Ionian Enchantment

Utter awesomeness...

Every month or so I write mini-reviews of some the books I have read recently. Perhaps reading multiple rave reviews set my expectations t...

NYT op-ed columnist David Brooks has a great article out today that applies Mancur Olson 's insights to current problems in internation...

James "the Amazing" Randi takes on the asinine silliness that is homeopathy in the video embedded below (or click here ). Randi i...

The 92nd edition of the esteemed Skeptics' Circle is out at The Lay Scientist . Recommended submissions: Happy Jihad's House of Panc...

I have a paper out in the South African Journal of Philosophy about Andy Clark 's widely-read 1997 work, Being There: Putting Brain, Bo...

There is an utterly ridiculous op-ed in yesterday's NYT about the security threat UFOs supposedly pose. The author is one Nick Pope , u...

So I would much rather forget it, but many of you no doubt remember my embarrassing little foul up (and retraction ) recently. I didn't...