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Star Larvae: Dis Cover Unworthy of Discover
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Sunday, March 03, 2013. Dis Cover Unworthy of Discover. Notice anything odd about this magazine cover? The cover, which appears on Discover's March, 2013, issue, looks like something dredged from a 1950s science-fiction serial. A guy in a suit lifting off to his next sales meeting represents Evolution's Next Stage? Does it get any more pedestrian, or vintage, than that? What's the next breakthrough —. Posted by Star Larvae. The inhum...
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Star Larvae: Culture as Phenotype and Evolution's Crystal Ball
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Culture as Phenotype and Evolution's Crystal Ball. The issues are in the tissues. A massage therapist once shared with me that piece of trade wisdom. She was making a point about the interplay between mental and physical discomforts. She was not the first to link the two. Scottish Psychiatrist R. D. Laing. The Newly Arrived Blastocyst. Laing also cites correspondence between Freud and Jung in which the psy...
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Star Larvae: Secular Totem: Natural Selection
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Monday, December 08, 2014. Secular Totem: Natural Selection. During the past few weeks I'd been enjoying an engaging exchange about evolution theory on an online science forum. Things seemed to be going well, but then * Kablooey. For the curious, you can judge for yourself whether my comments are Trash-Can worthy:. Posted by Star Larvae. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Social Media = Social Mediocrity:.
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Star Larvae: Toward Radical Organicism: A Rant on the Philosophy of Nature as Creature
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Friday, June 19, 2015. Toward Radical Organicism: A Rant on the Philosophy of Nature as Creature. Nonetheless, such speculations invite philosophizing:. Can a nonphysical anything wield intelligence? Can intelligence reside in a mere, albeit complex, molecule? Cutaway illustration of the living cell. Neither divine artifact nor improbable chemical machine. We have “intelligent” and “design,” “master gene...Of chance. Nature is no...
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Star Larvae: Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs): Major Collision at the Intersection of Evolution and Development
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Tuesday, June 09, 2015. Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs): Major Collision at the Intersection of Evolution and Development. Q: How does a fertilized egg cell give rise to such a variety of cell types as compose the body of a complex organism? A: That fertilized egg cell’s DNA arrived pre-loaded with the genetic information needed to craft the specialized cell types that compose the body of that complex organism. The science of compara...
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Star Larvae: Natural Selection is Dead. Long Live Evolution.
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Sunday, January 27, 2013. Natural Selection is Dead. Long Live Evolution. Lecture: Evolution in Four Dimensions. The conventional answer is natural selection, which is the assertion that random phenotypic variation, which bestows "fitness advantages" disproportionately to particular individuals of a given species in a local population relative to their cohorts, accounts for differential reproductive success among those individuals...
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Star Larvae: The Braindead Megaphone. Or not.
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Sunday, July 21, 2013. The Braindead Megaphone. Or not. Saunders acknowledges that the media's braindead incantations are agenda driven: "[. . . ] it's clear that a significant and ascendant component of that voice has become bottom-dwelling, shrill, incurious, ranting, and agenda-driven." So, he's got himself into a contradiction, though you have to untangle the essay to get a good look at it. But these poor toilers are just reciter...
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Star Larvae: Pondering the Implausible: Conspiracy Skepticism and the Slothful Induction
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Saturday, November 10, 2012. Pondering the Implausible: Conspiracy Skepticism and the Slothful Induction. If you believe a lie then learn you’ve been lied to, you feel betrayed, embarrassed and angry. Maybe you’re not the shrewd operator, after all. Maybe you’re just a chump. This realization produces a discomfort that psychologists call cognitive dissonance. US troops and their private-sector surrogates occupy more foreign turf.
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Star Larvae: Social Darwinism is Alive and Well, and it Dwells Between the Covers of this Book.
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Social Darwinism is Alive and Well, and it Dwells Between the Covers of this Book. 8212; Henry George, Progress and Poverty. And Brave New World. Tyler Cowen conjures his own bleak, dystopian future for humankind. Writing fiction is not his intent, but we have to hope that fiction he writes. Evidently a hurried sequel to Stagnation. Cowen offers up education as a tool that sub-millionaires might use to eleva...
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Star Larvae: Trailing Psalms
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This blog provides commentary on the ideas presented at starlarvae.org. Sunday, April 12, 2015. Now feathery, wild. Blooms, a fog of spicules. New geometry of sky. A vault of heavy metals,. The Kubrick sky,. The spinal dust . . . . Splits a sky’s. Across veiny, steel wool. Nudged to horizon's edge. Dispersal fields from hard. Pilots feed the new blanket,. Of silken gauze, rended. Posted by Star Larvae. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Social Media = Social Mediocrity:. Ontoge...
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