Category Archives: humanities

the name of the word for it is called Haddocks’ Eyes

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 03 by Anton

Thousands of Inca Mummies Raised From Their Graves About 40 of the large mummy bundles are topped with false heads, known to archaeologists as falsas cabezas. Can’t quarrel with that! (Cabeza is Spanish for ‘head’.)

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where they stood

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 02 by Anton

Animation of Congress. For those three of you who haven’t seen it: Keith Poole‘s team at U.Houston tabulated the roll-call votes in Congress from 1879 to 1998 and did a factor analysis; the two dimensions shown in the animation are … Continue reading →

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exegesis of intelligence

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

Stephen Jay Gould, in one of his Natural History essays, wrote: I believe that any solution to this key puzzle in Darwinian biography must begin with a proper exegesis of intelligence – one that rejects Charles Spearman’s old notion of … Continue reading →

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testing their faith

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

CNN.com – Greek mystery virus spreads “It should be considered blasphemous, to say the least, to consider it possible that epidemic ailments could be transferred through holy communion and endanger human life,” the Athens diocese said in a statement released … Continue reading →

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organized religion

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

I’m a bit puzzled that the recent powwow in Rome was attended by all the American cardinals rather than all the American bishops. As I misunderstand it, bishop is primarily an office, but cardinal is primarily a personal rank; a … Continue reading →

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race relations

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Quoth the Instapundit: William Raspberry writes that there is a shortage of educated black men and that as a result, successful black women aren’t getting married. This, he says, is a tragedy. And I suppose it is. But, you know, … Continue reading →

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busk to the future

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

The poet Tom Digby asks (on his own list): Didn’t bards of old live largely on tips and free meals and such, rather than from some giant corporation pushing packaged “product”? Might the Internet move us back toward that model? … Continue reading →

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