Sunday, July 29, 2012

Browne on Kuhn

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Gregory M. Browne is the author of Necessary Factual Truth (University Press of America, 2001), the inspiration for the title of this blog...
Friday, July 27, 2012

The Pretense of Sociology

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The Pretense of Knowledge: Of What Use is Sociology? On the OrgTheory   blog Jennifer Lena ( bio here ) replied with some numbers to F...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Austin Tech Republicans

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Usually on the third Friday of most months, the Austin Tech Republicans meet at the Brick Oven in Gateway Plaza across from Arboretum on ...
Friday, July 13, 2012

How much is that in our money?

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"Medium One Topping 899” Of course, they dropped the decimal point and of course everyone knows that: $8.99 is a reasonable price for a...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Great Scientific Experiments

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Thomas Kuhn’s work focused on paradigm shifts.  ( Reviewed on Necessary Facts, here. ) To Kuhn, paradigms define the puzzles that “normal s...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Around Austin

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Texas has no income tax. Sales tax is 8.5% here in Austin because 1% goes for CapMetro, the bus and rail lines.  Dell, Motorola, and a dozen...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Independence Day 2012: The American Political Tradition and Profiles in Courage

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The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter. (Preface for the Hebrew edition, September 29, 1967.)   “… no society can fu...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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“Everyone” knows this book, even those who have not read it.  “Paradigm shift” is an idea within our common culture. This month, I made the...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Nerd Nation 4.5

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We actually had cable-tv in the 80s and 90s; but from about 1996 on, it was just an offering on the glass wire that brought the Internet.  ...

Art as Ordered Narrative

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Book Review: When Writing Met Art by Denise Schmandt-Besserat ( Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007. $45.00.) We accept it as g...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins

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Book Review:  Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins  by Marshall Faintich; McFarland & Co., 2008, 232 pages, $55.00 Working...