Technoscientific Disclosure

The ways that 21st Century humanity thinks about the world from at the intersection of technology & science.

August 18, 2012

Kentucky’s GOP lawmakers question standards for teaching evolution in schools – KansasCity.com

One wonders when it will ever end. “I think we are very committed to being able to take Kentucky students and put them on a report card beside students across the nation,” Givens said. “We’re simply saying to the ACT… Continue reading
August 3, 2012

Textifying to the Encompassing Good

Five years ago, after someone claimed that texting was a complete waste of time, I challenged myself: Would it not be a wonderful exercise in perennial philosophy to come up with aphorisms in 160 characters or less? I began to… Continue reading
July 28, 2012

A Nice Entrée into Object Oriented Ontology

Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Heather Duncan and Alex Reid concerning digital humanities, blogging, twitter, and to a lesser degree object-oriented ontology. With any luck it will be posted, alongside a host of other interviews… Continue reading
July 27, 2012

The Pointing Particle

The Higgs boson is important in the Standard Model because it implies the existence of a Higgs field, an otherwise invisible force field which pervades the entire universe. Unlike other kinds of force field (such as an electromagnetic or gravitational… Continue reading