Ars Veritatis
'The Art of Truth'
Friday, April 17, 2020
On Being 50, Almost Dying, and What It Means To Live
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Yesterday was my fiftieth birthday. Inevitably, after opening gifts, talking to family, and eating delicious chocolate covered strawberries...
Friday, April 3, 2020
The Faces of My Colleagues
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On a Zoom this week Face-to-face with colleagues Close up to grit and grace. What an honor to see The unvarnished fight In their...
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Bereft of me
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For Lee Vodra, For Chris Cornell, For all of us. The only true loss is this loss of a soul, Where once was a person, there now is a hol...
Friday, May 19, 2017
Don't Be a Troll, Be a Wizard!
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A vision for how scientific knowledge engineering could support data-driven policy development. This is a preliminary high-level strategic...
Saturday, January 28, 2017
American Evil
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At around the 6m 50s mark in a podcast from FiveThirtyEight leading up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Nate Silver said the following: ...
Monday, December 21, 2015
The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled
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A fictional character in a movie once said: “ the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist ”. Perhaps ...
Monday, December 7, 2015
On Fighting
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“Americans love to fight,” declared George Patton in his speech to the third army in 1944; it’s clear to me now that although this assertio...
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