briefly looking up empirical papers, giving up and resorting to nature documentaries is just ... extremely philosophy.

It seems Ludwig Boltzmann had a bit of a drinking problem.

I picked up the dialectical biologist at a used bookstore a couple weeks ago. It slaps. Includes a whole chapter about pranks they played on EO Wilson along with this strategy for riches and professional success.

Dropping by a Bayesian ecology conference today to see what they are doing. Apparently, it is strapping an accelerometer onto wild sharks. Then fitting hidden markov models to classify the sharks into "resting", "methodical exploration", and "rapid exploration".

Nancy Cartwright is so impressive. She has a MasterClass now. Even more impressive its on a subject not in her AOS.