Thing Finder

From Fetish for making things ignores real work by John Kay. Kay is arguing that we let our nostalgia for manufacturing, (evoked by the art...

From Like Water for Climate by Bjørn Lomborg. “Everyone knows” that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. After all, this is the a...

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, pp. 26-27. I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition ...

Scary Pictures by Bjørn Lomborg Campaigners on important but complex issues, annoyed by the length of time required for public deliberation...

It is a truism that how you present yourself is important – that consciously or unconsciously you telegraph messages to others in the manner...

From an interview with Herman Wouk, ( At 97, He Has a Book (or 2) Left by Brooks Barnes), I came across this. Old enough to remember Simon ...

Speeches That Changed the World by Cathy Lowne is an odd little collection of "Over 100 of the most influential speeches ever made...

Among my favorite poems is Rudyard Kipling's Gods of the Copybook Headings. Here is a rendition by Bill Whittle where he takes license ...

Carl Sagan in Wonder and Skepticism . The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may ...

I recently posted in Critical Thinking - Much talk and little action , that there was a gap between how widely we praise critical thinking a...