A story in this morning’s Austin American-Statesman bears the headline “Parents feel ‘alienated’, seek ouster of school’s principal.” According to the story,
The parents said [Austin High School Principal John] Hudson does not support parents, students or teachers, and said he does not revere some of the 126-year-old school’s traditions. They fault him for cutting […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Let him be praised with great praise
Sauce for the Ornithologist
In this NY Times article, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg quotes approvingly Richard Feynman’s dictum that “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” Seems to me that the corollary would be, “Scientists understand about as much about what they’re really doing as a tree does about photosynthesis.”
Cultural Progress
Although I was just a little kid in the late ’60s (my adolescence coinciding with the 1970s), I have memories of those heady times. Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Revolution in the air.
Most of that program didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to. (How could it have?) The utopian […]
The Critical Faculty
In a previous post, I listed some of the books I’ve read over the past few months, and offered to publicize my appraisals of those works for anyone who might be interested. So far, I’ve had no takers (not surprising, in light of the number of readers that that offer is, realistically, likely to […]
almost geek-ous
Currently blogging from B.B. Rover’s, a fine Austin establishment that I can commend without reservation to my readers. More about that in a bit, should it become relevant.
In my last post, I promised to install a what-I’m-reading-now gizmo in my sidebar, and to do so pronto. And that was 3 or 4 days […]
Ring out the false, ring in the true
January 1, 2008. Akemashite omedetoh gozaimasu. Out with the old, in with the new. Time to take stock and to plan ahead. Blah, blah, blah.
During 2007 I put up a total of 30 posts on Milinda’s Questions. On average, about once every 12 days. Not a […]
