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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I contributed to a Kickstarter for Swedish Machines from Free League, the latest book with brilliant artwork from Simon Stålenhag. I also bought second-hand copies of The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds from Springer, as well as Dinosaur in a Haystack, another collection of the natural history essays by #StephenJayGould that I am slowly collecting.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Astrobiology #Evolution #NaturalHistory @bookstodon

> "Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning." He cites J. B. Russel's 1991 Inventing the Flat Earth as showing that some supporters of the science vs. religion model misrepresent historical religious advocates.... 🧵
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en.wikipedia.orgThe Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox - Wikipedia
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Coiner of "Salami" for LLM AI, #StefanoQuintarelli has me reading of Stephen Jay Gould. Quinta's TSB (Techonological Solutionism Bias) post^1 sent me to _Wide Hats Narrow Minds_ :"phrenology" was a science? (Broca... ) Debating the value of LLM data centers shows me that people see the debate like C.P. Snow creating factions with his 1959 "Two Cultures" lecture. Now I see that #StephenJayGould responded to that too!^2

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blog.quintarelli.itTechnological Solutionism Bias: the most perilous form of AI Bias – Quinta’s weblog
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Stephen Jay Gould on the role of women:

“Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.”

Don't you think women will save the world ... again ... in November?

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Stephen Jay Gould (Happy Birthday) on science -

“In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”

“We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.”

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Darwinism and marxism. Two different, hugely important scientific theories that have re-shaped our world in the last two centuries. What do they have in common, and what are their differences?

Darwinismus a marxismus. Dvě odlišné, obrovsky důležité vědecké teorie, které změnily náš svět v posledních dvou stovkách let. Co mají společného, a jaké jsou jejich rozdíly?

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blogorgonopsid.blogspot.comDarwinismus a marxismus: Podobnosti a odlišnostiJe to již nějaký čas, co jsem na webu Marxists.org narazil na článek dánského astronoma, filozofa a socialistického revolucionáře Antona Pan...