When you need a large reflective surface with the shape that happens to be defined by the inverse-square law, why not let gravity do the wo...

The weird thing is, the sticking point for the mother of the Baltimore high school senior seems not to be that he's 18 now and hasn...

 

The formerly-"National" Guard to receive a new award  and a new service ribbon. Tens of thousands of National Guard troops who dep...

Gringo misplaced a comment, but it deserves to be raised to the main page anyway because he has a much better version of the 'Dolly Part...

I'm not going to deal with Zeno's 'moving columns' approach because we don't have enough to know what exactly it was he ...

If you remember "Sose the Ghost," the outlaw biker who was talking about maybe supporting police against BLM/Antifa rioters, he...

I don't think I've ever heard a word from any P.T.A., anywhere I've ever lived. Apparently they once thought they were worthy of...

I don't think much of the Vox piece either, but the Hot Air summary doesn't do it justice.  They actually did have one good point,...

No Aristotle or Zeno or Plato today; I'm planning a trip into Asheville. It's a sad town these days, but hopefully the spring will s...

I lost interest in this a long time ago, but everyone I know is sending it to me today because they remember me saying this part of it way ...

Sticking with the same two sources as yesterday, the Stanford article  (by one John Palmer) and Aristotle's Physics 6 , I'll now wal...

As a preface to Tom's  attempt on the Parmenides , let's look at an article about Zeno and then at Aristotle's Physics 6 . The r...

Here is a fun test in which you can learn about how some people hear differently from others.

An estate is very dear to every man, if he can enjoy there in his house whatever is right and proper in constant prosperity. So says the Ang...

The American Mind has a helpful summary of Plato’s ideas in the Republic on the present difficulty. Since we’ve just finished reading the ...

 Some kinds of probability puzzles are particularly difficult: 1% of women at age forty who participate in routine screening have breast ca...

 They're probably never going to get that Trump and his enthusiasts aren't interested in preserving the GOPe. Donald Trump is on a ...

The cancel culture came for the Muppets, so I suppose Dr. Seuss is not surprising. But he was always 'woke,' as AVI points out that...

 Gives me the warm fuzzies .