close-up-vintage-royal-standard-typewriter-with-paper-and-bo-1667382168-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Andrew McDiarmid Date September 20, 2026 CategoriesArtsEthicsTechnology Tagged , artificial inteligence, books, chatbots, Claude, community, computers, Counterpoint Press, dependence, ecological health, economic justice, electricity, Energy, energy consumption, environment, family, Harper’s Magazine, land, machines, natural resources, nature, peace, political honesty, pollution, prosocial intentions, relationships, Tanya Berry, technology, thinking, typewriter, water usage, Wendell Berry, work Learning about Technology, and Relationships, from Wendell Berry Andrew McDiarmid September 20, 2026 Arts, Ethics, Technology 10 Berry describes the beautiful working relationship he had with his wife, Tanya. She typed his work on a Royal standard typewriter. Read More ›
ViolinNikolai Type post Author Eric Hedin Date September 4, 2025 CategoriesArtsBiologyIntelligent DesignTechnology Tagged , artificial intelligence, biochemists, cell phones, computers, David Klinghoffer, DNA, electrical engineering, engineering, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, life, organisms, Plato's Revenge, programming, radios, Richard Sternberg, smart phones, Stephen Iacoboni, technology, violin, Wendell Berry, William Shakespeare Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More” Eric Hedin September 4, 2025 Arts, Biology, Intelligent Design, Technology 5 Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›
Freeman_Dyson_at_Harvard-1 Type post Author Michael Flannery Date March 3, 2020 CategoriesEthicsMathematicsPhilosophyPhysical Sciences Tagged , __edited, aesthetics, Cambridge University, Duke University, E.O. Wilson, Freeman Dyson, intelligent design, miracles, New York Times, pseudoscience, scientists, Signature in the Cell, telepathy, The New York Review of Books, Wendell Berry Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis” Michael Flannery March 3, 2020 Ethics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences 6 Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.” Read More ›
kudzu Type post Author Michael Flannery Date May 4, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __cedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ann Gauger, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, David Premack, fossil record, intelligent evolution, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Neo-Darwinism, Purpose and Desire, Quarterly Review of Biology, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Human Instinct, Thomas Nagel, Wendell Berry Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct Michael Flannery May 4, 2018 Evolution, Human Exceptionalism 11 Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
