Medical Malpractice and The Bloody Sign
On the 31st of January 1424, in London, a man named William Forest injured his right hand.
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Contra Suspended Reason on Magic
Since the release of his “Fool’s Gold” essays (Pt 1 & 2), Suspended Reason and I have been trying to pin down a divergence between our worldviews/philosophies/orientations/methods.
Comedy and the Evitability Principle
In a series of footnotes in a recent post, Suspended Reason riffs on his own in-the-body-text observation that Thomas Pynchon’s detectives always hunt for an “Authoritative Representation” and only ever unearth “one more partial vision”.
Contra Wagner On State-of-Being Verbs
Here is Roy Wagner reviewing Michael Jackson’s 2016 book As Wide As The World Is Wise (emphasis mine):
A Short List of All the Things that John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats Is
“heading your way all the time” “going to move all [his] vital organs to someplace outside [his] body” “in a thousand rooms all at the same time” “climbing up this mountain” “sure that there’s a reason all of this is happening” “going to Alaska” “so lonesome [he] could cry” “not going to apologize” “on to you now” “the buyer” “the tire” “[the glass; you’re the water that fills…
Is Mathematics Unreasonably Effective?
In yet another confirmation of Betteridge’s,
Gender Differences in Hammer Prices for Australian Indigenous Art
Based on data from the Australian Art Sales Digest (AASD) from the period 1995–2014, Farrell et al show that that:
Questions for September 2023
Inspired by similar pages from Alex Guzey, Gwern, Patrick Collison, & Suspended Reason, here’s a list of some random open questions (as of September 2023).