Linkage
Student cheating and the law of below averages. (Some of the comment anecdotes are extremely funny.)
Did you participate in Global Orgasm Day?
Something to read to get that sense of unfolding disaster.
About the art of conversation.
Bob Dylan’s Christmas broadcast displays distinct class: This week, we start being heard in England. So, we want to wish everybody a very merry Christmas, and for the duration of this show, anytime I use the word “humor,” “color” or “favor,” I’ll be adding an extra “u.”
Defining the snob hit. Meanwhile, Hollywood has managed quite a few dud films this year. But they were mostly ordinary-sized flops.
Miles Davis doing Jazz (and a silly musical joke).
A very Japanese promo for a new process of ageing wine through electrolysis.
About Dawkins on religion and failing to grapple with religious thought.
A fascinating comparison with experience with the British and American health systems.
James Brown has died.
Can Europe find a European Dream?
Looking for planets in other solar systems.
About Carl Sagan’s descent from scientist to would-be sage: Of the four physical artifacts that humanity has managed to propel the farthest into space (Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and Voyagers 1 and 2), all of them contain messages designed by Sagan to be interpreted by alien civilizations. If anyone happens to ask you how far ambition and brilliance can take a man, there's a fairly precise answer: 15.2 billion kilometres.
Climate change alarmism has a long history.
Audio downloads of CERC (Contemporary European Research Centre) seminars here.
Nadine Gordimer and the perils of biography.
A wonderful eulogy for Tory journalist Frank Johnson: He was not only a believer in individualism, he went to the extreme length of being an individual. The purely political aspect of this individuality was that he liked to distinguish himself from any conservative orthodoxy. Again, however, he usually found respectably conservative grounds for doing so.
(And there was a simple cure that we more orthodox figures could employ to draw him back into our ranks-namely, to arrange for Frank to attend a left-wing gathering.)
Why husbands tend to be bigger issues than wives for political candidates.
Comparing Pinochet and Castro.
The Iranian President had a bad week in Iranian domestic politics.
Did you participate in Global Orgasm Day?
Something to read to get that sense of unfolding disaster.
About the art of conversation.
Bob Dylan’s Christmas broadcast displays distinct class: This week, we start being heard in England. So, we want to wish everybody a very merry Christmas, and for the duration of this show, anytime I use the word “humor,” “color” or “favor,” I’ll be adding an extra “u.”
Defining the snob hit. Meanwhile, Hollywood has managed quite a few dud films this year. But they were mostly ordinary-sized flops.
Miles Davis doing Jazz (and a silly musical joke).
A very Japanese promo for a new process of ageing wine through electrolysis.
About Dawkins on religion and failing to grapple with religious thought.
A fascinating comparison with experience with the British and American health systems.
James Brown has died.
Can Europe find a European Dream?
Looking for planets in other solar systems.
About Carl Sagan’s descent from scientist to would-be sage: Of the four physical artifacts that humanity has managed to propel the farthest into space (Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and Voyagers 1 and 2), all of them contain messages designed by Sagan to be interpreted by alien civilizations. If anyone happens to ask you how far ambition and brilliance can take a man, there's a fairly precise answer: 15.2 billion kilometres.
Climate change alarmism has a long history.
Audio downloads of CERC (Contemporary European Research Centre) seminars here.
Nadine Gordimer and the perils of biography.
A wonderful eulogy for Tory journalist Frank Johnson: He was not only a believer in individualism, he went to the extreme length of being an individual. The purely political aspect of this individuality was that he liked to distinguish himself from any conservative orthodoxy. Again, however, he usually found respectably conservative grounds for doing so.
(And there was a simple cure that we more orthodox figures could employ to draw him back into our ranks-namely, to arrange for Frank to attend a left-wing gathering.)
Why husbands tend to be bigger issues than wives for political candidates.
Comparing Pinochet and Castro.
The Iranian President had a bad week in Iranian domestic politics.