This series originally begin 3 January 2009. This is only Part I; the remaining parts are linked below. INTRODUCTION On 20 September 2004, in the Physics Department at MIT, sponsored locally by […]
Omni magazine: a tribute
Crap. Some kind of psychobabble how-to. Crap. Romance novel, romance novel, something in a plastic binder—and it’s sticky!, ah geez—crap, crap, crap. Wait…what’s that one. With the psychedelic cover. Do I read […]
Breaking the Law of Averages: Real-Life Probability and Statistics in Plain English
It is finally done! You may order directly from the publisher here1. The book will also be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. in about a month. I’ll update this post […]
Transforming American Military Policy
Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy by Frederick W. Kagan, 2006. Encounter Books. Recommendation: read This book is an excellent accounting of the theories that have gripped and influenced […]
The B.S. octopus
Jonathan Bate, of Standpoint, recently wrote an essay “The wrong idea of a university”: It used to work like this. Dr Bloggs, the brilliant scholar who had solved the problem of the […]
Greenpeace is shocked–shocked–to discover lobbying going on
There is a belief among certain paranormal researchers—these are the guys who study mind reading, clairvoyance, etc.—that is used to explain why psychic experiments haven’t seen positive results. It is called the […]
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