Tag: World War I
Living Amid a Pandemic: Wisdom from C.S. Lewis
Remember the admonition of C.S. Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.”
Human Nature — New Book from David Berlinski Skewers Illusion of Evolutionary Progress in History
Berlinski schools Steven Pinker, the famed Harvard cognitive psychologist, on the relevant math, reminding him that “poorly defined problems very often lead to absurd solutions.”
Of Whales and Timescales
The changes involved in adapting a generic mammalian template into a whale are certainly not all simple, independent, single-letter changes.