The Books of Absolutes: A Critique of Relativism and a Defence of Universals William D. Gairdner McGill-Queen’s University Press Recommendation: Read Let’s play spot the flaw. In 1994, professor Mark Glazer said, […]
Mini book reviews
This is mostly catch up…I’m spending my free time getting ready for a talk on the 15th… A History of the Vikings Gwyn Jones Oxford University Press Recommendation: read If it wasn’t […]
Did a psychic solve the Tabitha Horn murder case?
This was an investigation that I did a long time ago, but I never properly wrote up. I was inspired to finally do so by reading Joe Nickell’s similar sleuthing of the […]
Title IX in Science and Engineering
Your university’s science and engineering programs might be “Titled nined” if Those That Care have their way. Title IX, or the “Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act”, is one of […]
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
Recommendation: read When Fussell wrote in 1982 (and published in 1983), he said that acknowledging the class divisions that exist in America exist was poor form and that doing so would likely […]
Is climatology a pseudoscience?
The short answer, I will disappoint many of you by saying, is no. Like I wrote before, climatologists are generally nice people genuinely struggling with understanding the immense complexities of the oceanic-atmospheric […]
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