The Whackiest Chart

1. Kafka, Metamorphosis . 2. Eric Pepin, Meditation within Eternity . 3. Elisa Medhus, My Son and the Afterlife . 4. Bachelard, Poetics of S...

Rules of the Road

UK: There are rules, which is why I had to run you over with my car. I was going at the speed limit. California: There are rules. But I don...

Zero Sum Gaming

I hope Krugman continues to ignore the absurdities issuing from a Harvard historian who fancies himself adept at economics. And continues in...

Will This Turn Texas on to a More Rational Healthcare Policy?

… one in a hundred in my area get yellow fever by 2085 , because of global warming.

Consumerism Blogging

Go on, you know you want to . More heartbreakingly beautiful prose from my undergraduate students. Read the one on STEM courses. And the oth...

Will It Break Capitalism?

I'm not sure. But WWII for sure broke a certain phase of imperialism. One wonders whether the gradual realization that we are in the Ant...

Alternate Currents Blog

Joseph Campana (Rice) has started  an awesome blog on energy and ecology and the humanities .