March 2008
3 posts
Richard Dawkins & Darwinian Societies →
Very amusing description of PZ Myers being ejected from the preview of ‘Excluded’ - the new film on Intelligent Design. But that is not what interested me.
In the 11th paragraph Dawkins repeats his view from ‘The Selfish Gene’ that our origins in Darwinian evolution do not mean that we should structure our society in the same way. He argues that we should use our brains...
The Role of Powerpoint in the Colombia Disaster →
It does seem odd that NASA’s engineers presented technical information in the form of Powerpoint slides. It suggests to me a culture focussed on ‘managing the managers’ rather than engineering problem solving.