The Best of Rosio Pavoris
There are some posts I’m particularly proud of, for a variety of reasons. Here are some of those. The ones in bold are my personal favorites. More favoriter than the others that are also my favorites, I mean.
Collected Essaylets
- On Kanji
Because people don’t seem to get it. - On Internet Slang
This is why I hate you. - On Gay Marriage
And why it matters, from a legal point of view. IANAL. - On Armistice Day
And why you’re remembering it wrong. - On Hate Crimes
Legal theory, as thrown together by someone who loathes lawyers. - On Apathy in Politics
Politics is civilisation. - On Defining Species
Watch as I piss off every biologist on the planet. - On the Historicity of Jesus
If my name were Saul I wouldn’t change it to Paul. - On Fitness Landscapes
Look! 3D graphics! - On Compulsory Voting
It’s a really straight-forward argument, but a lot of people seem to miss it. - On Character Encoding
Probably the only thing I learned in class in the first semester, and most of it is stuff I looked up later anyway. - On Moderate Christianity
I don’t get it. - On Abiogenesis
Only took three months to get around to writing. - On the Fine-Tuned Universe
Probably a bit better than my first take. - On Just-So Stories
And why they really do have value. - On Special Relativity
I think that’s right.
Religion
- Religion rant!
The first thing I ever really wrote on religion. - I don’t understand weak atheists
I do understand “agnostic in principle, atheist in practice”, though. - Consider this…
In which I go on about religion a bit more. - On extremism
Shoddy theorising~ - “Deconversion”
A personal story. - Atheism vs. Agnosticism
In which I use the word “epistemological”. - “Darwinists are fundamentalists too!”
Middle ground fallacy~ - Why I am opposed to religion
The comments are especially worth reading. - Agnostic in theory, atheist in practice
In which I repeat Dawkins, only with more direct insult. - Revisiting a classic
The last thing I want to hear about that goddamn banana.
And the rest
- Using RSS feeds
Not actually better than any other tutorial out there. - This sort of cartoon needs to happen more often
It made me feel erudite. - Raven Project
Because voices are important. - And now for something completely different.
Instant classic! - Ils sont fous, les Romains.
I speak Latin. I’m better than you. - Non-Darwinian selection
I could’ve worked this into an essaylet. Probably I will eventually. - A Brief History of Us
I’m a modern-day Carl Sagan~ - The double-slit experiment
Particle wave~ - Descartes’ Theorem
Everyone likes geometry. - Philosophy of Higher Education
I loathe the free market. - Going into Iraq
As far as I’ve been able to gather. - The breakdown of simultaneity
More special relativity. - Misunderstanding Natural Selection
And why it doesn’t drive evolution. - Evolution and Abiogenesis
And why it doesn’t make sense to claim one has nothing to do with the other.