New items for April 21, 2011: Google Reader: Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn This sounds eerily in line with Wittgenstein’s take on language in the Philosophical Investigations. Of course, scientists (including linguists) disregard philosophy as conjecture as it has no evidence aside from logical conclusions to back it up. That’s fine, but I find it [...]

Is over. But man, it’s rough. I don’t know why it’s so difficult. It just doesn’t seem like it ought to be if you live outside a major metropolitan area. If anyone in New York reads this, well, my condolences. And also: just ignore me, it’s obviously not that difficult where I live compared to [...]

I’m not big on conspiracy theories. Some are more entertaining than others, sure. And some are right in pointing out that something isn’t right in re whatever it is they’re theorizing conspiracies about. And I have one of my own. I’m really concerned that I haven’t heard much really about this: Artificial Leaf Could Be [...]

Since I haven’t been posting a whole lot lately, the spam has cut back as well. But they’re still at it. The anti-spam plugins that come with WordPress seem to be doing a heck of a job, though, so you won’t actually see any of their cheeky messages. What do they think of the readers [...]