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Underdog Psychology

17. October 2008

David Brooks as psychologist? He wrote a great opinion piece for the New York Times today1 on the psychology of Barack Obama. Brooks is certainly conservative but he is always level-headed and critical - that’s why I like his editorials. I suppose in his logical, dispassionate analytics he finds Obama a kindred spirit. Of course, [...]

Analysis of “Bad to the Bone”

23. July 2008

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Here I will attempt an analysis of the philosophical work of George Thorogood, Bad to the Bone. First, just to point out the obvious, it’s clear that Thorogood is heavily influenced by the German Idealists. In particular, one can see a Hegelian theme throughout the work. The references to “bad to the bone” are Thorogood’s [...]

Black Tide of Occultism

15. June 2008

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I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had last summer. Some friends and I were discussing Richard Dawkin’s book, The God Delusion, with Rupert. As always, Rupert’s ideas are well thought out and always seem to come out of left field - at least to me. This got me thinking… There are people everywhere that [...]

Does Time Move Backwards?

13. February 2005

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It is possible - in theory - that time may not just move forwards but backwards, too. And if time ebbs and flows like the tides in the sea, it might just be possible to foretell major world events. We would, in effect, be ‘remembering’ things that had taken place in our future. “There’s plenty [...]

Time Can be Turned Back?

29. July 2004

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Time has been one of the most complicated and least studied scientific issues since ancient times. Eight years ago, American and British scientists who conducted investigations in Antarctica made a sensational discovery. US physicist Mariann McLein told the researchers noticed some spinning gray fog in the sky over the pole on January 27 which they believed [...]

Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction

2. May 2004

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For over 10 years I’ve been bumping up against Arthur Schopenhauer just about everywhere. His influence on continental philosophy is everywhere. Though I somehow managed to get through Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Jung, for some reason I had just never picked up Schopenhauer. At Barnes & Noble tonight I decided to wade in [...]

Snapshot Taken of the Tiniest Time Interval

29. April 2004

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Physicists in Austria say they that have observed events separated by the shortest time interval ever, and plan to use the technique to study atomic phenomena. A group led by Ferenc Krausz of Vienna University of Technology used pulses of laser light to watch electrons moving around atoms, and were able to distinguish events that [...]

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