I recently decided to watch a series of lectures on ancient Greek history. Dr. Donald Kagan taught history at Yale University for over 40 years. In the days that followed my decision, I became enthralled with Dr. Kagan’s penetrating perspective on the importance of those ancient events. He convinced me that they are still relevant […]
I’ve been on a music/guitar jag recently, and I’m particularly impressed with the YouTube content offered by Ian Stich, under his moniker “StichMethod Guitar.” Ian has a Patreon page here, and his YouTube page is here. Check ’em out!
My (almost) seventeen year old daughter’s current notebook computer is a Dell Inspiron 7375. Nothing wrong with it – it’s treated her fine. Except for the charging adaptor, which stopped working after just a few months. We ordered a compatible one from Amazon. Didn’t work. Not because the product failed to produce voltage, but rather […]
Things happening in the world these days scare me – a lot. I don’t like to wade into arguments. But what I see going on around me is a willingness to “silence opposition” that is more pronounced than it’s ever been before. The recent controversy around Reddit anti-vax communities is the trigger that has me […]
Reading Arrival of the Fittest, by Andreas Wagner, today. In the promotional material for the book, Wagner made a tall promise: that he would explain how the chemical constituents needed to “bootstrap” life could have formed on primordial Earth faster than one would expect given nothing but random chaining of amino acids. I haven’t gotten […]
Well, I drifted away for a while; just got busy with work and family. Right now my leisure time’s mostly spent on physics and guitar. I’m particularly enjoying guitar instruction videos by Steve Stine, Jake Lizzio, and “StitchMethod Guitar” (I haven’t picked up that fellow’s name yet). On the physics front I’m particularly excited right […]
One of my biggest peeves in the physics world is the idiocy of the Everettian Many Worlds interpretation of quantum theory, characterized by this quote from Sean Carroll: There was nothing stochastic or random about any of this process, the entire evolution was perfectly deterministic. It’s not right to say “Before the measurement, I didn’t […]
Ran across this link via Jason Kottke’s kottke.org site: “Side Hustle” as a Sign of the Apocalypse. This is one of the most cogent, spot-on description of how our world’s evolving that I’ve seen in ages.
I’ve watched something amazing happen over the last couple of weeks. The left-leaning part of our society is suddenly worried. Not just about Donald Trump per se, but about a whole host of things. I wish I still had the link, but about two days after the election I read a post by someone calling […]