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Via Xitter ,  Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies ; which appears to be a project at the LSE . My  Book Review: ...

Many years ago I transcribed  R. W. Wood: Note on the Theory of the Greenhouse onto my personal website (yes, it really was that long ago;...

Re-reading - for reasons of my own - my much-lauded review of Crowley's Beasts , I find  I will repeat what I said in my review of Hear...

Per SCOTUSblog and any number of other sources Supreme Court rules states cannot remove Trump from ballot for insurrection . This looks lik...

In Godel Escher Bach  there is a story about an Ant Heap. I think it's a conversation between Achilles and the Anteater, but I could be...

I remember - vaguely - the good ol' dayes when I used to talk about climate. So let's consider The Conversation's Atlantic Oce...

Or so said Ford. Or somewhat more exactly , " History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live ...

Sez the Graun ; h/t Timmy . With subhead " Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental co...

Shamelessly and I think unironically posted in the Economist  ( arch ). It is the usual lazy unthinking tripe that such people can spew out...

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals / Everybody happy as the dead come home , as Shriekback put it . However once again I am going t...

Welcome to 2024. We start with a light post, on the topic of Michael " Meritocratic " Sandel 's early work, indeed his first b...

Per 2022 , blogging in general and this blog in particular continue the long slow slide into obsolescence. Following long established conve...

Before going off for Christmas I made a doomed attempt to buy second-hand books as presents, and succeeded only in buying myself a few slim...

Happy Christmas, world, and any remaining readers I may have. I encourage you to leave festive greetings in the comments so that you may be...

Well, that's what Quillette says . I suppose they hope to do better than the failed Conservapedia . They have  five fundamental princip...

Every now and again I do a marathon on the erg, though I don't usually blog it. In fact I think I've done four over the years; the ...

More of the usual from the Graun . Let's quote: ‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after c...

Or so CarbonBrief tells me . And it seems entirely plausible, so I won't quibble their numbers. But looking at some of their other ...

I've noticed that the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt is often described as "closed", rather than "closed by"...

Following my acclaimed analysis of how I came to peace with the world , I feel moved to offer advice to the world: care less. This applies...