Doubt the Experts

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...

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'...