I recently spent some time bingeing on Sons of Anarchy, a ridiculous show about a fictional California motorcycle club. I got bored and stopped watching…
[posting late as I was too tired to edit this last night] OK, so week 2. At least this time there is something to record….
[Dislcaimers/potential confounders: ↳ At the time of writing, I have been taking SSRIs (for depression) on and off for about 3 years, but consistently for…
Yikes. What can I say folks, this week was a bust. I did make tangential progress on the music front in the form of sorting…
We live in a profoundly conceptual era. Never before in human history has so much of what we do, how we do it, and why…
Over at Slate Star Codex, Scott Alexander has been responding to a Jim Baggot piece at Aeon criticisng ‘post-empirical science’. This is already a response…
If there’s one thing I got out of studying philosophy, it’s an appreciation for the obvious. A tremendous amount of contemporary philosophy is focused on…
I once worked for a school, as a kind of transport assistant for special needs pupils. One of my most vivid memories from that period…
So yesterday I wrote up a sort of rambling ‘about’ page, which as promised I’m going to keep ‘on file’ so to speak. But I’m…