I’ve really been enjoying featuring various Etsy sellers here. I was planning to put up two sellers a week (Mondays and Thursdays), but I’m tempted to step it up to three times a week. I’d like some opinions. Would featuring three sellers a week detract from their spotlight? I’ve been getting requests from so many wonderful sellers, and I really would like to be able to put more of them up.
You should now be able to leave comments on my blog without registering. I got a plugin that should help me prevent spam while allowing anyone who wishes to leave a comment. I hope it works!
Question of the Day: Well, maybe not so much a question, but a rambling, pondering sort of thing. This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night. I’ve been wondering why evolution is so often portrayed as a linear process. There is some kind of assumption that mankind will evolve into a predetermined “advanced” being. I see evolution as a chaotic, non-deterministic process. Also, why has technologically advanced come to mean more evolved? You can tell that my mind has been poisoned by an overdose of sci-fi. Otherwise, why would I even think of these things?
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aaagh, species concepts. Run for the hills! Or the lab. I stuck with mutant analysis until I decided to go the whole computer way.
Ooh, good example with the eyeglasses.
I haven’t studied biology since 9th grade, but I’ve always had an interest. I thought about studying biology in college, but with my whole be-kind-to-animals thing, I couldn’t bring myself to dissect animals. Hence I took physics, chemistry, and geology. Now I’m in the habit of dissecting rocks. Well, more than dissecting. More like obliterating.
I did attend a lecture a couple of years ago on the reclassification of species based on DNA. I’m sure that’s old-hat to you biologists out there, but it was fascinating to me.
Perhaps “more highly derived” would be a better description than evolved, but I always hated evolutionary biology, being much more happy with molecular bio instead of cladisitics.
But yeah, with more technology you remove some of the selection pressures. Bad eyes? Wear glasses.
The more I think about it, the more I think that the phrase “more evolved” is meaningless. Everything that lives on this planet at this very moment is equally evolved, isn’t it?
I think that technology and scientific advancement force us all to become more specialized. There’s a bigger pool of knowledge, and we can each only be familiar with a very small portion of it.
Oh, another pet peeve of mine… assuming that people who lived in the past weren’t as smart as we are today. Boy, that one drives me crazy!
First off, love those earrings! 🙂
Also, I don’t think that featuring three sellers instead of two a week would necessarily be overkill. I’d be willing to read three.
Aaaaaaand, I pretty much agree with you on the evolution thing. More technologically advanced we become, the less evolved. The more technology does for us, the less we have to do and the less we have to think. In a way, it makes us lazy. I’m pretty sure technology makes us dumber… :