Monday last, went off to the see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Melbourne Museum (go after lunch on any weekday and the session is not likely to be booked out). I greatly enjoyed it. I did not bother with the audio tape, as I like to form my own impressions. One can certainly see that Egypt influenced Greek sculpture, for example ( Read more... )

Question: why do trees make the best post-modern revolutionary mascots?

Answer: because, unlike the workers, they cannot answer back.

If one judges matters by intentions (such as by presuming that effects flow from intentions), one lives in a very congenial world. You are always right, because your intentions are always good. Those who disagree with you must, therefore, have “wrong” intentions and so always be wrong ( Read more... )

The latest breakthrough in Pentagon PR technology.

Bullet-proof bra for German policewomen.

In the online world, there are 6.6. degrees of separation.

Evolution does not produce perfectly adapted things, just what works. Council of Europe statement on Creationism.

Suggested 10 Commandments on genetics and race“Baby” speak to Alzheimer’s ( Read more... )

Jonathon Rhys Meyers being all Tudor or something.

Pictures from Kuwait.

A blog that keeps track of piracy issues worldwide - as in the kind that attack ships at sea, not online folk. What the Sea Shepherds have been getting up to in protesting at Japanese whaling is somewhat piratical.

Grading the world’s flags. The methodology used ( Read more... )

It is a profoundly enlightening experience, to read a clearly written, knowledgeable book that takes some of the points you have been groping towards and puts them in a much more complete context.

Stephen Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is such an enlightening book. So enlightening that, having ( Read more... )