Friday, December 22, 2017

Both sides rowed ships that were strikingly similar

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From Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson. Page 257. On the Battle of Lepanto . The discordant Christians, however, still retaine...

Ceylon, 1916 by Charles W. Bartlett

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Ceylon, 1916 by Charles W. Bartlett Click to enlarge.
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Politically correct postmodernists make movies no one wants to watch

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Fivethirtyeight has a new piece out which is reasonably self-explanatory, The Next Bechdel Test by Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze, Rachael Dottle ...

The whispering past

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From Shakespeare The World as Stage by Bill Bryson. Page 18. Facts are surprisingly delible things, and in four hundred years a lot of th...

The contrast between the ideal life a man wished to lead

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From Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy The 'grimy' features of the story go to show the contrast between the ideal life a man wished to...

Such is the nature of societies that allow dissenting voices and free expression

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From Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson. Page 251. The culture of communication and writing for broader audiences is so embedded...

Gifts you might be surprised to find under the tree

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The rough Roman equivalent of Christmas was Saturnalia which included gift giving. Book 14 of Martial's Epigrams included a list of a...

The tide of cognitive pollution rolls on

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An interesting example of cognitive pollution, confirmation bias, and ideological interpretation over fact-checking and empiricism. From A ...

Misty Night, Danbury, 1947 by Martin Lewis

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Misty Night, Danbury, 1947 by Martin Lewis Click to enlarge.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Progress everywhere

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This isn't the old South Carolina. At the UN we're always asked to do more & give more. So, when we make a decision, at the wil...