Mark R. Kelly
-
Recent Posts
- Lilla: THE ONCE AND FUTURE LIBERAL
- Gladstone: THE TROUBLE WITH REALITY
- Kakutani: THE DEATH OF TRUTH
- Levitan: NOT A SCIENTIST
- Nichols, THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE
- Levitin: A FIELD GUIDE TO LIES
- Ariely: PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL
- Keen: HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE
- Lightman: SEARCHING FOR STARS ON AN ISLAND IN MAINE
- Gould: UNIVERSE IN CREATION
Bookmarks
Daily Sites
Thought Leaders
politics and economics:- Paul Krugman; @NYT
- Robert Reich
- E.J. Dionne, Jr.
- Nicholas Kristof
- Rachel Maddow
- Dahlia Lithwick
- Emily Bazelon
science, philosophy, religion:- Jerry Coyne
- Sean Carroll
- Sam Harris
- A.C. Grayling
- E.O. Wilson
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Phil Plait
- Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist)
- Paul Fidalgo (CFI Morning Heresy)
- Adam Lee (Daylight Atheism)
- Connor Wood (Science on Religion)
science fiction:Categories
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Astronomy
- Atheism
- Bible
- Book Notes
- Changing One's Mind
- Children
- Commonplace Book
- Conservative Resistance
- Conventions
- Cosmology
- Culture
- Economics
- Evolution
- Films
- Games
- Heinlein
- Human Progress
- Humanism
- Isaac Asimov
- Links
- Lunacy
- Mathematics
- Meaning
- MInd
- Morality
- Movies
- Music
- Narrative
- Personal history
- Pet Peeves
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Politics
- Provisional Conclusions
- Psychology
- Quote at Length
- Ray Bradbury
- Religion
- Reviews
- Robert Silverberg
- Robert Wright
- Science
- science fiction
- Science Fiction Nonfiction
- Short Fiction
- Silverberg
- Skiffy Flix
- Social Progress
- Space
- Species Reset
- Spirituality
- Star Trek
- Steven Pinker
- Supernatural
- Technology
- Ten Commandments
- The Gays
- Thinking
- Travel
- TV Sci Fi
- Uncategorized
- Website Issues
- Writing
Archives
- February 2019 (13)
- January 2019 (3)
- October 2018 (4)
- September 2018 (5)
- August 2018 (9)
- July 2018 (3)
- June 2018 (7)
- May 2018 (6)
- April 2018 (11)
- March 2018 (5)
- February 2018 (6)
- January 2018 (3)
- December 2017 (8)
- November 2017 (11)
- October 2017 (8)
- September 2017 (14)
- August 2017 (12)
- July 2017 (13)
- June 2017 (15)
- May 2017 (21)
- April 2017 (24)
- March 2017 (16)
- February 2017 (22)
- January 2017 (14)
- December 2016 (3)
- November 2016 (1)
- October 2016 (9)
- September 2016 (3)
- August 2016 (4)
- July 2016 (2)
- June 2016 (18)
- May 2016 (11)
- April 2016 (12)
- March 2016 (9)
- February 2016 (9)
- January 2016 (18)
- December 2015 (21)
- November 2015 (17)
- October 2015 (14)
- September 2015 (22)
- August 2015 (16)
- July 2015 (12)
- June 2015 (14)
- May 2015 (14)
- April 2015 (7)
- March 2015 (13)
- February 2015 (19)
- January 2015 (20)
- December 2014 (11)
- November 2014 (15)
- October 2014 (9)
- September 2014 (3)
- August 2014 (2)
- July 2014 (16)
- June 2014 (19)
- May 2014 (34)
- April 2014 (26)
- March 2014 (37)
- February 2014 (27)
- January 2014 (19)
- December 2013 (11)
- November 2013 (8)
- October 2013 (10)
- September 2013 (21)
- August 2013 (13)
- July 2013 (6)
Meta
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Interesting items from Sunday’s New York Times
Frank Bruni: The G.O.P.’s Gay Pretzels Bruni imagines a letter from the RNC to the Republican presidential candidates on their handling of the question, would you attend a gay wedding? From Bobby Jindal We do not recommend the tint picked … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Narrative, Science, The Gays
Leave a comment
Naïve Physics
Here’s a fascinating article from The Conversation: Infections of the mind: why anti-vaxxers just ‘know’ they’re right (via). My interest in this piece isn’t about anti-vaxxers per se, it’s about the more general issue of how people form beliefs, what … Continue reading
Posted in Physics, Psychology
Leave a comment
Links and Comments: the vastness of the universe; Hubble photos; the physics of everyday life; science books; creationists and the possibility of alien life
Vox: 11 images that capture the incredible vastness of space. Related: Phil Plait celebrates 25 Years of Cosmic Treasures: Hubble’s 12½ Greatest Hits \\ Physicist Sean Carroll this week references an earlier post that spells out an important point: The … Continue reading
Links and Comments: Emperor’s New Clothes, Presidential Piety
Salon has been running essays by a contributing editor for The Atlantic [n.b.: ‘contributing editor’ might only mean, as it does in the case of Locus, that he is a regular contributor — he submits a column once a month; … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Religion
Leave a comment
Settling in, Catching up, Puppygate
I’m two or more weeks behind posting links and comments, though not without collecting them in my blogposts word doc, so I’ll be catching up eventually — I think this next week. The context is settling in to our new … Continue reading
Posted in Personal history
Leave a comment
Links and Comments: Republican analogies; Hugo Awards trolling; Religious freedom laws
I’m way behind with day to day links and comments, so let me spend an hour catching up, if with minimal commentary or alignment into general issues. First, one of many examples of Republicans unclear on the concept of analogies … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Culture, Religion, science fiction
Leave a comment
Links and Comments: Religious Freedom and Gay Animus
I’ve been busy the last couple weeks unpacking books and arranging the house, and so am backlogged with links and comments, including this past week’s news and many commentaries about the ‘religious freedom’ laws in Indiana and elsewhere. For the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Religion
Leave a comment