Category Archives: humanities

here bee targets

Steven den Beste discusses dragon metabolism and how to fight them. Sunday; Monday; Tuesday. I love this sort of thing, don’t you? Psst, Steven: Brendan O’Neill, a professional writer who has been blogging for two months, offers we amateur writers … Continue reading

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a limitation

One thing I haven’t managed to find with Google is the source of a cliché.

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mad cosmology

Some entertaining notions in Susan Stepney’s notes from a panel at Eastercon 2001: Maybe we’re surrounded by fake scenery, living in a “planetarium” – what are the required capabilities of civilisations that can fool us? info is needed to generate … Continue reading

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the other structure of scientific revolutions

Current reading: Freeman Dyson, Imagined Worlds (Harvard, 1997). [Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)] misled a whole generation of students and historians of science into believing that all scientific revolutions are concept-driven. The concept-driven revolutions are the … Continue reading

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how about groucho glasses?

Mark Steyn: In a celebrity culture, it’s useful to be able to put a face to what would otherwise be a shadowy menace. The Chinese get away with a ton of stuff just because they eschew the Colonel Gaddafi pillbox … Continue reading

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they’ll buy up all your rights and all your wrongs

Looking for the words to one of my all-time favorite songs, I am amused to find most of it at the bottom of this page: “The Discipleship of Marriage, Part 3 – ChristianSinglesDating.com Article”. The opening/closing stanza is omitted, presumably … Continue reading

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it’s kosherin’ time!

Yeah, okay, I guess it’s not hard to picture Ben Grimm with a yarmulke. (By way of Meryl Yourish by way of Gary Farber)

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