Wednesday, June 15, 2016

His command of the subject is outrun by his ambitions

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As an atheist of Islamic background, Razim Khan is very controversial to the Left. The oddity of that statement reflecting the morass of co...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Intentions versus execution

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I think we should at least give them credit for good intentions. LAPD Officers went undercover and dressed up as women to catch a purse s...

Mountainous insight

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A useful counterpoint to the platitude of "Pursue Your Passion" Every corpse on Everest was once an extremely motivated person. ...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Conversation is where knowledge is transmitted

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Very interesting data that runs counter to many assumptions. The question is how much information is shared word-of-mouth (face-to-face or ...

The keys to success of a story are to evoke the emotions of curiosity, surprise, and suspense, as well as disgust or ingroup-outgroup hatred, and for its parts to fit together into a coherent structure

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A very good summary of the little understood field about what determines whether a story catches on or survives over time. From The Theory ...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Technology coevolution

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From The Development of the Rudder, 100-1600 A.D.: A Technological Tale by Lawrence V. Mott. From the abstract: The one instrument which ...

Having fun with big data sets

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Without more details, no possible conclusions. The tweeter is casting this as "People who dye their hair crazy colors, might be craz...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Free creators lead to growth, coercive regulators do not

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Possibly more fun than factual. From A brief history of human time by Olivier Gergaud, Morgane Laouénan, and Étienne Wasmer. Historical a...

The unheard whispers of history as we move through spaces

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I find more and more often, as the years advance, some history or story of a place that I used to frequent and was ignorant of at that time....
Friday, June 10, 2016

One of them was obscenely bald

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H/T Ed Driscoll. From The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell. Published in 1937 in England, it is oddly descriptive of our current envi...