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April 20th, 2012 | Category: miscellaneousDramatic title! Perhaps too dramatic! But whatever! Finally, after a couple of weeks caught up in the Global Atheist Convention 2012, the Test of Faith panel discussion and some hardcore university writing about mouse testis cDNA libraries, I’m back to blogging again, as you can see. I’m exhausted, and I’m not out of things to do yet, but the pressure’s been turned down quite a bit.
If you were wondering, the Global Atheist Convention went spectacularly well. As a volunteer in a vibrant blue t-shirt I was running around all over [...]
» Continue reading “Rising from the ashes of atheists, Christians and mouse testes”
February 23rd, 2012 | Category: miscellaneousThe concept of a podcast barely existed ten years ago, but now, in 2012, they’re one of the fastest growing forms of media, focusing on topics such as news, entertainment, comedy, niche interests and more. To say that podcasts are influential would be a gross understa-
Blah. Blah. Blah.
I’ll save you the contrived history lesson. We all know what podcasts are, so this is a post telling you about some of my favourites, ones that I think will appeal to almost anyone reading this. Of course, there are more that [...]
» Continue reading “Four podcasts (I think) you won’t regret becoming acquainted with”
January 11th, 2012 | Category: miscellaneousFamily holiday time this week (from the 9th to the 16th of January) up in sunny/windy/rainy Merimbula, a coastal town in New South Wales, less than 100km from the Victorian border. It took us about eight hours to drive here from Melbourne – a couple more and we could have reached Canberra, and a few more after that and we’d be in Sydney. But capital cities are far too busy and noisy for my holiday tastes, so quiet coastal town it is.
The Merimbula back beach. Note [...]
» Continue reading “I’m the one sitting on the beach, reading about the philosophy of science”
January 7th, 2012 | Category: miscellaneous
Personally, the concept of donating money to people whose online content you enjoy and benefit from has always seemed noble and sophisticated. My ideal model for a donation system is as follows. Someone does something amazing, with no intention of receiving any money for it, and then money magically appears in their possession, unannounced and unexpected. They profess infinite gratitude, the people who donated reassure them that they’re worth the (individually) small expense, and everyone gets on with their busy lives – the recipient now able to [...]
» Continue reading “The angst and awkwardness of facilitating blog donations”
December 25th, 2011 | Category: miscellaneousMerry Christmas, everyone. I hope you spend it with friends, family and/or cyborgs you programmed to be optimal social partners. Whatever makes you happy.
In my opinion, the greatest Christmas song ever written is Tim Minchin’s “White Wine In The Sun”. Chances are you’ve heard of it, but if not: prepare to develop a whole new level of respect for the guy.
Have a good one.
Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you spend it with friends, family and/or cyborgs you programmed to be optimal social partners. Whatever makes you happy. In my opinion, the greatest Christmas…
December 9th, 2011 | Category: miscellaneousIt’s official! I’m going to be on a panel at Young Minds 2012, a conference in Sydney from June 21st to 22nd. For those unaware…
Young Minds is an exciting new initiative from the producers of the hugely popular Happiness & Its Causes and Mind & Its Potential conference series.
A summit of 50+ leading thinkers from Australia and around the world, Young Minds will address the vital issues facing our youth. Enjoy our potent mix of cutting edge research, philosophical, scientific and social perspectives and inspiring personal stories.
Be inspired and informed [...]
» Continue reading “I’m speaking at the Young Minds 2012 conference in Sydney next June!”
December 7th, 2011 | Category: miscellaneousIt’s finally happening. I’m parting ways with my oldest, most hard-to-remember-how-to-type pen name, “Naon Tiotami”.
As of about 12 hours ago, this blog’s domain has changed from naontiotami.com to jackscanlan.com. Because of mapping and backend wizardry, all old links pointing to the naontiotami.com domain will automatically redirect to jackscanlan.com. This even goes for links to specific posts – you’ll be automatically redirected to the same post on the new domain. Seamless! Hooray!
If you read this blog on an RSS feed reader, you probably won’t need to change the RSS [...]
» Continue reading “Domain evolution – Goodbye, naontiotami.com; hello, jackscanlan.com!”
November 22nd, 2011 | Category: miscellaneousMy last exam, Biochemical Regulation of Cell Function, finished a bit over an hour ago, at the time I’m writing this. Three months of holidays! Three months. That’s how much holidays I have now: it’s quite a bit, I think you’ll agree. And because I’ve been neglecting the blog a little due to all the studying I’ve been doing, I want to clarify what you should expect to see up here over that period. You see, I’m at a crossroads with regard to what I should write about over the [...]
» Continue reading “The post-exam blogging Holiday Junction – or – Future plans for Homologous Legs”
October 1st, 2011 | Category: miscellaneous…or not. But wouldn’t that be good? For one thing, it would mean that life-after-death via neurocybernetics is possible, which could only end with either world peace or the fiery destruction of Earth under the reign of ruthless cyborgs. I’m willing to take that risk.
So, I’ve had two weeks of university holidays and I couldn’t find the time to blog. But let’s think for a second: in a purely deterministic universe (or even an indeterministic universe ruled by quantum uncertainty), can I be blamed? Technically no, but socially yes. [...]
» Continue reading “This time, I had my consciousness uploaded into a computer with no Internet access!”
September 16th, 2011 | Category: miscellaneousReally, truly, I didn’t mean it. Life gets busy, you know? Er, I mean, the Men-in-Black arrested me and wiped my memory; my cat ate my laptop; the Tasmanians invaded; the Internet in Australia was shut off for two weeks; I was turned into a horrible Drosophila ananassae/Homo sapiens hybrid in a freak lab accident involving PCR, a papercut and a dodgy pipette: mix and match your favourite (far more exciting) excuses for my absence.
Anyway, the point is, I was gone for a while. But the Internet stops for no [...]
» Continue reading “While I was gone… (aka. Having compound eyes isn’t all it’s cracked up to be)”
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Homologous Legs is the blog of Jack Scanlan, an Australian biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents evolutionary biology or science in general.
He uses this blog to post news about the intelligent design/evolution "war", science communication in biology and chemistry, and mostly coherent thoughts from his scattered, music-loving brain. Contact
homologouslegs(at)gmail(dot)com
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