death of a Hornet,…
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“Oh, yes. I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for…
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3 CommentsOne of the things I use to quote over and over when discussing about culture and philosophy is the Sokal affair. To make it simple,…
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5 CommentsYou would be excused for considering it a masterpiece of trolling. Exposed to it, people usually considered to be champions of rational thought became bags…
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19 CommentsScience is about being intellectually honest, first and foremost. Unfortunately, when money and glory are at stake, intellectual honesty can take the backseat. If not…
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1 CommentRichard Feynman famously asked “What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning…
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Leave a CommentI am seriously obsessed with the New Horizons encounter with Pluto and Charon – the first thing I do every morning nowadays is checking if…
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1 CommentToday this remarkable post by Google researchers is a sensation around, and for good reasons. It explains itself pretty well, but quickly speaking, here’s the…
Leave a CommentI am asking myself and yourself -I do not really know. It’s almost a year since the last post on this blog. Posting on a…
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