Physicist at Large

Much of this book is descriptive, and reasonably even-handed for such a hot button topic as multiculturalism.  There's a lot of discussi...

1) I'm currently reading We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer.  It's about multiculturalism in education from the pers...

Gillette, the razor company, has received considerable attention for an ad campaign that talks about how men have to be better in their cond...

I very much enjoyed The Blank Slate, but I haven't been in the blogging mood lately.  So I won't be doing chapter-by-chapter bloggin...

My next book will be The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker.  He talks about human nature, its biological contributors, and why people deny it.  ...

I agree with much of his cynicism about human nature, but I want insight, I want to understand the origins of bad ideas more deeply, and I w...

Chapter 1 is a rant about what philosophers get wrong.  I don't have a lot of time, but he seems to make 2 big points, plus an ancillary...