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John Wilkins is always worth reading, but today he is particularly interesting. As I have noted before, the sciences have a kind of rolling wall of fog at a temporal distance behind them. They only cite those papers that are this side of that wall, or those papers that stand out like mountain peaks from… Continue reading

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Krauthammer on what happened in Syria: On Sept. 6, something important happened in northern Syria. Problem is, no one knows exactly what. Except for those few who were involved, and they’re not saying. We do know that Israel carried out an airstrike. How do we know it was important? Because in Israel, where leaking is… Continue reading