Worthwhile Reading & Viewing

Some great spiderweb pictures

Glacier National Park pictures from D L Sly, who writes at Villainous Company

High school principal bans Chik-fil-A at Booster Club events.  She justifies her decision on grounds of “inclusivity and diversity.”  Well, I guess that could be one translation of the German term Gleichschaltung.

SWAT team raid on barbershop rebuked by appeals court

Wishful science:  “if there’s little incentive to publish negative results, whatever reigning paradigm is operating in a given field will be very resistant to change”

Years ago, Arthur Koestler asserted that human beings are basically crazy and that maybe it would be possible to develop a sanity-improving drug and put it in everyone’s drinking water.  I was reminded of Koestler’s suggestion by this:  Should we all take a bit of lithium?

Avoiding managerial groupthink with the right kind of diversity

People succeed where systems fail

Arguing with Leftists:  How narratives trump everything

Making subway cars in Yonkers:  a photo essay

Florence, Italy – Il Duomo

In April I travelled to Italy. We landed and took off from Florence. I was astonished by the beauty and cleanliness of Florence, at least in the places we visited near downtown and in the hills above the city.

While in Florence the size and scale of Il Duomo is staggering. I recommend reading in detail about the construction of this amazing cathedral since it took centuries and was extremely complicated and advanced for its time.

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