Author Archives: oligomath

Heart Awareness

considering your heart is maybe the most throbbing part of your anatomy i find it remarkable how well the normal physiology of man is set up to allow you to forget it exists until something is wrong, such that if … Continue reading

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Harry Potter is Making Children English

it makes sense that people would look at the harry potter books, go “is this an artful selection of fantasies describing one increasingly deranged woman’s libido or is it a portal for true facts about house elves i can memorise” … Continue reading

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Biologist Writing

biologists have the worst attitude to acronyms in this paper we describe a novel phenomena in primates wherein a male primate inserts his penis (P) into the mouth (O) of a willing conspecific (Wc) typically but not necessarily female. We … Continue reading

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The Reason the Law Exists

when it comes to the halacha, if i wish to reduce the Law to a single purpose (silly idea to do, but i can have a little monocausophilia as a treat) i find the racism hypothesis more convincing than the … Continue reading

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Linguistic Science and Linguistic Engineering

there is some complicated knot to be described about how, despite linguistic *science* being woefully unknown and unconscious, linguistic *engineering* albeit at a proto-scientific level, is something people are acutely aware of but which, lacking as they do a linguistic-scientific … Continue reading

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Advice

you can only get yourself so worked up by reading posts. you need to take more drugs. you need to develop paranoid delusions about your friends. you need to egg your gang up to some punk war with another gang … Continue reading

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someone deaccessioned a book in a village library in america somewhere

>History WILL judge the school boards who are trying to ban Maus, though. Yes teens can get it outside of school but the decision that kids shouldn’t access Maus in school isn’t a neutral decision. The decision is motivated by … Continue reading

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Where Are the Masons?

the funny thing about the Masons is that they are not very Freemasonic. they aren’t organised into lodges — the word I think is only mentioned in a historical passage where the origin of the Masons is described. the concept … Continue reading

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Crossanity: On Believing in the Saints But Not Jesus

the reason the saints were thrown out by the reformers is because both the gospel-as-written and north European political aspirations are about unmediated power relations, made fair by virtue of this unmediated quality — by the gospel everyone is to … Continue reading

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The Gap Between Archimedes and Kepler in the Scientific Mythology

i think the part between Archimedes and Kepler is deleted, even today in a very multiracial and global because the myth of the history of science is really very shoddy and doesn’t withstand much investigation, like most kinds of scientific … Continue reading

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