- Dune, or specifically, the Litany Against Fear. Perhaps a personal account of my exploratory surgery before senior year of high school and how I remember saying it to myself...
- Philosophy and Cosmology, for example the Anthropic Principle (reference that recent review, was it George Ellis?) or inhomogeneous cosmological models and the Copernican Principle, how that’s often misunderstood to be the Cosmological Principle (or vice versa)
- I could always post something less-deep...
- Empiricism vs. Rationalism
- ‘Tween t-shirt’ controversy: http://thelook.today.com/_news/2011/09/12/7730480-forever-21s-latest-tween-t-shirt-infuriates-consumers-parents?GT1=43001 and jezebel article (maybe with discussion of PandA Diversity group)
- “Floating in the void between theory and observation” (clever idea? clever title at least)
- Faster-than-light neutrino or how the universe doesn’t make any sense
- Culture of superiority as expressed in Tea Party/media reactions to Occupy Wall Street movement, psychological tendencies to compare/rank yourself with others, sense in physics (and business?) that arrogance interpreted as being confident/knowledgeable…
- The Indra simulations and the meaning behind the metaphor of Indra’s net
So there we have it, a snapshot of thoughts about deep thoughts.
If you're curious about one of the topics or want me to write about it next, let me know! The idea that someone cares about something might get me to focus on it once I find myself wanting/having time to write non-research sentences... in, let's say, April? :-/
I'm chuckling right now, because I made a similar list otday in my journal. "Things to write about, maybe."
ReplyDeleteOne thing I am interested in, and you may be as well, is epistemology. Not as a general field of inquiry, but about how our media discourse seems to reinforce an idea that beliefs can constitute truths, or that knowing and believing are the same thing. Part of it is the idea of "fair and balanced," and not just the bullshit Faux news verion, but the idea that everything is subjet to debate. I think that the irony of our times is that despite the explosion of acess to the sum of human knowledge scholarship, we live in an ever inreasing age of belief.
Ok, sorry for the long winded "comment." Keep it up, I love reading your stuff.
You're my favorite person :) I vote for Dune, Floating, and Indra!
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