WORLDbytes – After Fukushima: The Fear Factor | Atomic Insights
Why is anyone who suggests that the radiation news may not be all bad, immediately labeled an apologist for the nuke industry? Hint: it has something to do with Marxism. See below the video for my answer. In the video, Ms. Fox tells how many of the journalists that she regularly serves from the Science [...]
How academics waste time, and how the Internet can help
A student just came to my office and asked about the history of the word “gentleman” – did I have a good definition? I assumed that he had looked up the word in a number of dictionaries (I checked, he said he had). I recalled reading something about the history of the word recently. It [...]
Hope is a Theological virtue?
In the chapter on Hope, in Book Three of Mere Christianity, Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote, “Hope is one of the Theological virtues.” And that put me off right there. Don’t get me wrong. I admire C.S. Lewis in many ways, especially his erudition and the conversational style in which he writes (he writes as [...]
Intellectuals? Bah, humbug!
In his book Intellectuals, Paul Johnson takes a close look at some key figures of modern times whose thoughts and writings have had a huge effect on people’s thinking for a long time, right down to today. Johnson examines the personal lives of these famous men (Lillian Hellman is the only female intellectual in this book), and [...]
C.S. Lewis and the Great Divide
C.S. Lewis via last.fm Recently, I’ve been reading as much of and about the British author C.S. Lewisas I can, as you can see from my Amazon reading list in the right-hand sidebar. My original reason was to inform myself as I will teach two of his Narnian stories next academic year. I found Selected [...]
