Photo from Haaretz There’s an old saying that war is God’s way of teaching geography to Americans. These days, even that may not be enough. Now, because of Gary Johnson’s Aleppo gaffe, that city has become a little more familiar … Continue reading →
Dolors, the physicist/mathematician/philosopher who posts as Cracking the Nutshell on YouTube, publishes more content than I can regularly follow, but this morning I watched one that was so good, I felt motivated to comment. She’s also a respectful critic of … Continue reading →
Here’s the link for the video that’s meant to draw readers to the slide deck titled, “What’s at Stake in the Information Debate.”
Continue reading →Here’s the Slideshare content on my response to Derek Muller’s “How Much Information” on his Veritasium YouTube Channel. What's at Stake in the Information Debate? from Craig Simon
Continue reading →During a Facebook conversation in the wake of Bill Kristol’s appearance on Bill Maher, one of my Frisbee buddies liked my take on the Tea Party. I reposted it on Bill Maher’s page. I think it’s a huge mistake to … Continue reading →
The aspiration embodied in the statement “We the people” cast a long shadow in American and human history. William O. Douglas was very savvy in using the term “penumbras” to describe the extension of rights delineated in the Bill of … Continue reading →
Old attitudes die hard, and especially the one about humans beings possessing properties that can’t be explained by biological evolution. A good example appeared recently at “The Stone,” a soap box for distinguished philosophers provided by The New York Times. … Continue reading →
Bill Keller, managing editor of the New York Times, took a stand for sanity in an article concerning the importance of asking the current crop of GOP presidential candidates about their professed faith. I do want to know if a … Continue reading →
Thoughtful and cogent stuff from Scott Atran, as usual. (At Huffington Post) I wonder what he has to say about William James’ reflections on the “Moral Equivalent of War.” As I recall, the upshot of that famous article gets at … Continue reading →
I’ve been playing with Quora recently. It’s a crowd-sourced Q&A site… intriguingly slick, but a let down so far. They should talk to me about how to combine queued vetting, ranked choice voting, and coalescent bubbling. In any case, the … Continue reading →
