Category Archives: World

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Occam's Razor and Health Care

I hate to say it, but I’m generally feeling a less optimistic about health care after having some smart conversations today with some very smart people here in beautiful (not kidding!) Pittsburgh, where I’m here for the next couple of …

Printing and Literature in Fantasy Settings « Creatively Anomalous

In a steampunk setting, for example, the printing press has (usually) been invented and propagated. Sword and Sorcerory-style settings occasionally have scribes or calligraphers. But by and large, the topic of printing and literature …