2015 – Page 3 – William M. Briggs

Stream: December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21

Today's post is at The Stream: "December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21". President Hollande of France slid to the microphone, and, with great Gallic aplomb, announced December 12th,…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We finish…

Book review Culture

The Theology of Science-fiction: Some SF “Gospels”—guest post by Bob Kurland

Be sure to visit Bob's main site, Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. Note: this article originally during Lent, 2015. ...when I was not prey to the temptations of this world,…

Culture Statistics

FiveThirtyEight Weighs In With Some Odd Affirmative Action Statistics

FiveThirtyEight ran the piece "Here's What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions" that ran some dicey stats. Affirmative Action is, as all know, the practice of rewarding…

Culture Philosophy

I Self-Identify As The Yak King

Person I know was attending recently a mandatory training session at a well known university. Session was led by trainers not themselves employees of the university, folks who self-identified as…

Culture Statistics

Odds That a Panel Would ‘Randomly’ Be All Men?

There are no such thing as the "odds" a panel would be "randomly" all men. Yet The Atlantic thinks there could be, and so does a fellow named Greg Martin,…

Culture

Stream: Climate Circus, Climate Clowns at #COP21

Update Tell me: are we getting sick of discussing this topic, or what? It seems that, as is sane and rational, most of us would rather move on to something…

Culture

Memo to GOP Presidential Hopefuls (Who Aren’t Named Trump). Guest Post by The BB

Mr Editor says: note the name of the author. Dear GOP Presidential Hopeful, You are probably wondering why your campaign isn't turning out as well as you expected. Up to…

Brian (bulaoren) on Class 99: Entropy Part IOctober 31, 2026
During the summer of 1977, I was living with a woman who had a 2 year old daughter. My brother,…
Ultrarightist on Book Update: Launch DateOctober 29, 2026
Briggs, Thanks for the reply and the information. That is unfortunate. Hardbacks aren't made like they used to be, and…
McChuck on Class 99: Entropy Part IOctober 29, 2026
Entropy is described as a numerical rating of chaos. This is more confusing than not, and a poor descriptor, even…
Briggs on Book Update: Launch DateOctober 28, 2026
Ultrarightist, Apparently not: They use case laminate (also called adhesive case binding or image-wrap) construction: The page block is glued…
Cary Cotterman on Book Update: Launch DateOctober 28, 2026
Most book stores have a rack where employees put new books they've read, accompanied by short, usually hand-written reviews. It's…