science versus philosophy
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On Roe v. Wade
What rights do you have, if a research experiment might instantly erase them?
abortion, abortion access, abortion rights, adversarial justice, adversarial law, adversarialism, artificial womb, caregivers, choice, conception, court arguments, David Cole, equal protection, ethics, external conception, fetal development, fetal viability, freedom, gestation, imbalance of power, infanticide, Jenny Kleeman, justice, Justice Sotomayor, motherhood, Mothers and Others, parenthood, personhood, philosophy, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood v Casey, potentiality of human life, pregnancy, privacy, pro-choice, pro-life, reproduction, reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, right to life movement, Roe, Roe v Wade, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy, science, science versus philosophy, scientific research, Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court opinions, ultrasound, wealth, women's health, women's rights
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On ‘Cat’s Cradle’ and whether or not it’s sci-fi.
The science is realistic, but, more importantly, the science doesn’t matter. The story is about people. Oh, and, the world ends. Whatever.
Cat’s Cradle, catalysis, classics, energy barriers, fate of the universe, ice-9, Kurt Vonnegut, literary fiction, mad cow disease, math analogies for non-math people, Pages to Prisoners, prions, qwerty keyboards, resistance to change, sci-fi, science fiction, science versus philosophy, speculative fiction, the big freeze, the meaning of life is protein?, the stickiness of bad ideas, thermodynamics, transition-state energy
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