Simon Olling Rebsdorf's Blog, page 3
October 10, 2019
The Story of Us
Wait But Why’s Tim Urban parses and transmits complex ideas for us all. So, just read this. And take your time. https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-... Advertisements
June 13, 2019
Politik og videnskab
[This one is in Danish, sorry] Hvordan får vi opdraget politikerne og resten af befolkningen til at lytte mere til videnskaben? Et af mine specialer er videnskabsstudier, og de kredse diskuterer livligt det svære spørgsmål. Præmis 1: ”Det er et ubetinget gode, at politikerne og resten af befolkningen skal opdrages til at lytte mere til … Continue reading Politik og videnskab →
March 14, 2019
Respecting your peers
Respecting others is sometimes almost impossible. Right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism, religious or political fundamentalism, anti-science, flat-eathers, etc. But in my view, they should all be respected from the outset. With antisemitism on the rise in France now (parts of the yellow west movement), and anti-Islamic sentiments proliferating elsewhere, I find it immensely important to try … Continue reading Respecting your peers →
March 6, 2019
The rest of your life on a paper sheet
For those in here who never saw this little article, I decided to repost it: I am 47 years old. With healthy living, great luck and good genes, I will live to the age of 96, perhaps even older. There are approximately 50 years left. Or 2,600 weeks, signified by 2,600 squares on this A4 … Continue reading The rest of your life on a paper sheet →
February 28, 2019
Future Science Forecasting
by Simon Olling Rebsdorf* Natural sciences, such as physics, astronomy and biology, have developed explosively in the 20th century. Naturally, we have no reliable knowledge of how they will develop in the future, and we can only guess about future discoveries. While there are extremely reliable predictions of nature based on scientific theories, there is … Continue reading Future Science Forecasting →
January 25, 2019
The Delusion of Escaping Earth to Space
Don’t ever expect mass emmigration from the Earth. Nowhere in our solar System offers a climate just as ?? as in the Antarctic or the top of Mount Everest. I think it is a dangerous delusion to think that space offers an escape from Earth’s problems. Dealing with climate change on Earth is a doddle … Continue reading The Delusion of Escaping Earth to Space →
January 3, 2019
Happy New Year!
The future is always beginning now. — Mark Strand I wish you all a Happy New Year. Let’s try to keep up our hopes that we will succeed in becoming good ancesters! Thank you all cordially for following my weblog! Best wishes, Simon Advertisements
November 27, 2018
The Natural Philosophy of Nicole Oresme
By Simon Olling Rebsdorf 1. Introduction The focal point of this essay is the later Middle Ages in France, in particular the philosophical undercurrents of late scholasticism at the Paris University in the mid-thirteenth Century. Today, we would probably prefer the term ‘science’ to cover the meaning of what was then known as ‘natural philosophy’. … Continue reading The Natural Philosophy of Nicole Oresme →
October 23, 2018
History for Atheists – written by an atheist
The Great Myths series Doing all we can to put emotion, wishful thinking and ideology aside when examining any subject is an important approach to life. We should acquaint ourselves as thoroughly as possible with the relevant scholarship and take account of any consensus of experts in any field before taking a position. This is … Continue reading History for Atheists – written by an atheist →
October 4, 2018
The Possibility of Living in the Ever-Present “Now” in Spite of Time
Perhaps the present moment is an illusion in that the moment you cite it, it is the past. Yet all we have are a series of present-state moments. The past is fiction as well as the future. If we fully focus on the here-and-now, are we as attendant to the needs and possibilities that may … Continue reading The Possibility of Living in the Ever-Present “Now” in Spite of Time →
