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Hayek on Scientific Knowledge and its Limits
“[T]he confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems.” Hayek, F.…
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حلقة عن الرجل النملة.
ما كتبته في 2018 كان سيصبح حلقة تعرضها مؤسسة الكويت للتقدم العلمي، ولكن المشروع لم يكتمل. سألوني عن رأيي كخريج فيزياء أن أتحدث عن الفيلم، ولم يكن لدي الكثير من الوقت حيث أني كنت أحضر لمؤتمؤ سألقي فيه محاضرة في بيروت، فشاهدت الفيلم مع أخي غازي قبل السفر وكتبته هناك، وهذه محاور الحلقة التي أعددتها.…
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A Disappreciation of the Term ‘Privilege.’
“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.” Terence Words are ambiguous, vague, and dynamic. They do not have singular meanings. They mean different things to different people. And as a fad is diffusing among people, the meanings of the very same words become a function of time in the sense that they change for…
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A Review of Dome of the Hidden Pavilion, by James Tate.
Introduction: I was introduced to James Tate through a selection of the ‘best’ American poetry of 2016. The series now is not even worth the paper it is printed on due to their ‘inclusion’ of poems written by professors of English literature, generally understood to be the worst poetry writers, maybe right after postcolonial studies,…
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A Review of Down Below, by Leonora Carrington
Introduction: What is insanity? To what limit should people be believed? Is there a proper environment for our minds to function in, in order for us to be aware of the world in the usual sense? And moreover, is there a usual, proper, abundant, awareness of the external world that people tend to experience? Can…
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A Review of Existentialism is a Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
“Things must be accepted as they are. What is more, to say that we invent values means neither more nor less that this: Life has no meaning a priori. Life itself is nothing until it is lived, it is we who give it meaning, and value is nothing more than the meaning that we give…
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A Review of Get Organized, by Ciara Conlon
Introduction: If you are looking for a self-help book, it doesn’t get more self-help than you’ll be finding here, and the cheap Audible variety of self-help. The book is a string of cliches and buzzwords. The advice is scattered everywhere, and little of it is particularly useful. I recall one of the central pieces of…
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A Review of Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Introduction: Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian actress who starred in several movies and TV shows before switching to the stage. She wrote many novels and plays, of which the two most famous are Fall on Your Knees, and this one. This particular play caught my attention in 2014 because of its cover. I read it…
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