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If anything, I’ve found

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If anything, I’ve found nonfiction a little easier. You don’t have to make anything up. Of course, that’s the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don’t get to make it up. That hasn’t come up too often with this project though. I’m lucky to have tons of primary source … Read more

A fact is a

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A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means. Chauncey Wright

For fear is a

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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question Who am I? recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not. The corollary of this emotional incertitude is … Read more

My goal was to

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My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that’s ever happened, and yet people’s understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy. Bill McKibben

Most bloggers have no

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Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I’ve detected myself using a new rule of … Read more