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Max Planck’s Mighty Minimum
Suppose for instance someone maintained that there is a minimum magnitude; that man with his minimum would shake the foundations of mathematics.
So prophesied Aristotle more twenty-four centuries ago. And, as with many things Aristotelian,...
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What ‘Following the Science’ Really Means: The Limits of Medicine and Moral Freedom
If there is one thing that is omnipresent in empirical research, it is doubt.
This line has always stuck with me, from a methodology textbook I studied years ago. We may rephrase this in a...
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Matthew’s Marvelous Metanoia
Saint Matthew, also known as Levi, presents Christ as the new Moses, leading His people from the darkness and slavery of sin into the light and freedom of salvation. Yet, Matthew also likely saw...
Editor's Corner
Trudeau’s Totalitarianism
A vote for Trudeau and his Liberals is a vote for totalitarianism, and a pernicious version at that.
Before we cast that ballot, dear reader, we should ponder, reflect and inform our conscience, before which...
Editor's Corner
Dante’s Seven Centuries
Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago today, at the age of 56, on the evening of September 13th, 1321, fittingly the vigil of the feast of the Holy Cross, at Ravenna, exiled from his...
Editor's Corner
Crecy and the Changing Face of War
The protracted Hundred Years' War, (if the term protracted is not redundant) which was more like a series of dynastic wars mainly between French and England, lasted more than a decade longer than its...
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The Muddled Metaphysics of Darwin
(Today, August 20th, marks the anniversary of the publication Darwin's Origin of Species, in 1858, whose full title includes also "by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle...
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Return of the Taliban, 2.0
What is one to say of the 'fall of Afghanistan' over the weekend, which many - myself included - predicted as soon as we sent troops over there in 2001. Perhaps more accurately we...
