Notions

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) hosts a program called "Ideas" which is very profound and sometimes even interesting. The Royal Canadian Air Farce, a comedy program on the CBC, offers a parody called "Notions" which deals with matters not important enough to be called "Ideas".

These sections will be expanded regularly, so you may wish to check them from time to time if you find them of interest. Here are the topics covered so far:

Ecology

	Do Emergent Properties Exist?
	Species and Ecosystems
	The Empty Niche
	The Revolution in Ecology and Population Dynamics
	Hard Science vs. Soft Science
	Philosophy vs. Science (and Tautology in particular)

Letters to the Editor

	Question about Bureaucracy, and Culinary Advice
	Portuguese Drivers
	Law Enforcement
	Extraditing Killers

Politics

	Third Party Politics in the US
	How should Americans respond to Terrorism?

Computer Issues

	Tricks of virus spreaders
	Shrinking large Word documents

Developed and maintained by William Silvert.