Friday, February 26, 2010

Links for Thinking

* A long lost letter by Descartes has been found; it's to Mersenne and discusses the publication of the Meditations. You can find more details at the website of Erik Jan-Bos, the discoverer.

* A macroeconomics cube of opposition. I lack sufficient grounding in a number of the positions to know how accurate it is, but it looks interesting.

* A good post by Paul Gowder on a common error about shared responsibility.

* Dog jousts rabbit. Poor rabbit.

* Burying the dead in Haiti. Burying the dead is one of the traditional corporal works of mercy.

* Christopher Tolkien's translation of, and commentary on, The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. (PDF)

* Erasmus's Anti-Polemus.

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* James Chastek has a good post on good taste.

* Lindsay Beyerstein has a sensible post on the Austin plane crash and terrorism.