Item The Beatles: Has evolutionary biology proved the Fab Four’s early work wasn’t ‘musically important’? “I think that our estimation of the Beatles’ importance at that time, or how we think about […]
Insanity & Doom Update XX
Insights on Philosophy of Beauty — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
On the eve of the greatest beauty, an essay on what beauty means. What is beauty? It may be a little complicated to define how an object, thing or person is “beautiful” […]
You Must Take The War Of “Culture War” Seriously. Our Enemies Do
It’s natural that you were skeptical of the chaos which we have been warning about all these years. All those Week In Dooms were more for laughs than anything else. Beside, most […]
New Research: “We know the jail system harms the public rather than keeping us safe”
Sandhya Kajeepeta, who, like myself, boasts of a “(grating) Michigan accent”, tweeted “We know the jail system harms the public rather than keeping us safe. In this new @AMJPublicHealth paper we quantify […]
The Political Corruption Of Science — Too Many People Of No Color Edition
A female named Emma Goldberg took to the pages of the (anti-Christian) New York Times and said Earth Science Has a Whiteness Problem. Barely 10 percent of doctoral degrees in the geosciences […]
Restoration
It is a slow Friday, and many of us, as we should be, are off the internets and at the lakeside or park. Yesterday we had thoughts of the country, its past […]
The Week In Doom — Scottish Gingerbread Person Edition
Item From the London Times, a quotation from the print edition, 30 November this year, the “arts” section, page 4, on a PR piece about some screen thot who appeared in a […]
In Opposition To Scientism
Bo and Ben Winegard start their Quillette essay (thanks to K.A. Rodgers for the tip) “In Defense of Scientism” by saying “Truth is always provisional”. Is that proposition true, or merely provisional? […]
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