Shadowed figures stare at lit boxesPower of knowledge from all ages at their…
Is Science the only Way of Knowing?
An excellent discussion from one of the leading bloggers on science and academia.
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Scientism
This is a very clear discussion of how Scientism can distort the entire philosophical discussion around ethics, morality, and religion. Even if the individual who is touting it is being sincere. I highly recommend reading it over.
For everyone who heard about the Heartbleed vulnerability. OpenSSL is the foundation that develops this encryption standard used by a very large chunk of the web. Here is a note from them…
Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.
~ St Augustine of Hippo.
Now, I’m going to expose a bit of my weakness here. Some of you may be more familiar with the story behind St…
I have been reading way too much of late, and I started to come to a weird and disconcerting conclusion. Many of the ‘truths’ that I read every day may not actually be the end of the story.
Anyone who has been watching the world crisis is probably well aware of the extreme unemployment issues among the youth in Spain and Greece. Spain, I believe has been formally past 50% unemployment for a while. Greece is the same, or will be there…
People who have sat down at my compute to use it on the web discover very quickly that I run a tight ship. I view surfing and the work I do on the web similar to how many people view sex. If I do a lot of it, with a lot of unknown…
Accessibility has become something that all Small and Medium Businesses should be aware of and have action plans for.
I’ve been asked over and over for good books about mathematics for a layperson, someone who hasn’t taken advanced courses in university and is more simply interested in learning about what math is, and some of the more interesting…
