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The Annals of Epistemology, Vol. 13: Oops…

Dr. John Ioannidis Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation...

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Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music…

… and not just any old way you choose it, but selected and explicated by that master of American music– both classical and popular– Leonard Bernstein: Inside Pop – The Rock Revolution is a CBS News...

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I’ll take the low road…

source: Argonne National Laboratory Cartoonist Rube Goldberg sketched ironic paeans to parsimony– cartoons depicting the simplest of things being done in the most elaborate and complicated of ways....

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“Curiosity has its own reason for existence”*…

  The Voynich Manuscript is a special kind of original. We know, thanks to carbon dating, that it was put together in the early fifteenth century. But no living person has ever, as far as we know,...

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“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived,...

One notes that there are only three states with unique predators: two with apex predators– Alaska (the polar bear); Florida (the crocodile)– and Hawaii (the domestic cat). A ‘o ia! The largest land...

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