As anyone who has ever tackled problems like crossword puzzles, for example, will know, once you start to understand how the puzzles are set, and develop strategies for solving the clues, the easier it becomes to work through the clues. And even a difficult seven across will be tackled w...
Thomas Kuhn (2012), a historian of science, argued that science, as an activity conducted by humans, is a social activity. As such, it is—according to Kuhn—subject to the same psychological influences of all human activities. Specifically, Kuhn suggested that there is no such thing asobjec...
It is no secret that I do not like Donald Trump, but I do prefer the idea of four years of his policies over four years of Kamala Harris policies. That does not at all, however, change the fact that I do not like Donald Trump, that I think his rhetoric is inflammatory and dangerous...
seems much like a banal truth. The dream interpretations of the Egyptians and Chaldeans, and the story of Joseph who interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams, are known to every one, and the dream book of Artemidorus is also familiar. From countless inscribed monuments of all times and peoples we lear...
Also, I was struck by erroneous statements like this one referencing “satellite data showing the globe warming, since 1998, more than twice as fast as scientists had thought.” That’s just not true. The evidence that climate change is a serious problem that we must contend with now, is ...
Here then lies a major difference between Skidelsky and others and myself. I would like to put forward the following argument to support my point of view.Using the inter-war period again, my position is as follows. Skidelsky among others would argue that a large body of agreed factual ...
There has never again been so great an artist in philosophy, so supreme a dramatist, as Plato. But in later times philosophers themselves have often been willing to admit that even if they were not, like Plato, dramatists, there was poetry and art in their vocation. “One does not see ...
With this sense of possibility in mind, I would like to offer five Life Design-inspired tips for approaching the Fall semester. August 25, 2021 1 History/Futures: A Conversation with Karen Thomas The following is the transcript of an interview conducted with Dr. Karen Thomas, Staff Historian ...
They hooked each gambler up to a machine that measured the activity of the sweat glands below the skin in the palms of their hands. Like most of our sweat glands, those in our palms respond to stress as well as temperature— which is why we get clammy hands when we are nervous. What...
If you are dogmatically following a process, even a specific agile process, instead of adapting your activity to successfully achieve the goal; you are NOT agile! Continue reading → Posted in Agile and Strategic Planning, Agile Arguments, Agile for Beginners, Agile for Software Development, ...