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There’s a reason I don’t read newspaper commentary very often, and it isn’t because newsprint smudges my fingers. No, most analytical articles oversimplify and make half-blind conclusions. Sports writing is the most guilty of this - think of all the articles that present a statistic (e.g. UNC is 25-1 in NCAA games [...]

From this article, this statement:

David J. Gross, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif., and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, told me in an e-mail message, “I have more confidence in the methods of science, based on the amazing record of science and its ability over the centuries [...]

Show me your schedule and I’ll show you your values.
Let’s not go through my daily hours, lest we all be bored to tears and thoroughly amazed at how often I get sidetracked, but let’s rather look at one particular item that literally runs away with several of my hours every week: track. And I [...]

“I am an invisible man,” declares the unnamed narrator of Ralph Ellison’s only finished novel, Invisible Man. He elaborates in the Prologue, retelling times when he went unseen. While he quashes all sci-fi notions, I still read it too literally my first go-through. I interpreted “invisible” as “ignored”, believing the point was [...]