The Respectful Empiricist

So the garden is planted, one cat disappearred and was replaced with another and it rains too much in Baltimore. Otherwise things are good in the last few days of spring.Finishing the garden and rehabbing my porch has cut into my webmaster time but soon new photos and a fresher background will appear.

Here is a short paper on the perils terminology and how it can be used.

 

I promise I'll read your email.

I am so docile and tame looking that no one knows the lion in my heart.

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It's All About Me

Another new season. It seems like every three months it is a new time of year.

 

 

 

If I could stop the hands of time would I? Probably not but it is not much of a testable proposition. Here are some thoughts about aging.

 

Bombycilla cedrorum

The Cedar Waxwing

I only get to see one of these a year on the average. I love the exotic coloration. This one was at Cromwell Valley on May 24 this year .Clicking the link above will let you know what they sound like.

Birding Diary Updates

 

At the National Center for Science Education, Eugenie Scott, Glenn Branch and others are fighting the good fight. The goal of the Center is to promote genuine teaching of science in the public schools.

You know new discoveries can be downright exhilarating. The oldest intact primate discovery became a book and you can read my thoughts about it here.

 

 

 

The truth is that of the many books about food out there, very few are actually any good. Most are pop chefs selling themselves more than food. Fromartz does not and here is my review

 

Well I maniacally followed the Kitzmiller suit in the fall of 2005; to such an extent that I couldn't absorb an ounce more of information about it...until last week when I read Lauri Lebo's book.

"You don't elect politicians to commit crines; you elect politicians to make your crimes legal." Matt Taibbi

"I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science.The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith." Richard Feynmen

“How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!” Charles Darwin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred's a good man with a good weekly computer newsletter that can only help.

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