Thursday, August 29, 2013

Claude M. Watson (1922-2013)

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Claude Meacham Watson (July 30, 1922 to August 26, 2013) is the reason that my present wife and I met, and, ultimately, had a baby, and car...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Reflections on the Sokal Affair

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If politics makes strange bedfellows, then philosophy is an inconvenient marriage.  “Tying capitalism to faith means that capitalism can...
Monday, August 26, 2013

The Sokal Affair

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The Sokal Affair was an important event in 20 th century intellectual history. Nominally about the social basis of knowledge, the truths i...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

A Visitor from the CIA

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Finally catching up on some LinkedIn notices, I saw this.   I cleaned up the capture to remove a couple of commercial contacts. I noted...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Contradictions in the Constitution

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“He sat at a table, and the light of his lamp fell on the copy of an ancient document. He had marked and crossed out the contradictions in ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Scripophily

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Scripophily is the study of stock certificates, bonds, and related fiduciary instruments. You can pronounce it "scrip-o-filly" or ...
Friday, August 9, 2013

"Anthem" as a Graphic Novel

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The graphic novel adaptation of Ayn Rand's Anthem is a passable work that faithfully provides visual content to the story. Artists Char...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Visualizing Complex Data

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Edward R. Tufte's classic works - Envisioning Information , Visual Explanation , and The Visual Display of Quantitative Inform...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Numismatics: History as Market

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Most people call it “coin collecting” but numismatics is the art and science that studies the forms and uses of money. This includes stock ...