Category Archives: culture

Quantification is a key concept, modern and still only partially developed: Galileo timed things with his pulse: most people still don’t get it, not even if they’re in a science department at Harvard. Wimbledon is coming, the tennis world, the … Continue reading →

Follows from Anti-Semitism Trumping the Jews 2017 08 21 I’ve long seen the vicious anti-everything just under the verneer of civilization, but I never expected to see it bald, menacing, and unapologetic the way it’s been since Trump’s campaign began … Continue reading →

/ Culture / promoting this from archive to module: Lots of news, all over, confusion over gender. Now some law says people must use bathrooms according to the gender listed on their birth certificates! No, no, if there were any … Continue reading →

/ Culture / Science is the exception. Most people rubberstamp the cosmological model of their culture: flat earth / 3D earth. They have no more interest in how the ideas could be tested than they have competence at testing. Flat? … Continue reading →

/ Culture / I’ve been surrounded by athlete worship all my life: Joe Louis, Dimag, the Mick. As an adult (insofar as I’ve ever been an adult) I’ve really gone crazy, and integrated the genders: Nadia, Stephi, Oxana as well … Continue reading →

/ Culture / I once bled a drop of absinthe, real absinthe, Pernod Brothers, bottled in Paris, 1888 into a glass of water. The instant the cork was loosened on the bottle the apartment was filled with a liquorish reek, … Continue reading →

/ Culture / Since my son’s teen-hood he has disapproved of my usage of terms such as “faggot”. The language has chanted right under our asses: and, as usual, the young, the ignorant, the inexperienced, supervise their elders, those with … Continue reading →