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The Dangers of Averages: Life Expectancy

Courtesy of Satoshi Kanazawa in Psychology Today, an illustration of the dangers of averages. The human lifespan is now pretty much what it has always been, around 70-80 years. I have heard it said many, many times that "in [insert era here] you were old when you were 40!

From the Vault

Recently, I bought the Chronological Donald Volume 4 from Disney. There are some of my favorite Donald Duck cartoons on that DVD, ones that I watched over and over growing up. However, there are also Donald Duck cartoons "from the Vault" on these DVDs. I'm guessing

Full Meridian of Glory

Full Meridian of Glory by Paul Murdin Copernicus Books 187 pages; $27.50 Paul Murdin's Full Meridian of Glory is a weighty tome. It is not particularly long, but it is very dense, both in the hand and in the mind. The book itself is beautiful heavy paper,

Rethinking the Iron Age

An interesting pre-print out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Ancient Blacksmiths, the Iron Age, Damascus Steels, and Modern Metallurgy. There is at least a possibility that the Neaderthals could have made wrought iron. The process is quite doable, you simply put iron oxide in an open hearth in a windy

No Time for Words from Those with Nothing to Say

Favorite Authors: Kipling

Among my favorite authors assuredly belongs Kipling, the engineer's poet. Kipling is often derided as an imperialist, but he was both popular and critically acclaimed in his day. His use of dialect is part of the reason he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but also for

What is a Moderate Muslim?

Timothy Furnish wrote an excellent article for the History News Network on Divide and Couquer in Islam. Furnish wrote a book on millennialism in Islam that I have used for one of my lectures on millennialism. He is one of the most knowledgeable and straightforward writers on Islam, and what