Zizek on ecological ideology

Wow, this is fun.

Joseph Cambpell really got it.

… the earlier google vids link is down. You can access a Quicktime version here.
From a description of the audio:
An exhilarating journey into the mind and spirit of a remarkable man, a legendary teacher, and a masterful storyteller, conducted by TV journalist Bill Moyers in the acclaimed PBS series….

2.The Message of the Myth
Campbell compares [...]

An Islamic History of Europe?

Why does history matter? It’s the sole provider of context, of meaning, to the otherwise unfathomably complex temporal world. The narratives that sit in your head are the prisms through which you view the world. Successful demagogues know this–so do (good) novelists and filmmakers.
I’ve made this point before, but i feel it’s worth making again: [...]

BBC 4: Science and Islam

As both a child of the globalized era, and someone involved in education, i’m continually irked by the myopic (judeo)-christian-centred narratives on the history of global ‘progress’ presented to students here in the west (and probably elsewhere, although i can’t speak to that).
Here’s a doc by BBC 4 that tries to remedy this. It’s not [...]

correlation

Probability, the Law of Large Numbers and |truth|

Below is a thought-provoking, if half-baked, non-dualistic take on the central principle of probability theory.
The Law of Large Numbers by Ramesh Balsekar.
Ramesh Balsekar
Creating Order Out of Disorder:
The Theory of Probability – The Law of Large Numbers
One of the best kept secrets of the universe relates to the question of how the sub-atomic, micro-world of [...]

Darwin’s unfinished revolution | The Economist

Cambridge paleontologist Simon Conway-Morris has interesting ideas about the tendency of evolution to follow certain overarching pathways. In a recent talk while visiting here on campus, he went on to make some oblique, but fascinating, conjectures about the immanence of phenomena such as complexity and intelligence. The Economist discusses him here:
… Simon Conway-Morris, a [...]

Evolution, agency, and Darwinian discourse — part I

As follows are my comments on an ongoing evolution-education post over at ecobobble:
I agree 100% with the argument that ID is trying to present itself as something it’s not (science). This is disingenuous, misleading, and fraught with lameness. …
[However] What i’m suggesting is that the reason ID proponents feel the need to promote their agenda [...]