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We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Researchers

Blockbuster science headline of last week was "Neuroscientists plant false memories in the brain." The whetted some intellects---if intellects can be whetted---and caused others to tizzy. Philip Dick turned out…

Fun

Young Writer (Not Me) Seeks Employment

Ladies and Gentlemen---and you, too, Fran---may I introduce William J. Briggs, my number one son. Note the "J": he's named after my father, not myself. I call him James, but…

Culture

XKeyscore: Too Early For I Told You So?

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety, unless they're scared of terrorists, and then it's okay---Benjamin Franklin So the…

Fun

Work Of A Young Set Theorist

From this textbook the page below was taken (my mother found this while cleaning out the crawlspace). The work was from me. I still maintain there is sufficient interpretational ambiguities…

Philosophy

C.S. Lewis On The Validity of Reasoning

From Miracles (Touchstone edition, 1996, pp 23-24; original 1947): All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning. If the feeling of certainty which we express by words like…

Culture

Another Revolution In College Learning

Did you hear? Our top universities gathered their number-one administrators and professors at a secret conclave and, acting as one, created a new device which will "revolutionize" college learning. You've…

Culture

Bishop Tutu: “I’d Rather Go To Hell Than…”

Desmond Tutu, the once-famous Anglican bishop, made the news when he said yesterday, "I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about…

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