Still getting our footing here at Dawdler’s HQ. Hence this klunky transition back we’ve been doing since we dropped out after American Thanksgiving. This episode is a long short. Not much structure like a typical long episode, but it is what it is, right? This time we use a twitter Read more…
Tastes like chicken! What does? Dinosaurs… Happy Harrahdays, -Dawdlers
Yeats repeats “a terrible beauty is born” in his poem “Easter, 1916”. The poem expresses the emotional limbo of Yeats as he grapples with the post World War I Irish rebellion in response to the broken promise of Irish liberation. Out of acts of violence, comes the hope of freedom. Read more…
We are as much our biases as we are our perception to others. Fallibility. It works in mysterious ways. This week the Dawdlers present a discussion from an earlier time than the present moment. It’s a conversation they’ve been meaning to have but not really sure when to have it. Read more…
People love to talk about the pitfalls of statistics and how we can “lie” with it. Those people don’t do statistics. In science, statistics is often quite difficult. It’s there to help us with very complicated problems, not to hurt others with simple craven power leveragings. The Dawdlers discuss the Read more…
A “philosopher” attempts to define “science”, a “scientist” attempts to define “philosophy”. What is a “thought experiment” anyway? Einstein rides in on his space elevator as the Dawds take spins on the gedanken-spiel.
There may not be philosophy-free science, but there *is* radical-free philosophy. Harland tries it out for as long as he can in this episode on the possible differences between science and philosophy. Buckle your chin straps, Truth Seekers! 00:04:50 – Science? Philosophy?/Thought experiments/Provisionalism vs Definitionalism 00:42:48 – Modes of Indeference/Progress Read more…
Hey you! Yeah you, dummy. You know what time binding is? No? Good! We (Ryan) don’t either. This episode the Dawdlers get in over their heads with Alfred Korzhybski’s General Semantics. Well, Ryan is in over his head. Harland just can’t get his out of his bum. Badum ching! Rim Read more…