The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith—By Alan P. Lightman (Harper's Magazine)
6 weeks ago
Intelligent design, however, is an answer to fine-tuning that does not appeal to most scientists. The multiverse offers another explanation.
philosophy
science
from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Evidence in Science and Religion, Part Two - NYTimes.com
6 weeks ago
But this Baconian model of scientific progress in which data sits waiting to be revealed by superior instruments is now, the Princeton philosopher Thomas Kelly tells us, “universally rejected by philosophers” (“Evidence,” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). “It is now appreciated,” Kelly continues, “that at any given time, which theories are accepted … typically plays a crucial role in guiding the subsequent search for evidence which bears on these theories.”
philosophy
from instapaper
6 weeks ago
New tool patches security hole in DNS | Macworld
december 2011
Dnscrypt for Mac by opendns
dns
from instapaper
december 2011
2010
2012
accessibility
airplay
ajax
amazon
antiques
antivirus
apple
art
arts
astronomy
atheism
audio
backup
bittorrent
blogs
books
broadband
browsers
buddhism
business
career
cgi
charity
chess
chrome
cloud
cloudcomputing
cms
comcast
comedy
computers
conservative
crafts
css
culture
database
dell
democratic
district13
dns
domains
dropbox
dvd
dvr
ecommerce
economics
education
elections
email
energy
environment
ethics
etsy
evolution
exeter
facebook
farms
fedora
finance
firefox
firewall
fitness
flash
food
free
freebsd
freeware
Games
gmail
google
government
graphics
happiness
harris
hdtv
health
hiking
history
hitchens
hosting
household
html
html5
illusions
image
images
internet
ios
ip
ipad
ipodtouch
islam
itunes
javascript
joomla
juggling
liberal
library
lifehacker
linux
lion
livecd
local
mac
maps
media
mediacenter
meditation
memory
mind
mindmap
mini
movies
music
nature
netneutrality
network
neutrality
newengland
newfields
news
nh
notes
obama
objective-c
opensource
osx
outliners
passwords
people
performance
philosophy
photography
php
pictures
pinker
podcasts
politics
polls
portsmouth
postmodernism
prez08
prez12
primary
printers
privacy
programming
psychology
python
radio
rails
religion
remote
republican
republicans
restaurants
romney
router
rss
ruby
science
scifi
search
secularism
security
seo
shopping
skepticism
snowleopard
SOPA
spyware
ssh
stocks
storage
stratham
templates
todo
travel
tv
twitter
ubuntu
unix
usb
video
vm
voice
vpn
wave
web
web2.0
web20
webdesign
webdev
wifi
wiki
wikis
windows
windows7
wine
wishlist
wordpress
yahoo
youtube