Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Names of God

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Arthur Clarke wrote "The Nine Billion Names of God" seventy years ago--its thesis is that the universe exists to pronounce all of...
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Monday, February 27, 2023

Another trireme effort

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Chasing rabbits again: from an essay on "Could Napoleon have won?" (*) I ran across the tidbit that Napoleon III had indulged an ...
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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Wisdom

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We know wisdom ≠ knowledge. We have some ideas (and an Everest of worthless fashions) about how to teach knowledge, but nothing reliable fo...
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Friday, February 24, 2023

Remembering college

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Some of what I learned in college I remember, because I used it. And I remember a few other bits and peices, but mostly, 42 years after I e...
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Twain on plagiarism

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Helen Keller had been accused of plagiarism, and Twain wrote to encourage her . He adds: "a grown person’s memory tablet is a palimpse...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

CERN and war

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CERN has Russian and Ukrainian physicists ; how do they acknowledge the war? But in March 2022, the number of new research papers by the LHC...
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Monday, February 20, 2023

Older monks

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It hadn't registered with me that before there were Christian monks, there were Jewish contemplatives living in the Egyptian "deser...
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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Hawthorne effect

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Never mind the fashionable accusations: this article from McGill is interesting . From 1927 to 1932 the Hawthorne Works tried varying condi...
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Thursday, February 16, 2023

words

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AVI is correct; one does need to break up the monotony of text a bit. He selected something from his past. This episode predates my liste...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Lamotrigine off label

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"Scientists switch off autism using lamotrigine" ... well, "Lamotrigine normalized not only the network hyperactivity ... bu...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Trial balloon

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I've been picking up tidbits here and there. Here's my guess. I think the Chinese noticed a hole in our surveillance. It wasn’t us...
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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Chesterton's Fence

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Except that I'm sure at least some of those are really not needed.
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We take a lot of things for granted

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Do you buy medicines over the net? Do you know where they come from, or have the facilities to know what they really are? In Liberia: ...
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MAID Service

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You should read AVI's post. It has a grim graph that shows an ugly rise in doctor/nurse run suicides in Canada. Yes, I judge that rise...
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Saturday, February 11, 2023

Accurate

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"If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals," ― Poul And...
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Thursday, February 09, 2023

Chukulati

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Chocolate has always been a staple--at least aspirationally. Even things that only distantly resemble it, such as tootsie rolls, those litt...
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Lazy Dog

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Commander Salamander's post on carrier vs rods from God sent me down rabbit holes again (although not quite as wild an excursion as Li...

Improper valuation

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Over at Chicago Boyz a post and thread on slavery and the Civil War got me noodling around to see if I had ever figured out how much of the...

Speaking of studies

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A new study! There's a diet for brain boosting (or at least not depriving the brain)! Summary--they think we don't get enough cho...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

If it sounds like something your grandmother would agree with

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The psychology study is more likely to be reproducible--be right. "Most intriguingly, they found that papers which received more medi...
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