Consensus in Science 2019-12-03 | Reading time: 1 minute A great one-page editorial about the issue of consensus in science.[show the article]
Recommendation: The Art of Manliness Podcast 2019-10-19 | Reading time: 1 minute An (so far) interesting podcast addressing a lot of different topics.[show the article]
What’s in a name? 2019-10-18 | Reading time: 2 minutes One of the easiest and ugliest tricks movements do is to give themselves positively sounding names, like …4future.[show the article]
Recommendation: Steven Pinker: “An Unnecessary Defense of Reason and a Necessary Defense of the University’s Role in Advancing It” 2019-10-16 | Reading time: 1 minute Steven Pinker's Keynote talk at the 2nd Heterodox Academy Annual Conference in June 2019 is well worth listening to.Image: Half Hour of Heterodoxy Logo[show the article]
Climate Change Activism 2019-10-15 | Reading time: 4 minutes Some thoughts on Fridays4Future, Students4Future, and Scientist4Future -- and strikes at schools and universities.Image: Pale Blue Dot.[show the article]
False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German) 2019-10-04 | Reading time: 1 minute Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).[show the article]
DEVONthink 3 — Where the heck is DEVONthink going? 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 4 minutes DEVONthink 3 looks sleek (if colorless) and comes with new features. More important is what they ditched, and possibly whom.[show the article]
Idealistic Youth and (Social) Power 2019-08-10 | Reading time: 2 minutes A short passage from a graphic novel struck a chord — there is a danger when idealistic youth get power beyond their years.[show the article]
Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 16 minutes A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.[show the article]
The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard. 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?[show the article]
