two things

Have you seen Stephen Colbert's "roast" at the White House Press Association thinger-majinger dinner? Holy crap. Thank god for people with balls like Stephen Colbert. He is in the heart of the beast.

Part I

Part II

Number 2, there is a very cool online philosophy "conference" that is happening here. I've been reading and thinking a lot about causality in evolution recently and Jessica Wilson's paper "Non-reductive physicalism and degrees of freedom" seems to be, at least at first glance, quite relevant to the phil-bio stuff.