Diesel fumes can affect your brain, scientists say

Diesel fumes can affect your brain, scientists say

• So, we’ve been inhaling diesel fumes since the end of the 19th century and they’re only just finding this out?
• What about all the other pollutants that have been created since then? I guess we’re supposed to assume they’re completely safe as long as there’s no research that proves they’re harmful. I guess that’s okay — they’ll get around to it in 100 years or so.

Discovery Challenges Finding of a Separate Human Species

Discovery Challenges Finding of a Separate Human Species

• So one group of scientists is speculating in one direction, and another group of scientists is speculating in the other direction. What ever happened to reserving judgment until there’s enough data?

Plain Language: Improving Communications from the Federal Government to the Public

Plain Language: Improving Communications from the Federal Government to the Public

• Okay. So now all we need is a means of communication from the public to the federal government. But maybe that’s not as important.

Ontology and Formal Semantics – Integration Overdue

Ontology and Formal Semantics – Integration Overdue

• Overdue indeed. I became a semantician because I found the content representations being used in cognitive science were vacuous. Then I became an ontologist because I found the content representations being used in semantics were vacuous.
• Only with plausible, common-sense ontology can we ever do plausible, common-sesne semantics. Only with plausible, common-sense semantics can we ever do plausible, common-sense cognitive science. Only with plausible, common-sense cognitive science can we ever do plausible, common-sense social science. Only with plausible, common-sense social science can we ever design effective, evidence-based policies to put our society back on track.
• I guess that’s why they call it “integration”.

An empirical case against materialism

An empirical case against materialism

• Oh, the irony.

Visible Thinking

Visible Thinking

• So all you have to do now is move your kids to a country with an educational system designed to turn out creatively intelligent citizens instead of ignorant serfs, and you’re all set.

Education Reform: The Tough Standards Movement

Education Reform: The Tough Standards Movement

• I’m not sure I want to go to the mall and be surrounded by people who can think.

• Well, okay, maybe I do.

Free will is not an illusion

Free will is not an illusion

Who thought it was an illusion?

Oh, never mind.

Method and apparatus for non-invasive analysis of blood glucose

U.S. Patent #7,316,649

• Should we be holding our breath till this hits the market?

EIS health scan biosensor offers new screening approach

EIS health scan biosensor offers new screening approach

• So I wonder if this technology is available in the US yet.