Thinking Out Aloud

I have long been fond of vampire stories, particularly films and TV shows. This is something of a cliche among same-sex attracted folk -...

Classical ( 622  to  c.940) and early medieval Islam was a civilisation and period with a rich philosophical tradition. Yet Islam became a...

This very short post  by philosopher Stephen Hicks states that: *Metaphysically*, philosophy was born with Thales and the Milesians. *Epi...

This is based on a comment I made here . If you think the bodies are sexed (clearly true) and psyches are sexed (a bit murkier, but broad...

Recently read the following comment : A second example i’ll give is Black Lives Matter. One is labeled racist/white supremacist/white nat...

A useful podcast on what data science is, how to use and what gets in the way of using it. Part of a continuing series .

I find the persistence of belief in socialism surprising (an example here ), particularly given that Venezuela and North Korea both, in t...

This is based on a comment I made here . If turning points in asset prices could be reliably predicted, they wouldn't happen (since n...

Ron Unz has produced two pieces of statistical analysis on ethnicity and crime in the US providing evidence that there is no distinctive t...