Welcome to Daily Kos readers

Hi ya'll. Thanks for reading the interview on Daily Kos. Darksyde said you'd be dropping by. To give you a hint of this blog, apart from the puns and cartoons, here's a list of some of the more substantial posts from the last six months:

Religion

• Jewish fundamentalism
• My pessimistic sermon on the new Dark Ages
• Saturday evening sermon

Philosophy

• Darwin, evolution, and Popper
• Tribalism, evolving societies, and Popper
• Universals and language
• Aristotle on biology, by Lennox
• Essentialism revisited

Science

• How to get science across to the public

Evolution

• The tapestry of life
• How did genes evolve?
• Crossing the line - HGT and [Paul] Nelson
• Evolution - guided or unguided?
• The phylogeny of blogs, and other things
• The Mosasaur and the missing link
• Adam Smith versus or with Darwin?
• Thos. Burnet and Epicurus
• The Kong Love Interest
• Rooting the tree - and finding the cenancestor?
• Evolution, rules and laws
• Peer review, stem cells and science

Species and Speciation

• The origins of species... errr... concepts
• Species concepts are too important

A series of posts on the ideas of Sergey Gavrilets

• Fitness landscapes and the modeling of evolution
• Gavrilets continued
• Modes of speciation - organising the mess
• Modes of speciation 2: flow versus place
• Speciation genes
• Conclusion

Politics

• Those damned cartoons

Enjoy, and do look around. Comments welcomed, so long as you don't try to convert me to a religion or sell something.