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A Roman Holiday – Chiefio on the problem of no fixes for the same ol’ same ‘ol
I’ve been on an extended holiday from blogging, but since I still seem to have something to say I’ll say just say it now. E.M. Smith aka Chiefio, - I have to get used to this, E.M seems to have...
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Jamcracker Punk-Rock Piracy – the expression of free will by...
So you want to be a pirate? [Pirate Marooned, Howard Pyle, 1910] I seem to have set some kind of a record with this title, Uncle Marshal would...
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Phism of the Day – A quick byte on FaceBook crosstalk – Mircea Eliade the...
Phism of the Day, Phi takes the credit but Wygart writes the words [©Atani Studios 2011] There...
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New Artwork by Atani – towards a new mythology of dispute resolution
Upaya gives Phi a good talking to as Pee looks on [©Atani Studios-2012]Wygart is having some kind of a dispute with a friend elsewhere in the digispherethat...
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The End – Endings are hard, how Spengler hands me the a perfect ending after...
All good things must come to an… [©Atani Studios-2012][Cross-posted at ReadabilityTest] The other day a randomized, automatically...
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Biting Off More Than I Can Chew – Part One – the redacted reply
The E.M. Smith ‘theme’ image, a new PhotoShop hatchet job by Atani [©Atani Studios-2012] [You will note that we now have a Musings from the Chiefio theme image at the top of the post. We will...
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A Comment on Caravaggio and a Thought Experiment
The Incredulity of St Thomas – Truth comes to the doubter [Caravagio c.1601]A reader left a comment on the image of The Incredulity of Saint-Thomas by Caravaggio...
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A Resignation at EPFL – A rejection of mediocrity in academia or academic...
In the last few days an interesting missive has been circulating in the blogosphere, a letter of resignation from an anonymous PhD candidate at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, one of...
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A Quick Sylogism on Rothchild – sorting the conspiratorial from the evolutionary
People send me things. Original attribution unknown This came across the electronic desktop this morning, sent to me by a friend. Here’s a quick syllogism on the subject....
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Giving and Volunteerism, Charity or an Expensive form of Entertainment? – Law...
Maimonides -public domain One of the joys of blogging, a rare joy around here, is receiving the...
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The Conspiracy of the Like Minded-truth in data as big lie
Fig 1 – The latest hack from the Hadley Centre [©METoffice 2014] The official caption: “Figure 3: Observed (black, from Hadley Centre, GISS...
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Science Eats Her Young – Consensus vs Correctness, the Scientific vs the...
Karl Popper, the godfather of falsifiability [© phi studios 2014]There is a new guest article up at Judy Curry’s blog, Climate Etc. by Will...
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In Moderation Limbo – Michael Mann’s legal fictions
The treason trial of Aaron Burr, legal pleadings or legal fictions? A Comment Lost in Limbo Steve McIntyre. announced a change in moderation policy a few days ago at his blog Climate Audit in...
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PAGES2K Non-Corrigendum, Which Way is Up? – Disingenuousness or Defective...
Don’t fall behind the power curve [atani studios ccsa 3.0]This is yet another blog article that fell by the wayside as other projects took...
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Macaulay’s Idea of Progress – the bifurcation of material and social progress...
Thomas Babington Macaulay, National Portrait Gallery, London [John Partridge d.1872] David Berlinski begins his, still unacountably unfinished, book The Best of Times with this quote from...
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David Berlinski – On the crisis of historiography-Uncommon Knowledge and what...
The something lost? The City of God [manuscript at the NY Public Library]Here is some more of David Berlinski being interviewed by Peter Robinson on the contrast of...
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The Theodicy of φ
Heraclitus instructs Leibniz: “τῷ μὲν θεῷ καλὰ πάντα καὶ ἀγαθὰ καὶ δίκαια, ἄνθρωποι δὲ ἃ μὲν ἄδικα ὑπειλήφασιν ἃ δὲ δίκαια.”...
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Argument from ignorance? – Berlinski on the Question: How in the world could...
Attention: This is not necessarily an article about Intelligent Design; this is an article about how we think, how we think about scientific propositions, how we think about our own and other...
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The Banality of Art? – a conversation with the late Arthur C. Danto on the...
Aesthetics Philosophy of the Arts, Films for the Humanities and Sciences © 2004 I discovered the above video the other day on YouTube: Aesthetics, Philosophy of the Arts, it seemed interesting and...
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A Fragment of Aix
Raku tea bowl [chris 73 CC BY-SA 3.0] I am the Artist that Plato warned you of, the one who knows...
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