Sean Carroll

Very nice blog post. Entropy will continue to be an interesting topic at least until the heat death of the universe.

Interesting paper from Katie Robertson @philophyser and Alistair Wilson @modalizing on reduction and emergence of scientific theories. My only concern is that they label me an "eliminativist," which isn't a label I'd give to myself!

Great thread by @j_timmer if you care about science, law, or reason.

Extraordinary Attorney Woo is being hailed as a pathbreaking portrayal of a protagonist on the autism spectrum. True! But it's also simply an amazing TV show, one of my favorites of all time. Very relatable to any human being.

Worth reading if only to get a feeling for how many companies track precisely where you are at every moment of the day.

Interesting article making an important point: the purposes of democracy might not be best served by giving an outsized voice to small groups in the name of "community input."

Good analysis by @jbouie on why third parties don't work in the US. The system won't let them: an elected president, first-past-the-post voting, etc. Also: you can't build a party on vague promises of non-extremism. You have to actually have positions.