A moment ago, I posted a very long comment in response to a post by Quinn O’Neill at 3QuarksDaily. Ms O’Neill’s post was a response to criticism that she had received after saying, in an earlier piece on the same site, that the most effective strategy for increasing the likelihood that schools will teach a [...]
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A long comment at 3QuarksDaily
Posted by acilius on April 11, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/04/11/a-long-comment-at-3quarksdaily/
The crusader
The other day, I posted about James P. Carse, a longtime professor of religious studies who reminds us that religions are not reducible to sets of beliefs, and who argues that the tendency to treat them as if they were is responsible for much evil in the world. I was reminded of Carse’s arguments yesterday [...]
Posted by acilius on March 24, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/03/24/the-crusader/
Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist?
3quarksdaily is mostly a filter blog, but they do run some original material. For example, here is an intriguing piece about the nature of historical memory.
Posted by acilius on September 29, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/29/will-the-manhattan-project-always-exist/
Terry Eagleton’s “Reflections on the God Debate”
Via 3quarksdaily, an interview in which Terry Eagleton discusses his book, first published this March, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. In his introduction, the interviewer quotes Eagleton as saying that the “New Atheists” (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, etc) “buy their rejection of religion on the cheap.” In the interview, he enlarges on this point, claiming that [...]
Posted by acilius on September 21, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/21/terry-eagletons-reflections-on-the-god-debate/
Why are there 60 minutes in an hour?
Thanks to 3quarksdaily for posting about this article that answers the question “How did the Sumerians count to 12 on one hand and to 60 on two?”
Posted by acilius on June 27, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/27/why-are-there-60-minutes-in-an-hour/
Seeing is feeling is believing
Thanks to 3quarksdaily for linking to this report about how optical illusions and tactile experiences can influence each other. Apparently the senses work together in more ways than cognitive scientists had previously realized.
Posted by acilius on April 11, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/11/seeing-is-feeling-is-believing/
Sons and World Power
Thanks to 3quarksdaily for linking to The New Left Review on Gunnar Heinsohn’s Söhne und Weltmacht (Sons and World Power.) Heinsohn notices that when countries have more young men than they know what to do with, they often go to war. In his book, originally published in 2003, he examines that correlation in depth. Here is an interview Heinsohn [...]
Posted by acilius on March 18, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/18/sohne-und-weltmacht/
A novel interpretation of academic freedom
Thanks to 3quarksdaily for linking to this column by Stanley Fish. I’ve copied four excerpts below: My assessment of the way in which some academics contrive to turn serial irresponsibility into a form of heroism under the banner of academic freedom has now been at once confirmed and challenged by events at the University of [...]
Posted by acilius on February 10, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/02/10/a-novel-interpretation-of-academic-freedom/
Cuneiform tablets
Thanks to 3quarksdaily for linking to this article in The London Review of Books about an ongoing British Museum show called “Babylon: Myth and Reality.” Apparently the exhibition concentrates on cuneiform tablets. The article explains what we know about cuneiform tablets as a medium and speculates on what we may yet learn about them.
Posted by acilius on December 10, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/12/10/cuneiform-tablets/
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