Do the Minimum!
None of these are particularly safe work work, so beware. How’s this for a song video: If it’s not clear, that’s the band, Death Grips, listening to their song in a small room. That’s it, that’s the...
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Intellectual Loses Forest, Probably For Trees
I have been contemplating a post about Wittgenstein, now that his name has been freed from exile, and in reading (and thinking) about him over the last couple weeks, I have frequently encountered and...
View ArticleOn the Way to Fraud [UPDATED]
If you will bear with me for a moment, I would like to begin with a story. When I was a grad student, lo these many years ago, I was mildly (read: pathologically) obsessed with a particular theory of...
View ArticlePathological [Updated]
While the dust in the case of the fabricated data published in Science last December remains very much unsettled, the deadline by which the primary author, Michael LaCour, claimed he would respond to...
View ArticleJokes!
R., my girlfriend, partner, and better half in virtually every way — I am undeniably better at first person shooters, but that may be it — has a single weakness (well, two if you count Australian...
View ArticleDirty Sexy Science
Whew! We are not yet three weeks in and the LaCour case has all but run its course. As new information, at times shocking, at others infuriating, at still others utterly fascinating, has surfaced...
View ArticleThe Other Shoe…
For Michael LaCour, it has dropped. Michael LaCour… has had his job offer as an incoming assistant professor at Princeton University rescinded. “We have completed our review and rescinded our offer of...
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Identity and its Monuments
If you have not spent much time in the states that comprise the former Confederacy1, particularly the states which saw a great deal of fighting – Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and...
View ArticleIn Case You Thought I Was Kidding
I sometimes worry that people with little experience of the South will think I am exaggerating about the White South’s obsession with that damn war and the Confederacy, but White Southerners always...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Is Not Selling Organs
This is now quite clear: Buyer [ACTOR]: Ok. I’m just trying to brainstorm. Because, I think offering some people, not only, just offsetting their cost in other areas, seeing the potential for that,...
View ArticleWhat Myths Hide
I’ve talked before about Chris Schoen’s music, specifically his musical interpretations of Les fleur du mal, but he’s also a very insightful, if extremely infrequent blogger. He demonstrates this again...
View ArticleOpen to the Conversation
With recent conversations about who is and who isn’t a feminist, and why, on my mind, this passage from an interview with Netta Elzie caught my eye. If you haven’t heard of her (because you’re not on...
View ArticleRiff Raff!
Inspired by Glyph’s country post last week, I’ve been listening to a lot of Hurray for the Riff Raff. Granted, they straddle a line between folk and country, but the song above, “The Body Electric,”...
View ArticleVaccine Lessons from Mom
Virginia Hughes, who was with Seed back when I was with ScienceBlogs and ScienceBlogs was with Seed, writes about the conversation she had with her mother about why she was not vaccinated as a child....
View ArticleFaithfull!
In 1964, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the Stones’ manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, gave a song they’d written to a folk singer from the coffee shops of London, and the 50+ year career of Marianne...
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To Make Them More Lost
So many psychological disorders have unfortunate names. Sometimes those names are the vestiges of long-discarded theories of the disorders’ origins or mechanisms, or even of antiquated ontologies;...
View ArticleSamples!
Warning: Pretty much none of this is safe for work. Almost all of the songs below contain the “N” word, as well as a whole host of words that you’d have gotten detention for if you’d used them in...
View ArticleThe Wager
Since it has come up periodically hereabouts, I thought I’d post the whole wager passage from Pascal’s Pensées (all of which you can read here). I will just add a couple comments. First, as the full...
View ArticleHigh School Athletes Strike Referees
With all of the talk of charging the two high school football players who intentionally struck an official here in Central Texas last Friday, I thought it might be interesting to see what had happened...
View ArticleSeparation (Due To) Anxiety?
At some point in the mid-Aughts, maybe ’06 or so, there circulated among the blogs I read a graphic representation of the interconnectedness of the various topical galaxies in the blogging universe (it...
View ArticleYou Can’t Carry That On Campus!
Just the other day I was wondering ’round these parts why we don’t mix sex and other stuff more often. While I was thinking mostly about markets, this will do just fine, just fine indeed: Sex toys to...
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Stressed? Take a hike!
Before gas prices became prohibitively expensive, I, like many people, would respond to high levels of stress by hopping in my car and going for a drive. It was a simple but effective method for...
View ArticleI hate to say it, but…
…the new Star Wars movie kinda sucks. I know that in saying this I am pushing against an overwhelming tide of positive reviews (95% on Rotten Tomatoes!), and will likely convince no one who already...
View ArticleSongza, I’m Gonna Miss You
Note to whichever editor(s) are reading this: please don’t post this until at least Friday, as I don’t want to step on the Wednesday music post’s toes, even though this isn’t meant to be a music post....
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The Best Album of 2015, Obliquely
Warning: NSFW, lots of the n-word in particular. Also impossibly catchy, so it will be NSFW in your head for days. Once again, 2015 had a bunch of wonderful music, and I’d love to do a Best Of list,...
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