The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

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...

So I'm back in The 'Hagen. Thoughts from last time are here . A surprisingly large effect of being on holiday is the impact of no ...

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...

As the Greek rather astutely noted, the last post on picking a mail order bride  was guilty of burying the lead somewhat, in that I didn...

Those of us who enjoy collecting correlations as a hobby sometimes yearn for a higher stakes version of our craft, something like the Correl...

The great Gary Becker has apparently passed away . One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, along with Keynes and Friedma...

The problem of me getting busy at work is that it seems to have coincided with a marked increase in the frequency of outbreaks of brown scar...

Last time's thoughts here and here . -Concert festivals are one of the very few ways to a get a relative price measure of the popula...

Some excellent thoughts from the good doctor : “Do you care about the health of the planet?” is a question not quite in the class of “Hav...

Well, Moldbug was certainly prescient on this one. (Isn't he always?). The technology brown scare  has really started to flex its muscl...

Some days the world is tragic in ways that don't leave you with much left to say. Via Athenios comes this story from Greece : An in...

It is almost an article of faith among certain parts of the left that they are the party of science. The right is full of knuckle-dragging, ...

-Similar to when I went bungee jumping, the first sensation of jumping and free-falling was somewhat overwhelming, in the sense that my brai...

So much has been said speculating about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that may or may not have crashed, or been hijacked, or been del...

Dating web sites are fascinating places to go to see evidence of the lack of introspection of most people, particularly most young people. A...

Social customs are strange things. Some rules are totally arbitrary (fork on the left, knife on the right), but usually these end up being c...

Look at these preening poseurs , parading their ostentatious compassion like a badge of their moral purity: Thousands of people have held ...