God’s blog – comments on the creation?

UPDATE: Pretty pleased with what I’ve come up with in just six days. Going to take tomorrow off. Feel free to check out what I’ve done so far. Suggestions and criticism (constructive, please!) more than welcome. God out.

COMMENTS:

Disagree with the haters out there who have a problem with man having dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle of the earth, and so on. However, I do think it’s worth considering giving the fowl of the air dominion over the cattle of the earth, because it would be really funny to see, like, a wildebeest or whatever getting bossed around by a baby duck.

The whole piece here.

Dead salmon brain scans

Four psychologists, in an effort to show that interpreting brain scan results requires careful correction for scanning errors, took a dead fish and showed it pictures of people in emotional states. “The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photograph must have been experiencing.” Yes, parts of the brain “lit up”, but the researchers seem reluctant to conclude from this that dead fish engage in perspective-taking tasks. See the poster of their results here.

PS – Their title for their presentation is hilarious: “Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction.” (And, by the way, “Dead Salmon Brain Scans” is an excellent name for a rock band.)

“Do we have a right to knowledge?”

The library is celebrating Open Access week, and is featuring a panel discussion on this question with ethicist Erica Holberg, physicist Charlie Torre, and USU Press Director Michael Spooner. Each will share his or her unique perspective on our right to knowledge and the impact open access has on his or her discipline. The discussion will be held in Library 101 at 4:30 on Wednesday, October 26th.

Spring PHIL 4900

Students may have seen that I will be teaching a PHIL 4900 Special Topics Seminar this spring (MWF 1:30-2:20).  The course will be geared to philosophy majors and will be run as a seminar.  Our topic will be Aristotle.  I am still sorting out the specific readings, but I expect we will read selections from Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Physics, Ethics, and Politics.

* Modification:  I have ordered the Metaphysics, Physics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De Anima (On the Soul). *