Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Morality and the Philosophy of Science

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Science is consistent and integrated because reality is real. Contradictions do not exist. When we meet an empirical fact for which no expla...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Fastball “The Way”

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They made up their minds And they started packing They left before the sun came up that day An exit to eternal summer slacking But where wer...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

An Objective Philosophy of Science

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In framing her philosophy as capital-O Objectivism, Ayn Rand was following in the tradition of Enlightenment objectivism, which was never ex...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Testing the Stellarvue Correcting Diagonal Prism

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Chromatic Aberration Test -- I mentioned that I bought this correcting diagonal prism along with some other astronomical instrumentation. O...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Nominating Maria Mitchell

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Call for Recommendations: Prominent American Women and the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 Thank you for your recommendati...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos

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The writing is direct, intended for the interested and educated general reader.  I learned a lot, of course, though I did have some quibbles...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Steven J. Dick’s Discovery and Classification in Astronomy

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Thomas Jefferson did not say that it “was easier to believe that two Yankee professors could lie than to admit that stones could fall from h...