Get Real
Federico Bitti, who had dystonia, was helped by Joaquin Farias, an expert in biomechanics. I love the independent thought and the benevolence of this guy!! …
Logic
On Note-Taking
I teach principles in the concrete and in the abstract such as (1) visual variation, (2) using space as much as using content, (3) recording …
Mirrors, and Thinking in Principles
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be: the mythologized epitome of …
Afternotes From a Meeting (23Jan2022)
1. I recommend reading and analyzing The Soul of a Horse by Joe Camp for its structure, for the thinking skills and logic implicit in it, for …
How the Reasonable Argue With Each Other
In “How to Argue With Kindness and Care: 4 Rules from Philosopher Daniel Dennett” (Open Culture, 19 Jun 2019), Josh Jones writes:” Like their classical …
Donate To a Good Cause: Rational Education
Donate to support the ReasonRX Podcast on PayPal or on Patreon. In this podcast, we will discuss, from a rational perspective, all things education-related. The …
The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation by Quentin Reynolds
This book does a good job of showing — in a general, introductory way — the inductions the Wright Brothers made and the skills they …
Definitions
It is very important to learn methods: to learn how to reason out concepts, generalizations, and principles, so you can take action. But a key …
Scurvy: An Example of Science vs. the Scientific Community
In “Scott and Scurvy” (Idle Words, 6 March 2010), Maciej Cegłowski writes: One of the most striking features of the disease is the disproportion between …
In Education, Get the Fundamentals
Much of modern education likes to teach ideas to students so that they can deduce individual facts. It likes to think that if it teaches …