Saturday, December 11, 2010

Pensées - entry 00006

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi.

Original publishing date: April 13, 2010.

Original Title: Homeopathy and mouse model

Pensées - entry 00005

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi.

Original publishing date: April 13, 2010.

Original Title: In which I take on Homeopathy

Pensées - entry 00004

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi.

Original publishing date: March 30, 2010.

Original Title: Publication Bias in animal experiments?

Pensées - entry 00003

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi.

Original publishing date: March 18, 2010.

Original Title: Exciting science, age-old problem...

Pensées - entry 00002

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi.

Original publishing date: March 15, 2010.

Original Title: I rant against Helicobacter pylori...

Pensées - entry 00001

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi.

Original publishing date: Mar 12, 2010

Original title: Suddenly...

Friday, December 10, 2010

Pensées, from moi

How many of you know what Pensées are? Raise your hands.

"Pensées" (literally, "thoughts") is a posthumously published collection of notes made by the renowned French Philosopher, Mathematician and Physicist, Blaise Pascal, during his final years as he worked on a treatise on Christian apologetics. These contain his infamous wager/gambit.

'Meh!' You say. Rightly so.