On the Antikythera mechanism.  A familiar name appears: Parmenides may be the source for the measurements of two planets in this analog comp...

Worth reconsidering in light of the present moment, and the last several years -- or even the last six months. I am posting it here because ...

Some people can’t visualize mental images. Those people also aren’t scared by ghost stories. 

This idea seems to get proposed just from time to time, and the time has come around again in the UK. The problem, as Wretchard points out, ...

I had a YouTube Tom Lehrer set on all afternoon, but whoever put it together started interspersing other music he likes, including this band...

Taking a break from all the unity and healing to escape into Gilbert and Sullivan and Rodgers and Hammerstein. "I don't say I'...

Parmenides now moves on to raise two stern objections to Socrates' theory of Forms. Edith Hamilton's translation has a very brief i...

A sad song, all around; perhaps especially in its embrace of betrayal of friendship to power and wealth. They're right: Lefty needs your...

So, how is this different in principle from a Federal law stating that "all states that accept funds from the Federal government shall...

In the days before the election, Wisconsin gave a Democratic activist the keys to the room where absentee ballots were stored. 

After young Socrates proposes the theory of Forms , Parmenides and Zeno are described as paying "the closest attention" to him, ...

It's been nearly a year since I was first startled by a bizarre new trend: a concerted effort to prevent doctors from communicating th...

Karen Hao in the MIT Technology Review has an interesting article titled " How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you ....

They'll stop at nothing .

The task force established to review how to protect Congress from the American people calls for a permanent military presence . 

The Georgia Star filed an Open Records law request for chain of custody documents on the 600,000 ballots dropped off at “drop boxes.” Sixty...

With all of that mental furniture about Zeno in place, it will be much easier to tackle the Parmenides . We will nevertheless do it in stage...

Hot Air links this discussion on lessons for post-pandemic life : Life events play a role in happiness. The pandemic darkened spirits, but a...

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...