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The Long View 2004-12-15: Good Ideas; Bad Reasons

I read State of Fear and I liked it. I also thought it was massively unfair. It was a fun story, given its premises. Taken as a flight of fantasy, it was a blast. If you think it was an unbiased representation of the facts.... Some of the action in

Linkfest 2017-04-28

How Western Civilization could collapse Cyclical models of history are always popular. Eye Makeup Used To Protect Children Can Poison Them Instead This is something that should be on the short list of things to get rid of that will improve life for everyone. The deep imagery of coal mining

The Long View: Island of the Day Before

The accurate measurement of longitude was a driving force of much of science during the Age of Exploration. A hell of a lot of good research came out of nations competing to do this faster and better, in search of filthy lucre. This is one of the foundational elements of

Linkfest 2017-04-07

* The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World A really fun map, and as the article reluctantly notes, not especially credulous about the tall tales travelers shared. * How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons I've linked stories on Uber's evil genius

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

Organelle Transplant

Yesterday on Twitter, Razib Khan remarked that he hadn't realized pro-life Christians relate genetics to souls. had a conversation about 'three parent babies' yesterday. i realized i don't know how christians relate genetics to souls?March 19, 2017 Since I wasn't party

Linkfest 2017-03-17: St. Patrick's Feast Day Edition

No evidence to back idea of learning styles Steven Pinker [among others] writes a letter to the Guardian against currently fashionable learning styles fads in education. In the post pointing to this, Steve Sailer offers a mild counterpoint based on his position that a lot of "neuroscience" findings