Good news for pomophobes, Julian Baggini has a new game poking fun at certain critical postures in academia: Žižuku. I much prefer this to the postmodernism generator as a satirical tool.
A post from Revise and Dissent archived here. You can add your comment on this at HNN.
There’s some fundamental rules about life which really ought to be in the manual. The yellow snow one. The one aout not drinking anything from a bottle with a worm in it. Another one is never assume that the news media have given a fair and accurate account of…
[Cross-posted to Revise & Dissent]
Here’s another paper I’ll have to cite, Time-Space Context of Moon-Related Beliefs by Jaak Jaaniste. It’s downloadable as a PDF paper from Folklore: The Electronic…
I had a slight worry earlier today. I have an idea that I think has cross-over relevance…
I had a surprisingly busy day today so here’s the meme I’ve been working on: The Five Best Police…
Delphi — it’s a long way uphill.
A view of Etna from Taormina. Photo (cc) Richard Carter.
I saw it and it was like the Curate’s Egg, good in parts.
The big idea is something Mike Parker Pearson has been pushing for a long while. Stonehenge is a place for the dead, and important in funerary rites. I’ve been wary of this. An astronomer thought it was a giant…
Oscillococcinum is a remarkable substance. It’s a homeopathic remedy which fights the Oscillococcus bacterium. Now some sceptics will balk at that and ask how a homeopathic medicine can fight anything. That’s not a problem in this case as Oscillococcus probably doesn’t exist…
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