I fear we are witnessing the “death of expertise”: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those of any achievement in an area and those with none at all. Tom Nichols, “The Death of Expertise,” The Federalist Read more
Lots of people have been posting about the fact that Facebook only shows a small fraction of people who “like” something on Facebook the updates on that particular page. And so it reminded me of this image, which was made in response to a previous time that Facebook changed things, but which seems just as apt now. If you like Exploring Our Matrix on Facebook, I hope that you will click on the notifications tab at the top and choose... Read more
Bart Ehrman gave the lecture above at a very strange place. In the YouTube sidebar, it recommended another lecture Ehrman gave at the Getty Museum: Â Â Read more
 The quotation above comes from the document that has been circulating a lot in recent days, offering advice for the situation of the newly-integrated buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Here is the entire document below. Here's another image with the same quotation, in case you like it better:   Read more
Here are two videos of Metropolitan Youth Orchestra A performing at yesterday’s Invest in MYO concert at the Hilbert Circle Theater. Read more
The above is based on a Facebook comment I wrote in response to a question that pitted the Biblical creation account against “Darwinism”: It is indeed a false dichotomy. Moreover, if you are talking about the details then you have to believe the order in Genesis 1 and the different order in Genesis 2, and you must accept the dome and other such details and not merely pick and choose. But even doing that would not be “believing the Bible”... Read more
Via IO9, I learned about the song in the video above, which comes from this XKCD cartoon:Â Read more
Today was the second time I’ve seen it with my own eyes. The first time was years ago in Edinburgh. Today it was in Indianapolis. I was passing a spot (in this case, the ramp of the 29th and 30th Street exist from I-65) where one almost always sees someone begging. I saw as one person who had been begging got into a car, and fist bumped the driver. And I witnessed as another person came and took his place,... Read more
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