Sunflowers. In September.
The stickiness of so-called “reverse racism”
When an idea is “intuitive” but also steeped in a culture war we have a heightened…
Journalism is a variety of public relations
Journalists complain about the rise and impact of public relations. It’s the “dark side”. Public relations…
Land back
I’m awed by Ayla Brown’s handmade design. Oh wow, turns out there is more art where…
Happy Halloween
Halloween in Vicwest is quiet but nice. Some great costumes on the street last night and…
White supremacy, doing journalism, and the explanatory comma
This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory…
Cognition trick: the Google Effect
We’ve developed a habit of forgetting, or declining to remember, the information that is readily available…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
The look, and the social nature of knowledge
When I was growing up I was bad with context. Super bad. My young logic-oriented self…