The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Let me begin with the obvious. I do not actually expect you to actually read these. The dead, as Kipling observed, are only borne in mind fo...

I understand why Moldbug wanted to write a post on the coronavirus . As usual, Moldbug was ahead of the curve. The reason is that he reads...

Continued from Part 1 . If you've just joined us, we're giving a good fisking to the Mayo Clinic's worthless list of STD ri...

Every time I read anything about STD risks, I tend to get mightily annoyed at how difficult it is to get any useful information from the me...

Back when I was in high school, it seemed important to do something cool to get rid of my nerd image. In the fertile logic of the teenage mi...

Over at Hacker News, there was a link to this great Forbes article talking about the differences in regulation in the treatment of eggs . A...

Step 1. Go to websites like Healthgrades  or RateMDs  and check out the ratings of doctors in your area Step 2. Read through the reviews, ...

So I'm about half way through the Obamacare ruling - so far, I've gotten through the Roberts opinion and the Ginsburg opinion. My t...

An Oregon environmentalist decides to save the planet with reusable shopping bags instead of disposable plastic bags. They instead end up ...

At some point, the incremental loss of liberty in Britain becomes such a constant depressing dripping that it's hard to maintain the in...

I was in the gym with SMH and we'd adjourned to the locker rooms to shower. SMH is American, and a fairly organised kind of fellow. As...