He’s had an incredible career with incredible musical range, and I hope that there will be a second CD:   https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2017/06/06/legendary-producer-david-foster-talks-streaming-and-working-with-the-mormon-tabernacle-choir/#3ab4fc7d1078   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more

    So far as I’m aware, it’s not receiving a great deal of news coverage.  Nonetheless, it’s significant:   “Music Case an Important Key for Religious Liberty”   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more

    This is, of course, scientifically interesting in its own right:   https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/07/oldest-homo-sapiens-bones-ever-found-shake-foundations-of-the-human-story   But there’s another lesson in it, if the advocates of this find are correct:   It isn’t just slightly older than previous relevant finds.  It’s a lot older.  It’s from 300,000 years before the present.  The previous oldest analog, which set the standard story, dates to slightly less than 200,000 years before the present.  And it doesn’t just slightly adjust the prevailing account.  If accurately... Read more

    As the old saying goes, “You can’t fool Mother Nature.”  Likewise, despite the fantasies of many politicians and demagogues, you can’t really fool the laws of economics.   Which illustrates the fact that — to use a slogan made popular, I think, by the late great Milton Friedman — “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”   You may think that all of the zoning and environmental regulations heaped upon homebuilders over the past few decades are a... Read more

    “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more

    I got a kick out of this.  Perhaps you will, too:     Some say that it doesn’t really demonstrate that monkeys have a sense of fairness or justice.  I’m inclined to think that it does.  In any event, it’s both interesting and funny.   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more

    This is an interesting list:   http://www.breannaolaveson.com/best-general-conference-talks-of-all-time-an-unofficial-study/   How would yours differ?  (I’m assuming, if only as a matter of probability, that your personal list won’t be identical.)   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more

    The latest installment of the biweekly Hamblin-Peterson column for the Deseret News has appeared, to the consternation of decent and rational people everywhere (to the very limited extent that they pay attention):   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865681678/How-reading-the-Bible-changed-in-the-early-16th-century-during-the-Reformation.html   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more

    What this article argues is absolutely essential to understand.  Especially for those who are terrified at the sheer thought of shari‘a.   How anti-Shariah marches mistake Muslim concepts of state and religious law (COMMENTARY)   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more

    It’s just yet another of life’s injustices.  But why?   Nobody quite knows, but here are some informed suggestions:   http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/why-men-dont-live-as-long-as-women   Posted from Boston, Massachusetts     Read more