Michael Flynn's Blog, page 87
November 22, 2009
November 19, 2009
Pulling Down Europe's Jeans
A Gene Map of Europe
compared the similarities of the genomes of Western Europe. Two populations each from Germany, Italy, and Spain.
In the map, eignevector 1 represents variation north-to-south; eigenvector 2 represents variation east-to-west. It also has given me my first opportunity to use the term "eigenvector" in this journal.
compared the similarities of the genomes of Western Europe. Two populations each from Germany, Italy, and Spain.
In the map, eignevector 1 represents variation north-to-south; eigenvector 2 represents variation east-to-west. It also has given me my first opportunity to use the term "eigenvector" in this journal.
The area assigned to each population is proportional to the genetic variation within that population.
November 18, 2009
None Dare Call It Swine Flu
Swine Flu, We Hardly Knew Ye
Samples submitted to the CDC surveillance labs have gone from about 26,000 to 21,000 to just 13,000 over the past three weeks.
Of those samples, 10,076 tested positive two weeks ago, 7,557 last week, and 3,834 this week.
That's a 60% drop in positives over the past three weeks.
So, actual flu cases seem to have peaked. Question is: has the hysteria peaked? From London's Independent: Pandemic? What Pandemic? gives the following UK figures:
Samples submitted to the CDC surveillance labs have gone from about 26,000 to 21,000 to just 13,000 over the past three weeks.
Of those samples, 10,076 tested positive two weeks ago, 7,557 last week, and 3,834 this week.
That's a 60% drop in positives over the past three weeks.
So, actual flu cases seem to have peaked. Question is: has the hysteria peaked? From London's Independent: Pandemic? What Pandemic? gives the following UK figures:
65,000
Number of d...
November 17, 2009
Are the SA already organizing?
Does this bother anyone?
November 16, 2009
Science Marches On
SEX,
or
Positive Science Catches Up with Aristotle, Again
It is well-known that for Aristotle, finality was a fact of nature. That is, nature worked "always or for the most part" to an end. Physicists call that "minimizing the potential function" and speak of strange attractors and attractor basins and suchlike aetherial beings. The thing to remember is that without final causes, efficient causes make no sense. Why would A->B "always or for the most part" if there was nothing in A directing ...
or
Positive Science Catches Up with Aristotle, Again
It is well-known that for Aristotle, finality was a fact of nature. That is, nature worked "always or for the most part" to an end. Physicists call that "minimizing the potential function" and speak of strange attractors and attractor basins and suchlike aetherial beings. The thing to remember is that without final causes, efficient causes make no sense. Why would A->B "always or for the most part" if there was nothing in A directing ...
Can Animals be intelligent?
On the Distinction Between Two Forms of Knowing
This will ramble a bit. I added to this in bits and pieces during the day, and now I'm sleepy. This is a continuation of the earlier discussion about Intelligent Aliens.
You are what you eat!
Aristotle famously compared knowing to eating. In both cases, the organism takes in something outside of itself and makes it part of itself. In eating, say, an apple, the form of the apple is lost and the matter is incorporated into the eater's matter....
This will ramble a bit. I added to this in bits and pieces during the day, and now I'm sleepy. This is a continuation of the earlier discussion about Intelligent Aliens.
You are what you eat!
Aristotle famously compared knowing to eating. In both cases, the organism takes in something outside of itself and makes it part of itself. In eating, say, an apple, the form of the apple is lost and the matter is incorporated into the eater's matter....
November 15, 2009
Sartre Marches On
The Jean-Paul Sarte Cookbook
from pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html
The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook by Marty Smith.
From The Free Agent, March 1987 (a Portland, Oregon alternative newspaper).
We have recently been lucky enough to discover several previously lost diaries of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre stuck in between the cushions of our office sofa. These diaries reveal a young Sartre obsessed not with the void, but with food. Aparently Sartre, before discovering philosophy, had hoped to wri...
from pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html
The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook by Marty Smith.
From The Free Agent, March 1987 (a Portland, Oregon alternative newspaper).
We have recently been lucky enough to discover several previously lost diaries of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre stuck in between the cushions of our office sofa. These diaries reveal a young Sartre obsessed not with the void, but with food. Aparently Sartre, before discovering philosophy, had hoped to wri...
November 14, 2009
November 13, 2009
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