What Do I Know?

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...

[This was written Sept. 22, but I wrote it under Pages instead of Posts.  Pages are the tabs up above (and below the banner.  So I'm add...

Suppose you're still buying the same brand of cereal your mom bought for you.   But after years of loyalty, you've noticed that it n...

A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...

This is an important interview by Brian Taylor Cohen, one of the brightest and most articulate commentators (I want to say on the air, and h...

Bear with me for a bit. (Or don't and just scroll down to JUMP TO HERE below.) I've been learning Turkish on Duolingo for a while.  ...

I started to write first impressions of the shots toward the ex-president Saturday night, but I decided to wait til there was more informati...