Eric Scheske

H.I.F. It also helps with hangovers: "[R]esearchers at the Johns Hopkins University have found another use for [caffeine]: memory enhancer." Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/jolt-your-memory/].

Kingsley offers some advice for drinking abroad. A few of these items, I'm guessing, would apply locally as well: > Faced with a choice between bad or untrustworthy red wine on the one hand, and ditto white on the other, pick the red. > Smell the stuff carefully

If you haven't checked out Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, you seriously ought to consider it, if you're curious to know more about your mental world and those of others' (just $2.99 on Kindle). It's a great book that

One of the favorite book reviews I ever wrote was for Touchstone, writing about Etienne Gilson's The Unity of Philosophical Experience (which Ignatius Press had recently re-issued). Link [http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=13-09-035-b]. I was reminded of that review (and

H.I.F. Emphasis added: "America's youth are leaving churches in droves. One in four young adults choose “unaffiliated” when asked about their religion, according to a 2012 Public Religion Research Institute poll, and 55 percent of those unaffiliated youth once had a religious identification when they

"Anecdotes of NEA grantee superciliousness are as numerous as grains of sand in the seashore. For our purposes, one will suffice: when George Plimpton paid Aram Saroyan $1,500 for a poem consisting of the single misspelled word 'lighght,' an Iowa congressional aid dared ask the dilettantish

"It is always in the nature of great wealth to be insanely tempted (though it should know from active experience how little wealth can give), to push on to more and more domination over the bodies of men–and it can do so best by attacking fixed social restraints.

Mencken was such an intellectual snob, I find him hard to read sometimes, but his broadsides scatter way too much truth to be ignored: > The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets

Miscellaneous Rambling I've probably listened to about 50 episodes of The Journey Home, with Marcus Grodi. EWTN puts them into podcast format. They're perfect listening for low-mental tasks like gardening. It dawned on me a little while ago that not a single convert to Catholicism

A new study found that babies as young as nine months can tell the difference between friends and enemies. Which raises a lot of questions, like: What kind of babies have enemies?