Liberal Debutante

Stuart Kauffman, Ron Brown and Larry Moran at the Center For Inquiry - Ontario, Feb. 8 2008 (click to inflate)
Event synopsis:
REINVENTING THE SACRED: How the Paradigm of Emergence Offers New Scientific Views on the Origin of Life and Biodiversity, Economics, Ethics, and Spirituality
Stuart Kauffman, Institute for Biochemplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary
“I would like to [...]

 
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Picture of Tara Smith who blogs at Aetiology.
Picture by the wonderful photographer Lindsay at Majikthise
It’s pretty hard to avoid the topic of Yearly Kos while cruising around the blog-o-sphere this weekend. I myself didn’t go. I originally had a ticket, but ended up getting a job that required me to be around and [...]