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Richard Cocks over at the Orthospehere summarises some recent research from the Infant Cognition Center at Yale, run by Dr. Karen Wynn and ...

These addresses became "Mere Christianity."

Paul Huang, interviewed over at Steve Hsu's Manifold (sidebar, but transcript here ) believes that the Taiwanese at all levels - the pol...

Mary Harrington at UnHerd had an essay two years ago The Sexual Revolution Killed Feminism . I was familiar with most of the arguments, but ...

Republished from 2011, inspired by the comments about appropriateness for children under the "Train Songs" post. I recall when Jon...

Update: bsking points out that Scott Alexander has just discussed the general issue of the Social Model of Disability about two weeks ago,...

David Bentley Hart was a name unfamiliar to me, and reading about him and listening to him being interviewed by Tyler Cowen I have the impr...

David Foster put up links to Coal Mining songs and Rodeo songs over at Chicago Boyz , so I thought I would have a go at something more centr...

I am a slow eater, always the last to leave the table. I would stay for the evening eating, talking, and drinking if I could find others wil...

It got so difficult looking for a particular quote of mine from 10 years ago that I counted up all the posts that include the word nostalgia...

Ann Althouse links to a George Will piece on Gov. Burgum , who is running for the Republican nomination for president.  I'm not sure I r...

Recommended to me by a friend at pub night. They do a lot of original music to JRR Tolkien poetry as well, as in " Lament For Boromir. ...

Scott Alexander at ACX, talking about acceptance into Harvard and why they don't just let themselves be bribed for all admissions. Peopl...

Anthropology.net passes along a study by the Max Planck Institute on the origins of Proto-Indo-European . This controversy has been a big de...

What does it mean to have a good memory? It can mean that we have a capacious recollection of events, spontaneously recalling incidents and ...

The Seven Sins of Memory   I cannot fully recommend the book to the regular reader.  I learned a good deal from Schacter's book - some o...

  Odds and Ends Trauma makes memory more unreliable. This can get painful, because people feel like you aren't believing them, or are...

My grandmother had this 78rpm record, one of the few left that could be played on her wind-up phonograph.

 Bernadette Peters might be the prettiest girl ever in the movies.

A self-indulgent post about dealing with old friends who were not as remembered. And yet at another level they very much were, insisting tha...