What Do I Know?

 I spend too much time on Bluesky and  Spoutible , but I do get links to articles I probably wouldn't have otherwise seen.  Here are tw...

[Introduction:  As I watch people posting charts and citing statistics to make various cases online, I also realize that only 37+ percent of...

Just in the opening intro to Robert Caro’s Working, I was inspired to take on a project I’d put off for a couple of years now.   Caro reads ...

[I found this draft post from July 2012.  It appears never to have been posted.  But it's interesting to see how what I wrote 12 years a...

In evidential languages, as I understand it, there are verb tenses, which indicate whether the speaker personally witnessed the events they ...

[You'll figure out pretty quickly, I think, that I enjoyed reading this book.  I wanted to read the next chapter as soon as I finished t...

INTRO:   Part I is here.   If you find this topic dry and hard to get your head around, then you are half way there.  Because some of the ...

The previous post, Farrago , meandered into the power struggles in the US and the assault on science in favor of fantastic explanations of t...