Phases of the ISS
2013-11-14 – I am on a mailing list to receive notices of when the International Space Station will be visible from where I live. The ISS is generally visible for […]
Twain Technology
2013-11-12 – The release last month of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Papers), put me in mind of Kit’s an my […]
Political Reality Test
2013-11-10 – Who is more attached to reality, republicans or democrats, conservatives or liberals? I’d been thinking about this for a while when I stumbled into an online discussion yesterday […]
Neither Shall They Learn War
2013-11-07 – Okay. I was bad in my last post on behavioral learning. In my defense, I was on a train when I wrote it. I don’t know what that […]
Behavioral Learning
2013-11-4 – I am riding Amtrak’s Empire Builder across Wisconsin as the sun is setting. Today is the first full day after the switch from daylight savings time and […]
Corporate Subsidy
2013-11-03 – A couple days ago there was a post floating around Facebook saying that US taxpayers, on average, pay $36 apiece per year to support the food stamp program […]
Rand Paul and Fiction
2013-10-31 – People are up in arms about Rand Paul’s “plagiarism” of a Wikipedia article on the science fiction film Gattaca. I’m not going to join that chorus. He used […]
Global Questions
2013-10-29 – You listen to people of faith. You listen to people of science. And you hear the same stuff. Talk about beginning. Talk about ends. Talk about how we […]
Flip Side of Francis
Pope Francis has sent the world into a tizzy with these words: “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.” To […]
HealthCare.gov is Very Extremely Average
2013-10-24 – Jon Stewart thinks it’s a scandal that only 10% of the people who went to HealthCare.gov completed the process (i.e., bought health insurance—at approx. 02:40 of this video). […]
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