Stuart Vyse
@stuartvyse.bsky.social
Armchair behavioral scientist. Columnist @SkeptInquirer magazine,
"marvelous writer and clear thinker" —Michael Shermer. THE USES OF DELUSION (2022). Room Rater 10/10. stuartvyse.com
"marvelous writer and clear thinker" —Michael Shermer. THE USES OF DELUSION (2022). Room Rater 10/10. stuartvyse.com
Watching the great Lesley Manville in "Phantom Thread" tonight. This appears on her Wikipedia page: "Manville's sister Brenda, nine years her senior, died of a brain tumour. Her sister's husband and two daughters died of Huntington's disease." Life can be an engine for art and art a balm for life.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Watching the great Lesley Manville in "Phantom Thread" tonight. This appears on her Wikipedia page: "Manville's sister Brenda, nine years her senior, died of a brain tumour. Her sister's husband and two daughters died of Huntington's disease." Life can be an engine for art and art a balm for life.
One hundred years ago today.
July 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
One hundred years ago today.
Another example of why you shouldn’t trust Google AI summaries. Both dates are wrong. Wikipedia has it right.
June 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another example of why you shouldn’t trust Google AI summaries. Both dates are wrong. Wikipedia has it right.
I still miss David Rakoff. #ThisAmericanLife
March 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I still miss David Rakoff. #ThisAmericanLife
“I don’t know if I’m unhappy because I’m not free or I’m not free because I’m unhappy.”
March 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“I don’t know if I’m unhappy because I’m not free or I’m not free because I’m unhappy.”
If you are not reading Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume,” you should be. Astonishing.
March 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If you are not reading Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume,” you should be. Astonishing.
This about sums the whole thing up. From Solvej Balle’s ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, book 1, translation by Barbara Haveland.
March 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This about sums the whole thing up. From Solvej Balle’s ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, book 1, translation by Barbara Haveland.
Rewatching Lilith (1964), The Conversation (1974), and Class Action (1991). #GeneHackman
March 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Rewatching Lilith (1964), The Conversation (1974), and Class Action (1991). #GeneHackman
Someone posted my article "The Telepathy Tapes: A Dangerous Cornucopia of Pseudoscience" on Reddit, but the moderators of the Subreddit r/TheTelepathyTapes removed it.
January 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Someone posted my article "The Telepathy Tapes: A Dangerous Cornucopia of Pseudoscience" on Reddit, but the moderators of the Subreddit r/TheTelepathyTapes removed it.
Wonderful indeed. Here is the Millennium Prize that Grigori Perelman declined, in part because he believed Hamilton deserved to share credit, displayed at the Maison Poincaré, Paris. The Clay Institute used Perelman's prize money to endow a research position at the Henri Poincaré Institute.
December 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Wonderful indeed. Here is the Millennium Prize that Grigori Perelman declined, in part because he believed Hamilton deserved to share credit, displayed at the Maison Poincaré, Paris. The Clay Institute used Perelman's prize money to endow a research position at the Henri Poincaré Institute.
A 1955 anti-fluoride campaign with an interesting echo of the pawnshop symbol. "Are you willing to PUT IN PAWN to the UNHOLY THREE all of the material, mental, and spiritual resources of this GREAT REPUBLIC!" See the full flyer here: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
November 20, 2024 at 1:50 PM
A 1955 anti-fluoride campaign with an interesting echo of the pawnshop symbol. "Are you willing to PUT IN PAWN to the UNHOLY THREE all of the material, mental, and spiritual resources of this GREAT REPUBLIC!" See the full flyer here: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...