Miscellaneous

Daniel Robinson's An Intellectual History of Psychology is more than that. It's psychology and history, but also sociology, culture, philosophy, Patristics, and other things. A great example from Chapter 6, "Nature and Spirit of the Renaissance." Pico, Savonarola, da Vinci . . . then ending with a

John Zmirak rings the alarm bell over at Alateia (my apologies that I'm three weeks behind the curve on this one): "In fact, there is something very serious going on in Catholic intellectual and educational circles, which – if it goes on unchecked – will threaten the pro-life cause,

H.I.F. San Francisco will stop service on its historic cable cars and streetcars lines at 2 pm (PST) Sunday to protect them from overzealous football fans vandals and other troublemakers who might get a bit too rowdy after the Niners win - or lose - in Seattle. Link

H.I.F. This would be a tragedy, if it were beer: "Bottles of Bud Light littered Interstate 71/75 South for most of the day Monday after a tractor-trailer hauling beer overturned on the Brent Spence Bridge at about 4 a.m. 'There's Bud Light

Died of a Hangover? Among my store of historical esoterica that I use to entertain and disgust friends and families with my erudition and hauteur: Alexander the Great died of a hangover. It is one of those things that has long amused me. And, occasionally, it's been one

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 that excellent book, possibly

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