Suggested Reads
Dear Reader,
I am taking a break until Wednesday. This is partly because this newsletter's hosting site crashed earlier today. It's also because I need a few more days to recover from Friday's post, much of which I wrote during a week-long dull headache. I also think that post has some linked-to essays worth exploring, and I imagine an extra day or two to glance over them will be appreciated.
Speaking of Friday's post, I knew the one time I commented on typos in a different writer's manuscript, one would remain in my text, no matter how many proofreads I gave it. I believe all errors are removed now, and, of equal importance, I cleaned up the spacing so that when it appears in a certain format, one sentence that had multiple citations no longer blurs those citations together (this is a problem that appeared only on phones, a format I don't typically test for prior to publishing). As someone asked why I didn't link to Informal Logic in the piece, there you are.
Also, some have mentioned a difficulty in sharing these posts. That is, when they tried forwarding the newsletter, Gmail and other email entities did some reformatting that makes them hard to read. To remedy this annoyance, at the bottom of each emailed newsletter the words "view this email online" appear. As long as I haven't turned the link private or deleted the post, when you click on those words, you'll be taken to a shareable web page containing the newsletter, which should remove the inconsistency of forwarded emails.
Recommended reading in the interim:
For a lyrical reflection on the housebound life, from a different period of time and a particular perspective, try "The Third Thing."
For an excellent meditation on reading, try "Into Wonderland."
And I might suggest re-reading Friday's monstrous post, perhaps investigating some of it its attendant citations. (Or any of the older posts. That whole list can be found here.) If you do re-read Friday's post and would like to see something about how scientific uncertainty interacts with models, FiveThirtyEight does a mostly excellent job with a basic intro, and it's conveniently outlined as a comic, so it's easily processed.
I appreciate your comments, sharing with other readers, and continued reflection on the reading life.
Kreigh