“The basic reason why the concept of truth will never die is that to believe anything at all is itself to take a stand on its truth.” #SimonBlackburn #OnTruth

In NYC for PEL’a 10th Anniversary recording at Caveat tomorrow! caveat.nyc/event/the-part…

In NYC for PEL’s 10th Anniversary recording at Caveat! caveat.nyc/event/the-part…

Courtesy of Cormac McCarthy, the word for the day is "thrapple" as in "split the head of John Joel Glanton to the thrapple."

Patent sanity -- no patent protection for genes nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/…

Learn QFT in five minutes, with some extras on quantum gravity for chuckles:youtube.com/watch?feature=…

Nietzsche 1887: One thinks with a watch in one's hand, even as one eats one's midday meal while reading the latest news of the stock market

Here's my brief statement about the awful events in Paris. Vive Charlie Hebdo! p.ost.im/jG6HxY

Education is opportunity: Tom Hanks on His Two Years at Chabot College nyti.ms/1508PAq

A measure-system measures something inherent in nature; otherwise it has no connexion with nature at all. #whitehead

Check out this cool perspective on the Earth and Moon from NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory: nasa.gov/feature/goddar…

@FredKiesche The Partially Examined Life Just checked via Chrome on MacBook -- works.

@FredKiesche The Partially Examined Life Not on your end, Fred. Site got hammered and exhausted the RAM. Fixed now.

#VoiceSaveMark

Space-time got curves 100 years ago: A Century Ago, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Changed Everything, via The New York Times nytimes.com/2015/11/24/sci…

Not being able to borrow a book from a library is like not being able to eat at a restaurant

when a mechanic diagnoses that intermittent electrical gremlin...be quiet when you write the check...you are in the presence of genius.

Read it now -- The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Crawford #theworldbeyondyourhead #MatthewCrawford

Don't let anyone tell you that a question buried is a question answered. #letterstoayoungmuslim #OmarGhobash

There is no knowledge that is wrong. Only knowledge that is difficult, troubling, enlightening, liberating, and intoxicating. #OmarGhobash