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2026 22

  1. Explaining Toms Sump: A Two-Reservoir Model
  2. The Ludovisi Sarcophagus
  3. RIP Juro Martanovic
  4. Amazon Goes to Brazil
  5. Remembering Deep-Pocket 9/11 Marxists
  6. Body Belay
  7. Seven Holes in the Head
  8. Bungee Disaster Reality Apathy
  9. The Lancellotti Discobolus
  10. Whirled War II and Lexical Parsing Errors
  11. History of Science in ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
  12. O Thick Wits, O Blind Watchers of the Sky
  13. Republicans Against Democracy
  14. An Apostolic Blind Spot
  15. The Ugly Nero
  16. Demonstration Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Policy Frameworks and Educational Pathways in Collective Action
  17. I’m Not Saying Neil deGrasse Tyson Is an Idiot
  18. Avuncular Aloofness as Superstructure: New York Times’ Khamenei Framing through a Marxist Lens
  19. What ‘Project Hail Mary’ Gets Right about Science
  20. Anger As Argument – the Facebook Dividend
  21. Crystals Know What Day It Is
  22. Don’t Skimp on Shoes

2025 54

  1. Dugga Dugga Dugga
  2. Robert Reich, Genius
  3. Bridging the Gap: Investor – Startup Psychology and What VCs Really Want to Hear
  4. Lawlessness Is a Choice, Bugliosi Style
  5. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
  6. Carving the Eagle
  7. It’s the Losers Who Write History
  8. Removable Climbing Bolt Stress Under Offset Loading
  9. Things to See in Palazzo Massimo
  10. Climbing Taiwan Removable Bolts Review
  11. The Arch of Constantine
  12. Deficient Discipleship in Environmental Science
  13. The End of Science Again
  14. Mark as Midrash
  15. Physics for Cold Cavers: NASA vs Hefty and Husky
  16. I’m Only Neurotic When – Engineering Edition
  17. I’m Only Neurotic When You Do It Wrong
  18. The Comet, the Clipboard, and the Knife
  19. Cave Bolts – 3/8″ or 8mm? – Or Wrong Question?
  20. Roxy Music and Forgotten Social Borders
  21. “He Tied His Lace” – Rum, Grenades and Bayesian Reasoning in Peaky Blinders
  22. Gospel of Mark: A Masterpiece Misunderstood, Part 7 – Mark Before Modernism
  23. Gospel of Mark, Masterpiece Misunderstood, Part 6 – Mark, Paul and James: The Silence, the Self and the Law
  24. The Gospel of Mark: A Masterpiece Misunderstood, Part 5 – Mark’s Interpreter Speaks
  25. The Gospel of Mark: A Masterpiece Misunderstood, Part 4 – Silence and Power
  26. The Gospel of Mark: A Masterpiece Misunderstood, Part 3 – Rhetorical Strategies
  27. The Gospel of Mark: A Masterpiece Misunderstood, Part 2 – Reader-Response Criticism
  28. The Gospel of Mark: A Masterpiece Misunderstood
  29. All But the Clergy Believe
  30. Six Days to Failure? A Case Study in Cave Bolt Fatigue
  31. From Aqueducts to Algorithms: The Cost of Consensus
  32. Rational Atrocity?
  33. Bayes Theorem, Pearl Harbor, and the Niihau Incident
  34. If the Good Lord’s Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise
  35. Grains of Truth: Science and Dietary Salt
  36. Content Strategy Beyond the Core Use Case
  37. Unlocking the Secrets of Bulk Metallic Glass with Graph Computing
  38. Reflection Lag
  39. Grocery Bag Facebook Covers
  40. Concrete Screws in Cave Exploration
  41. Render Unto Caesar His Complexion
  42. After the Applause: Heilbron Rereads Feyerabend
  43. Anarchy and Its Discontents: Paul Feyerabend’s Critics
  44. John Heilbron Interview – June 2012
  45. Dialogue Concerning a Cup of Cooked Collards
  46. New Marble Portrait of Augustus
  47. Bad Science, Broken Trust: Commentary on Pandemic Failure
  48. Covid Response – Case Counts and Failures of Statistical Reasoning
  49. Covid Response – Signs of Statistical Success
  50. NPR: Free Speech and Free Money
  51. Statistical Reasoning in Healthcare: Lessons from Covid-19
  52. Extraordinary Popular Miscarriages of Science, Part 6 – String Theory
  53. Extraordinary Popular Miscarriages of Science, Part 5 – Climate Science
  54. Fuck Trump: The Road to Retarded Representation

2024 4

  1. Extraordinary Popular Miscarriages of Science, part 4 – Marxism
  2. Popular Miscarriages of Science, part 3 – The Great Lobotomy Rush
  3. Extraordinary Miscarriages of Science, Part 2 – Creation Science
  4. Extraordinary Popular Miscarriages of Science (part 1)

2022 1

  1. Settled State Science

2021 2

  1. Fashionable Pessimism: Confidence Gap Revisited
  2. Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds

2020 12

  1. Risk Neutrality and Corporate Risk Frameworks
  2. The Dose Makes the Poison
  3. The Prosecutor’s Fallacy Illustrated
  4. Innumeracy and Overconfidence in Medical Training
  5. 55 Saves Lives
  6. The Covid Megatilt
  7. Intertemporal Choice, Delayed Gratification and Empty Marshmallow Promises
  8. The Naming and Numbering of Parts
  9. The Trouble with Doomsday
  10. The Trouble with Probability
  11. Actively Disengaged?
  12. A short introduction to small data

2019 14

  1. Countable Infinity – Math or Metaphysics?
  2. Paul Feyerabend, The Worst Enemy of Science
  3. Use and Abuse of Failure Mode & Effects Analysis in Business
  4. Alternative Energy News Oct 2019
  5. What is a climate denier?
  6. Yes, Greta, let’s listen to the scientists
  7. Daniel Kahneman’s Bias Bias
  8. Mazateconomics
  9. Let’s just fix the trolley
  10. Physics for Environmentalists
  11. Physics for Venture Capitalists
  12. A Bayesian folly of J Richard Gott
  13. Physics for Frisco motorheads
  14. Representative Omar’s arithmetic

2018 3

  1. Which Is To Be Master? – Humpty Dumpty’s Research Agenda
  2. Frederick Taylor Must Die
  3. Positive Risk – A Positive Disaster

2017 1

  1. McKinsey’s Behavioral Science

2016 22

  1. Was Thomas Kuhn Right about Anything?
  2. The Myth of Scientific Method
  3. Siri without data is blind
  4. Data without theory is lame
  5. Feynman as Philosopher
  6. Love Me I’m an Agile Scrum Master
  7. Nobel Laureates Stoop to the Level of Greenpeace
  8. Science vs Philosophy Again
  9. The P Word
  10. Andrei’s Anthropic Abduction
  11. Of Mice, Maids and Explanatory Theories
  12. My Grandfather’s Science
  13. The Road to Holacracy
  14. Multidisciplinary
  15. Leaders and Managers in Startups
  16. Stop Orbit Change Denial Now
  17. Can Science Survive?
  18. My Trouble with Bayes
  19. Science, God, and the White House
  20. Fine Tuned Fibs for the Cause
  21. But You Need the Data
  22. But We Need the Rain

2015 6

  1. Marcus Vitruvius’s Science
  2. Mark Jacobson’s Science
  3. Creativity, Philosophy, and Not Acting Your Age
  4. Great Philosophers Damned to Hell
  5. Pure Green Sense
  6. More Philosophy for Engineers

2014 8

  1. The Onagawa Reactor Non-Meltdown
  2. Incommensurability and the Design-Engineering Gap
  3. Arianna Huffington, Wisdom, and Stoicism 1.0
  4. Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis in the Engineering and Procurement of Systems
  5. How to Pick a Spouse
  6. A New Era of Risk Management?
  7. Common-Mode Failure Driven Home
  8. Sun Follows the Solar Car

2013 12

  1. Belief in Probability – Part 2
  2. Belief in Probability – Part 1
  3. On Imperatives for Innovation
  4. Is Fault Tree Analysis Deductive?
  5. Great Innovative Minds: A Discord on Method
  6. Feynman’s Minority Report and Top-Down Design
  7. You’re So Wrong, Richard Feynman
  8. Just a Moment, Galileo
  9. Epistemology of Innovation
  10. Intuitive Probabilities – Conjunction Malfunction
  11. Intuitive Probabilities
  12. Moral Truths and True Beliefs

2012 21

  1. Debbie Downer Doesn’t Do Design
  2. A Helicopter Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  3. Engineering Innovation, Environmentalism and Sustainable Energy
  4. US Wind Power Limitations – Simple Math
  5. Wind Energy (Light)
  6. Is Clean Energy a Wicked Problem? – Part 3
  7. Is Clean Energy a Wicked Problem? – Part 2
  8. Is Clean Energy a Wicked Problem?
  9. Richard Rorty: A Matter for the Engineers
  10. Kaczynski, Gore, and Cool Headed Logicians
  11. Why Rating Systems Sometimes Work
  12. Paul Feyerabend – The Worst Enemy of Science
  13. The Incommensurable Thomas Kuhn
  14. Dislodged Systems Engineers
  15. Spurious Regression
  16. Wind Science Fluttering in the Breeze
  17. Collective Decisions and Social Influence
  18. Wisdom and Madness of the Yelp Crowd
  19. Science, Holism and Easter
  20. Management Initiatives and the Succession of Divine Generations
  21. The Systems Thinking Wars