The advice in this thread is just the usual guff, but the comment about the Transylvanian Journal of Vampire Philosophy is absolutely hysterical.

Briefly sketched a parallel between the argument in my Lund talk and traditional reverse maths and constructivism.

The slides from my talk at the Philosophy and Computation workshop in Lund last Sunday are now available.

Devastating review from the always-excellent Albert.

Does adding full induction affect the consistency strength of subsystems of second order arithmetic?

Mary Hard at Work, by Ellie

Abstract: "Spoken language is a result of the human capacity to assemble simple vocal units into more complex utterances, the basic carriers of semantic information. Not much is known about the evolutionary origins of this behaviour. The vocal abilities of non-human primates are relatively unimpressive in comparison, with gibbon songs being a rare exception. These apes assemble a repertoire of call notes into elaborate songs, which function to repel conspecific intruders, advertise pair bonds, and attract mates. We conducted a series of field experiments with white-handed gibbons at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, which showed that this ape species uses songs also to protect themselves against predation. We compared the acoustic structure of predatory-induced songs with regular songs that were given as part of their daily routine. Predator-induced songs were identical to normal songs in the call note repertoire, but we found consistent differences in how the notes were assembled into songs. The responses of out-of-sight receivers demonstrated that these syntactic differences were meaningful to conspecifics. Our study provides the first evidence of referential signalling in a free-ranging ape species, based on a communication system that utilises combinatorial rules."

Is foundational research a dead field? My answer on MSE is community wiki, so please help improve it.

Great outline by JDH.

Nice answer by Arturo Magidin.

Involves bus drivers diagonalising.

"The Daily Mail uses its female writers in precisely the same way it uses its female readers and celebrities: frequently, centrally and, always, cruelly. Like an abusive husband, the Daily Mail courts women and needs women, but will always turn around and punch them in the face. Because the Daily Mail hates women." Spot on.

Review of James R. Hurford’s The Origins of Grammar.

Giving a talk in May at Philosophy and Computation in Lund, about Shore's computational reverse mathematics.