Friday, January 27, 2012

Teaching Ethics to Student Engineers

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Ayn Rand observed that for most people, “integrity” is not putting your hand in your neighbor’s pocket, when, in truth, integrity is having ...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Choose Your Virtues

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Virtue is contextual. It is easy to claim that honesty is the best policy.  That would contradict the fact that no dress ever made any woman...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

LIBERTARIANS AND RACISM

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Ayn Rand's essay on “Racism” in The Virtue of Selfishness was unequivocal: racism is the crudest form of collectivism.  Anyone who ...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Most Popular Necessary Facts

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According to the Stats provided by Google, these were the most popular pages in 2011. Firefly: Fact and Value Aboard "Serenity"- J...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

What (if Anything) Did Dorothy Learn?

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One of our favorite morality plays ends with a vacuous non-sequitur. At the end of the 1939 movie version of The Wizard of Oz , Glinda the...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The Origin of ... (What?)

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Fertile hybrids demonstrate the limitations of strict Darwinian taxonomy.  According to the easy definitions, a species is a genetically dis...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Debt: the seed of civilization

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In these days of anti-capitalist protest, it is important to know that keeping track of debts led to the inventions of counting and writing,...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Merry Newtonmas!

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The Birth of Modernity "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, let Newton be! and all was light." ...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Another Case of Fraud in University Research

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“ ...   he was immediately fired by the university, admitted to his lengthy fraud, and handed back his PhD degree.” On the Strategy Pro...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Economic Value in a Liberal Education

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On the blog, OrgTheory, Prof. Fabio Rojas has been arguing against indiscriminate college education. His thesis is that college is largely n...