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Linkfest 2021-11-19: Common Good

The Post-Liberal Order: Big Mac Alasdair MacIntyre is a favored philosopher here at With Both Hands. I really enjoyed this account of MacIntyre’s talk “Human Dignity: A Puzzling and Possibly Dangerous Idea?“ I had always found dignity a bit vacuous of a concept, but I hadn’t realized just

Linkfest 2021-11-12: Berserker Rage

Grey Goose Chronicles: Frenzied like the Wolf Another great free post from Stone Age Herbalist, this time about the curious phenomenon of going berserk. Like a lot of Fortean phenomena, since this does not neatly fit into our mental categories it is easy not to think about too much. However,

Linkfest 2021-10-30: The Great Filter

The thread that accompanies this joke resume that got interviews does an excellent job of explaining how really popular companies screen their resumes. This does have a number of undesirable effects, but it would be worth reflecting on what other filtering mechanics might actually work in this situation. It isn’

Linkfest 2021-10-22: Vikings of the Pacific

Grey Goose Chronicles: The Vikings of the Pacific - Part One The Haida are one of those people who, if you are of an anthropological persuasion, become something of an obsession. Like the Dogon or the Calusa, they have acquired a legendary status, in no small part due to their

Linkfest 2021-10-15: The Limits of Chaos

DarwinCatholic: War, Mobilization, and the Nation State Friend of the blog DarwinCatholic looks at a concept we discuss here often, the capacity of the nation state to mobilize and organize its people for grand proejcts. DarwinCatholic: Soldier Cultures, Warrior Cultures In a follow-up to the above, DarwinCatholic looks at the

Linkfest 2021-09-17: The Great Tree

A thread on the strange connections in technological development. And my favorite comment, a joke about Civilization tech trees. BBC: Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era The now long defunct Anthropogene blog had some great stuff on the pre-history of Arabia. There was a time when Arabia was

Linkfest 2021-09-10: The Suck Button

The illustrations in this week’s linkfest are from Robert McCall (1919 - 2010), NASA’s visual historian and Arizona resident. I had seen this Far Side cartoon when I was a kid, and it seemed funny at the time. Little did I realize that it had a real story