There’s a play showing now but unlike most plays the third and last act hasn’t been fully written yet. But I think the first two have. A long time ago.…

Regular readers know that because I have been working with doctors for twenty-some years, I often joke the best medical advice I can give is "Do not get sick." That…

You and I, dear reader, have seen scores of lousy papers in Nature, and its subsidiary journals, over the years. The proportion of these science stink bombs is increasing, as…

It is the year of our Lord nineteen hundred. David Hilbert has just issued his list of Great Unsolved Problems in Mathematics. You, dear reader, are an aspiring mathematician, anxious…

https://twitter.com/minds/status/1562927481945980928 So the regime's secret police lied to Facebook, Twitter, and surely others (like Google), and said it would be in Facebook's and the others' best interest to censor a…

A group of New Physicists gathered out on the point the other morning, close by where I live. I get up pretty early (too early), and since not many do,…

This is an updated version of an original post that ran 3 February 2014. Here is a sketch of Malthus's argument that official government beneficence causes the problem it seeks…

Stay with me on this story. It's not big in itself, but telling. So a lefty politician is running for mayor in the Taiwan city of Taoyuan. He belongs to…