Quality Reading Around the Blogs

Chris of Mixing Memory is on the roll again with three provocative essays:

Ward Churchill
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/02/ward-churchill.html

How Evolutionary Psychology Can Make You Look Like an Ass
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/02/how-evolutionary-psychology-can-make.html

What Intelligent Design Could Be... But Isn't
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/02/what-intelligent-design-could-be-but.htm


Brandon of Siris starts a series on the logic of the argument of The Origin of Species. The first two installments are here:

On a Mistaken Impression
http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005/02/on-mistaken-impression.html

Darwin's Logic: Preliminaries: Vera Causa
http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005/02/darwins-logic-preliminaries-vera-causa.html

On teaching science, two takes, by PZ Myers of Pharyngula and by Early Modern Web:

It’s more than just math
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/its_more_than_just_math/

Show me your workings
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2005/02/show-me-your-workings/


Publius of Legal Fiction wrote a marvelous parable:

HARRISON BERGERON IN THE AGE OF ROVE
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#110904407457985703

...and a series of thought-provoking (and comment-provoking) posts:

GO HOME, YOUNG MAN (on E.J. Dionne and Progressive religiosity)
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#110900284967378726

THE "ORDER LEFT" RIDES IN CAMBRIDGE
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#110892377503200273

CLASS ACTIONS AND THE ILLUSIONS OF FEDERALISM
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#110885675441105459

Eric Martin of Total Information Awareness continues looking at Iraq, post-election:

Where Are We Now?
http://tianews.blogspot.com/2005/02/where-are-we-now.html

Eric Gordy of East Ethnia continues covering the (forced?) sale of the old military compound/turned Sarajevo University to the USA for the new Embassy:

New university campus: Sold, cheaply
http://eastethnia.blogspot.com/2005/02/new-university-campus-sold-cheaply.html

How to alienate people
http://eastethnia.blogspot.com/2005/02/how-to-alienate-people.html

Mind Hacks on opening access to science journals (but also look around the blog for a cornucopia of interesting stuff):

How to open the brain to everyone
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/02/how_to_open_the_brai.html#more


And Effect Measure continues the excellent series on explaining George Lakoff:

Lakoff - X: thinking about morality metaphorically http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2005/01/lakoff-x-thinking-about-morality.html

Lakoff - XI: the moral toolbox
http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2005/01/lakoff-xi-moral-toolbox.html

Lakoff - XII: "family values"
http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2005/02/lakoff-xii-family-values.html