A Partial Index of Ideas within this Blog

I write about whatever interests me.  Below is a representative sample from the 454 previous posts.

Language and Thought

• Art as Ordered Narrative
• Language and Thought: As You Think, So You Speak 
• Linguistics Debate: What Colors are Your Rainbow? 
• The Living Fish Swims Under Water 
• Indian English: Totally Legend Like Anything  
• Akkadian Roots of Modern Semitic Languages  
• Sandor Kőrösi Csoma 
• Readability is the Only Metric  
• Not Less Grammar Errors  

Philosophy

• Understanding Objectivism  
• The Influence of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism 
• Gregory M. Browne’s Necessary Factual Truths  
• More on Necessary Factual Truths  
• Harriman’s Logical Leap  
• Harriman’s Logical Leap AlmostMakes It  
• Browne on Kuhn 
• The Validity of the Senses  
• Imaginary Numbers are Real; Pegasus is Not  
• The Problem of Induction: Karl Popper and His Enemies  
• Knowledge Maps  
• George Boole’s Laws of Thought  
• Teaching Ethics to Student Engineers  
• Choose Your Virtues
• Morality and Ethics  
• Bringing Philosophy to Athens: Aspasia of Miletos  
• Hypatia of Alexandria  

Computers and Computer Security

• Documentation is Specification
• When Old Technologies Were New  
• Fortune Cookie in Hex Code 
• John Kemeny Knew: We Shall Have Computed 
• BASIC: Turing’s Truth 
• A Successful Imitation of AlanTuring  
• Turing’s Cathedral  
• Claude M. Watson (1922-2013) 
• Hackers Heart Small Talk 
• Passwords  
• Brian Krebs’s Spam Nation  
• The Code Book  
• BSides Austin 2016  
• BSides Austin 2015  
• LASCON 2014  
• Bleeding Data

Military 

• Your State Defense Force  
• State Guard Song: Texans ServingTexans 
• Leadership
• Primary Leadership Training 
• Texas State Guard BasicNon-Commissioned Officer Training 
• Hurricane Tejas  
• Away from the Keyboard 
• Challenge Coins  
• The Fourth Star  
• We Were Soldiers Once – and Young
• Love My Rifle More Than You
• Plenty of Time When We Get Home
• Atheists in Foxholes  
• Armies Without Weapons  
• Peace is More Powerful

Criminology and Protective Services

• The Fallibility of Fingerprinting  
• Shifting the Paradigm of Private Security  
• Laissez Faire Criminology 
• Integrating Criminologies  
• Criminalistics: Science or Folkway?  
• A Forensics Bibliography  
• Police in a Global Culture  
• Alternatives to Prison (Part 3)  
• Active Defense and Passive Aggression (Part 2) 

Scientific Fraud and Research Misconduct

• Misconduct in Scientific Research  
• 20% of Scientists are Crooks  
• Four Books about Bad Science  
• Science Fairs and Science Frauds  
• Another Case of Fraud in University Research
• Retraction Watch

Science and Mathematics

• The Unit Circle  
• Happy Pi Day of the Century  
• Visualizing Complex Data  
• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers   
• The Map that Changed the World  
• Epigenetics  
• Is Physics a Science?  
• BioBash Replicates Success  
• Biohackers  
• U.S. Patent Law Does Not Add Up  
• Teaching Ethics to Engineering Students    

Nerds

• Where All the Children are Above Average  
• She’s Such a Geek!   
• World Peace Through Massive Retaliation   
• Nerd Nation 
• Nerd Nation 4.5   
• Big Bang Theory vs. Modern Philosophy
• Genius by James Gleick  
• Feynman’sRainbow  

Science Fiction 

• Firefly: Fact and Value Aboard Serenity  
• Fantastic Voyages: Teaching Science with ScienceFiction  
• Monsters from the Id  
• From Texas to the Moon with John Leonard Riddell  
• The Girl Who Owned a City  
• Star Trek: Not Too Far Beyond  
• The Ferengi Rules of Commerce  

Industrial Design, Consumerism, Austin Culture

• The Genius of Design  
• Start the Presses  
• Objectified  
• Raymond Loewy  
• Creature Comforts Show No End to History
• Art & Copy
• Sunday at the Co-Op  
• Awesome Austin Foods  
• Brain Juice for Austin and the World 
• Hot Dang Vegie Burger Mix
• Sweet Deal: Epic Honey
• Epic Meat Bars
• Great Bean Chocolate
• Kalliope 
• Images from SXSW 2013 
• Formulas for Success  

Numismatics and Economics

• Numismatics informs Economics  
• Numismatics: the Standard of Proof in Economics 

• Money is Speech
• Money as Press and Speech
• Money as Living History
• The Art of Finance 
• Sacred Silver from the Roof of the World  

• Forgery and Fraud in Numismatics  
• William Sheldon: Psychologist, Numismatist, Thief

• The Remarkable Story of Risk
• To Make Money 
• Gresham’s Conjecture 
• Money as a Crusoe Concept 
• Debt: the Seed of Civilization  
• The Success of the WEIRD People  

MISCELLANEOUS

• Thank You Notes
• Before Email
• Reflections on the Passing of a Comrade
• The First Dagny

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