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Imagine the recent Olympic Games had gone differently. In the 100-meter final, Usain Bolt notices a stranger at the starting blocks one lane over from his. He puzzles for a moment, shrugs it off, and takes position. The starting gun fires. Bolt runs superbly to a 9.81, but, to his astonishment, crosses the line behind […]
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Western civilization had begun toying with something entirely new when Thales and those who followed him began the reasoned investigation of nature. But these efforts were not systematic enough or sustained enough to distinguish Western civilization’s inchoate version of science from other civilizations’ similar efforts. More importantly, science itself is not the essential or distinctive […]
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Picture a practical joke, played by an older brother on his younger brother. The little brother is having cereal for breakfast. He pours out a serving from the cereal box, which is nearly full, and so has some small heft. The big brother distracts him, “Look behind you!” As the little brother looks away, the […]
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I have said that Western civilization faces a crucial choice: elect Donald Trump and struggle a little longer for life, or elect Hillary Clinton and resign itself to suicide. But what is Western civilization? What does it matter if it lives or dies? Western civilization is the civilization “west of Greece,” the civilization that emerged […]
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Western civilization is not prepared to face the choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. But it is the nature of the most important tests that they do not come at the time of our choosing, but in their own time. Ready or not, willing or not, able or not, the test has begun. The […]
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Gee, Google’s n-gram database is interesting.
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My copy of The DIM Hypothesis arrived today!
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On a whim, I started watching the live stream of the Republican National Convention just moments ago. I was well rewarded: “And we have the ingénue-ity [sic] to develop alternative sources of energy too.†— Condoleezza Rice.
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John Dewey gets name-dropped in a wandering bit of “sustainability†pabulum. What if a bunch of kids learn to do some things by themselves, but never for themselves?
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“Evil People Have Plans!” – MoC #18 (by comedian Lee Camp) There’s lots to quibble with in this video. Still, he’s right.