The Banana Peel Project

Here’s a few of my favorite blog postings and news stories from the last couple days.
What Philosophy of Science and “Postmodernism” Have in Common [Evolving Thoughts]

An interesting post tying together the last hundred years or so of the philosophy of science from Fleck to Latour.  Objectivity and realism, truth and symmetry, intentional fallacies, and respect […]

Here’s the text of the commercial:
You know when you feel the weight of sadness.  You may feel exhausted, hopeless, and anxious.  Whatever you do, you feel lonely and don’t enjoy the things you once loved.  [Symptoms persist every day for at least two weeks.]  Things just don’t feel like they used to.  These are some […]

This cute clip from Stephen Colbert has been circulating pretty profusely, so I thought I’d pass it along.  It’s a clever and (as always) soberly accurate piece of sarcasm on the latest in child-rearing technologies.

[via Neuroanthropology]