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HeartMath Solution - A Sugary Pseudoscience Soufflé
Come for the unreplicatable science, stay for the promise of a planetary heart beating out peace for a thousand years.
Feb 18
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R.W. Richey
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A Series of Unfortunate Events
A book full of potential comparisons to our own day for the motivated, and strangely removed from our own day if you're really going to be honest about…
Feb 11
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R.W. Richey
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Radical Markets - I Mean Really Radical
Policy proposals from the White Queen. (It’s a Lewis Carroll reference. No, I’m not talking about the Mad Hatter or the Red Queen. It’s from “Through…
Feb 6
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R.W. Richey
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Gemini Goes Insane — How Should I Update? [Essay]
One part documentation of a strange AI hallucination. One part panic about whether I’ll be put out of business by AI.
Feb 4
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R.W. Richey
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January 2026
Goliath's Curse (and the Agents of Doom!)
Using the Stone of Democracy to Slay the Goliath of Inequality
Jan 30
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R.W. Richey
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Knowing Our Limits - Epistemology Without Bayes
I was promised useful stories to assist me in a quest for justified belief. Instead I got a lesson in the limits of expertise. Unfortunately it was the…
Jan 28
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R.W. Richey
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A YA Series, a First Contact Novel, and a Startup Book Walk Into a Bar—Pursued by Wolves
The wolves help in the Westmarkian revolution, are domesticated by the aliens, and turn the startup into a unicorn, which they promptly devour.
Jan 18
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R.W. Richey
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The Origin of Politics - Kibbutzim, Chimps, and Children
Would you like some genetics in your politics?
Jan 16
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R.W. Richey
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A Case for Latter-Day Christianity - (i.e. A Case for the Christianity of Mormons)
I feel like I should make some clever connection between this book and the discussion which raged about the Shroud of Turin, but nothing occurs to me.
Jan 11
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R.W. Richey
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Taking Religion Seriously - Can You Get to Belief Purely Through Reason?
In which I mostly talk about the Shroud of Turin. Murray only spends seven pages on the it, so my review is not comprehensive. Actually, never mind…
Jan 9
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R.W. Richey
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Children of Mars - Sid Meier's Civilization Lied
Back when Rome was just one Italian settlement out of many, but a settlement with a dream!
Jan 7
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R.W. Richey
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Origins of Efficiency - The Glories of the Modern World
We have a lot of nice things. We’re really good at making nice things. We should preserve these nice things. But also nothing lasts forever?
Jan 3
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R.W. Richey
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