Monthly Archives: September 2016

Politics needs the Cladistic Revolution

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Pat Bowne

This was a big issue in my previous life in the world of systematics. The field was in a huge paradigm war between people who classified dead fish based on shared evolutionary novelties (the cladists) and people who classified based … Continue reading →

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Credible Fiction

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Pat Bowne

I read a book this week that lacked credibility. It wasn’t a non-fiction book, so those criteria of credibility didn’t apply. It was a novel about a well-defined phenomenon – the decline of the Jesuit order after Vatican II – … Continue reading →

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Connect – or not?

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Pat Bowne

A friend of mine was in a class of really shy people this summer, and the leader finally had them play the ice-breaking game Connect. Heard of it? I hadn’t either. It’s one of those games where you talk about … Continue reading →