Doubt the Experts

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...

Some excellent writing  by Jennifer Rubin.

Spring is really getting started here, and the plants are taking off. I've decided to vacuum the back porch once a year after the pollen...

I finally finished the book. Darwin died in 1882 at the age of 73 and Dickinson died in 1886 at the age of 55. I think that Bergland succeed...

I am gradually approaching the end of this book and should finish it by my next post. It is literally putting me to sleep on some days. Thou...

When Dickinson returned to Amherst in 1848 at the age of seventeen, she gradually settled into what was to become her adult life. In 1851, t...

I've reached the halfway point in the book and am enjoying it, but am mainly reading it in bed at night for a few minutes at a time. Not...

Because I had such a hard time finding good reading material over the winter, I got out of the habit of reading regularly, and now, with spr...

Just as winter abruptly ended, I came across this new book by Renée Bergland, and it suits me perfectly. I'm not sure how quickly I'...

I've been reading Understanding Human Evolution , by Ian Tattersall, which is a recent summary of the research and is similar to his The...

I've been reading a biography of Tennessee Williams, mainly to find out more about his relationship with Carson McCullers. Tennessee is ...

I've been reading Shelley: The Pursuit , by Richard Holmes, and, though I thought I'd finish it, I've just decided to give up. T...

Ordinarily I would have found an appropriate book and be commenting on it by now, but there is a hit-and-miss aspect to finding the right bo...

I just watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" for the first time in many years and thought I'd write about it today. Th...

Since I'm still having a lot of trouble finding something to read, I thought that I'd write a bit about the world situation, particu...

I've been reading Out of Africa , by Isak Dinesen, which I think is good, but I haven't become excited enough to plow through it. It...

With a fifty percent reduction in the number of household members, things get quite slow here during the holidays. However, I do have close ...

My River runs to thee— Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me? My River waits reply— Oh Sea—look graciously— I'll fetch thee Brooks From spotted nook...