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An unlikely nexus

This month's Public Square column in First Things magazine by R. R. Reno has interesting parallels with Steve Sailer's Selecting for Conformity post. Each man expresses himself in a characteristic idiom, Reno the language of social justice and Sailer evolutionary biology, but it seems that they

Probability ebook

From John D Cook's @ProbFact twitter account, comes this free ebook, Principles of Uncertainty. How many books on probablility do I need? I haven't found out yet.

Who Says Philosophical Problems are Unsolvable?

Via Peter Sean Bradley, I learn that Molyneux's problem has been answered empirically. It only took 300 years to figure this out. If a blind person were suddenly able to see, would he be able to recognize by sight the shape of an object he previously knew only

Falkenberg's Legion (The Prince) Book Review

The Mercenary, by Jerry Pournelle (1977) Pocket Books, New York West of Honor, by Jerry Pournelle (1978 Pocket Books, New York Prince of Mercenaries, by Jerry Pournelle (1989) Pocket Books, New York Go Tell the Spartans, by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling (1991) Pocket Books, New York Prince of

Selfish Reasons to have more Kids

Via Steve Sailer. Jonathan Last reviews a new book by Brian Kaplan, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The best message I got out of the review is that we can stop worrying about providing a perfect childhood to mold our children, because you really can't mold children.

Aquinas and Neuroscience

Non-linear Brain Dynamics and Intention According to Aquinas, by Walter J. Freeman. Abstract We humans and other animals continuously construct and maintain our grasp of the world by using astonishingly small snippets of sensory information. Recent studies in nonlinear brain dynamics have shown how this occurs: brains imagine possible futures

The Concrete Universal in Literature

James Chastek at Just Thomism writes on the concrete universals we find in literature [poetry as Aristotle would say]. There is a real likeness to the sort of perfection of knowledge that is most manifest in the experiment. Just as we can get an insight into all forces by seeing