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Linkfest 2017-03-26

Tollense Battle Last summer I posted an article about a battlefield from the Bronze Age. Here is another article about the same archaeological site, with an alternative explanation of what happened. Archaeology always requires interpretation, so it is wise to keep in mind exactly what you found, and how it

The Long View: The Coming World Civilization

The most interesting idea to come out of this book by William Ernest Hocking is the 'unlosables', those aspects of a culture that persist even when the society that created them falls into decay. It the unlosables that we speak of when we refer to the Greek or

LinkFest 2016-06-10

A review on Night Enhancement Eyedrops using Chlorin e6 This is pretty nutty, but really interesting. Self-experimentation involving a photosensitizer compound to enhance night vision. Heavy Boots I came across this physics teaching post about the effect of gravity, and how a philosophy grad student misinterpreted it. Possibly apocryphal, but

The Long View 2004-03-05: Power; Decadence; Blackmun & the Terror War

Cold fusion is one of those ideas that just won't die. Sure, I'd love it to be real too, but when something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Especially in a field that has failed so spectacularly so many times. Sonoluminescence, the phenomenon

LinkFest 2016-05-06

The 'white squatter camps' of post Apartheid South Africa The South African apartheid regime was memorably described as "socialism for the Afrikaners, capitalism for the English-speaking whites and Indians, and fascism for the blacks." Now that the boot is on the other foot, the Afrikaners and

LinkFest 2016-04-30

Titan's Great Lakes Appear to be Filled with Clear, Colorless Methane Hopefully we will be up to the task if any life is found on the moons of other planets. Why is Reaction Taboo? Any treatment of the rising right in either America or Europe needs to take

The Long View: Life's Solution

This is a line of argument John often pursued with regard to genetics. I am somewhat sympathetic to a teleological reading of evolution, but I also know that I am wayyyy out of my depth in this subject. Most of my reading in genetics has been of very recent adaptations