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The Long View 2004-01-05: Duk Soop

I greatly enjoyed Babylon 5 when it was on television, and I appreciated John's allusion to it here. Duk Soop At this point in the Democratic primary campaign, I suppose that Howard Dean must be feeling a little like Ambassador Londo in the first season of the Babylon

The Long View: Our Stolen Future

This topic is one I have found it rather difficult to write a post about. I've been sitting on this book review of John's for nearly eight months, but it is referenced in the next The Long View blog post, so I need to get it

LinkFest 2016-04-01

April Fool's Edition The CDC is trying to make 86 million Americans sick I've long thought the pre-diabetes thing was a bit foolish. While it is a good thing to be able to quantitate, if you don't understand what you are doing it can

The Long View: Lathspell

This is an appropriate story for Holy Week. Rene Girard is popular in Catholic circles, but I have never really seen his appeal myself. There is a kind of poetic simplicity in the idea of the universal scapegoat, but like many such theories, they pall when you look into the

The Long View 2003-11-20: Snappy Answers

John's 2003 ponderings about Mars in this post and the last are fortuitous, since I just reviewed the Martian by Andy Weir. This is exactly the kind of thing that got me interested in science, and directed me to physics as a field of study. Planetary science has

The Long View 2003-11-20: Incongruous Elements

John guessed correctly in 2003 that the War on Terror postponed culture war issues like gay marriage for the duration of the emergency. Incongruous Elements President Bush gave another one of his remarkable set-speeches at White Hall in London yesterday. As he has been doing since 911, he put the

LinkFest 2016-03-11

Everything is Crumbling Roy Baumeister's most famous theory, ego depletion, has been hit by the social science replication crisis. Baumeister has been featured in this space before. Baumeister's rebuttal to his failed replicators is that they didn't actually follow his methods. I kind of