I don't normally get excited about "Advances in Science" papers, but everything now and then it's fun to let your imagination play. Thus, I recommend this article about an MIT…
It turns out---shockingly, to some correct-thinking academics---that the bonobo ape is just as bloodthirsty as the rest of the higher primates. Yes, it's true. Bonobos, a sex- and peace-loving species…
Friend of humanity, meteorologist, and philosopher Tom Hamill reminds us of this clip: Which reminds me to this clip, one of the very few songs the lyrics of which I…
Go and see it. It's far from perfect, not always hilarious, cringe-making in parts, but worth two hours of time. Many of the jokes are groaners, but these are usually…
Hope in academia? Thanks again to Dennis Dutton's Arts & Letters Daily for the link to Graphs on the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and other stupid academic fads. The author,…