Doubt the Experts

I'm up to the year 1860, when Emily turned thirty, and will finish the book within a couple of weeks. During the 1850's, her life to...

For a break from Emily Dickinson, I decided to make a "Diary" post. I really don't like following the news, but thought that I...

When Emily returned home from college in 1848, she was given household assignments, such as cooking and dishwashing. She baked bread for the...

Chinatown.

I am ambling along in the book and will spend several more weeks before finishing. Habegger seems to be recording all of the pertinent infor...

I've started on this long 2002 biography by Alfred Habegger. Normally I might have saved it for winter, but I don't have any other s...

  A walk with Sabine Hossenfelder.

I've sort of been waiting for the Trump administration to implode, but, although it does seem to be occurring, it's still a slow pro...

Today I came across  this short article  on reading versus listening on  3 Quarks Daily , which I usually peruse once a week on Sundays, and...

I'm entering my traditional summer doldrums period, during which I tend to lose interest in everything. My new telescope mount is taking...

If you have been reading this blog much, you will have noticed that my interest in fiction has generally diminished over the last few years;...

I had expected to write about Empire of AI by now, but have decided not to say much. The reason is that it is extremely detailed in a journa...

This summer is turning out to be a little muggier than usual, but the actual temperatures here haven't been that high. The main effect f...

I first posted on this topic, regarding Ludwig Wittgenstein's view of language, over ten years ago. My ideas have evolved quite a bit si...

This is a sort of unusual topic for me, but I decided to write a little about it because Donald Trump has been attacking Jerome Powell, who ...

Though I'm sure that many are becoming unsettled by the recent news, at heart I still find it a little boring. To me this seems like a s...

I've been reading this new book, by Laura Spinney, at a slow pace, and have finally finished it. The discussion concerns the history of ...

As a follow-up to my last post, I thought that some explanation regarding why Donald Trump, who is clearly an incompetent and corrupt leader...

While there is an abundance of information available now for most people to study topics of interest to them, one of my chief sources of cog...

My new telescope mount has arrived, and I will be assembling it shortly. It is of much higher quality than my previous mount and should last...

And he called the multi- tude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which ...

I've been reading this new book by Oguzhan Dincer and Michael Johnston. At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd comment on it, and I...

On and off, I've been writing informally about AI here ever since I started this blog. There have been many advances recently, and, thou...

It finally looks as if mud season is about to wind down. When I lived in Middlebury, my default walks were on roads, so I wasn't usually...