Dr. Tim Mawson is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Peter’s College, Oxford, UK. He’s the author of ‘Praying to stop being an atheist’ (International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, June 2010, Volume 67, Issue 3, pp 173-186) “In this paper, I argue that atheists who think that the issue of God’s existence or […]
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“God-awful… figures from cutting-edge published research”
LFHCfS (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists) member Erika Woolsey alerts us to the existence of the Bad Figure blog, which collects “God-awful good-for-nothing figures from cutting-edge published research”. Here is one of Bad Figure’s many items: Figure 1 Comparison of ratios of DNABIT Compress with existing algorithms Rajarajeswari, P., & Apparao, A. (2011). DNABIT […]
“Mere Exposure to Bad Art” and The Museum of Bad Art
A new study may be of special interest to anyone who visits The Museum of Bad Art. The study is “Mere Exposure to Bad Art,” Aaron Meskin, Mark Phelan, Margaret Moore, and Matthew Kieran, British Journal of Aesthetic, vol. 53, no. 2 (2013): 139-164. The authors, at the University of Leeds, Lawrence University, and the […]
Some vexed machines
Donald Simanek compiled a long, yet undoubtedly very, very partial list of patents for machines that do not and, by their nature, cannot work as described. (Thanks to investigator Timmy Barton for bringing it to our attention.) Here’s one item: 1857 [No. 1330] Peter Armand le Comte de Fontainemoreau of London, Agent. Hydraulic motor. The “bucket […]