Category: Notes

Notes On Kenneth Feder’s Frauds, Myths, And Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (8th Edition, 2014)

Feder, Kenneth. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. 8th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Thanks goes out to the professor of archaeology Dr. Laura Murphy for putting this book on my radar. I enjoyed the read and can see myself recommending it… Continue Reading “Notes On Kenneth Feder’s Frauds, Myths, And Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (8th Edition, 2014)”

The Failures of Exploring Reality’s Attack on Jesus Christ Mythicism

In this article, I respond to Exploring Reality’s YouTube video titled “Did Jesus Exist? The Failures of Mythicism.” It was released on Sept. 18th, 2021, and has a runtime of 25 minutes and 21 seconds. I don’t know whether or not there was a… Continue Reading “The Failures of Exploring Reality’s Attack on Jesus Christ Mythicism”

Notes On Kamp, et al.’s Writing History! A Companion For Historians

Kamp, Jeannette, et al. Writing History!: A Companion for Historians. Translated, Amsterdam University Press, 2018. This book was written for academics and non-academics who are interested in understanding how history is written and what they can do to write history with increasing efficiency. The… Continue Reading “Notes On Kamp, et al.’s Writing History! A Companion For Historians”

Notes On Martin Davies’ How History Works (2016)

Davies, Martin. How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science (Routledge Approaches to History). 1st ed., Routledge, 2016. This book “explores how history produces sense (i.e. what it does for itself) and how history functions in the world already shaped … by history,… Continue Reading “Notes On Martin Davies’ How History Works (2016)”

Notes On Shalini Dixit’s The Psychology Of Teaching Critical History

Dixit, Shalini. The Psychology of Teaching Critical History. 1st ed., Routledge India, 2021. Shalini Dixit’s The Psychology of Teaching Critical History is a brilliant dive into the realm of historical understanding. It explores the fundamentals of how history is perceived, how it is taught… Continue Reading “Notes On Shalini Dixit’s The Psychology Of Teaching Critical History”

Notes On Ian Haywood’s Faking It: Art and the Politics of Forgery

Haywood, Ian. Faking It: Art and the Politics of Forgery. First Edition, St. Martin’s Press, 1987. Aside from the information on forgeries, my favorite part of this book was the vocabulary. A lot of the pages had words which compelled me to gain a… Continue Reading “Notes On Ian Haywood’s Faking It: Art and the Politics of Forgery”

Notes On Marcia Ramalho’s AETHER

Marcia Ramalho’s AETHER video has been popular in alternative history circles for a number of years now. I remember when the first version dropped in late 2018 (Aug. 19) and I remember when the updated video was dropped in late 2020 (Sep. 1). The… Continue Reading “Notes On Marcia Ramalho’s AETHER”

Notes on David A. Sousa’s mind, brain, & education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom

It’s mid-February, the day after Valentine’s day (Feb. 15th) to be exact, and I’m starting Sousa’s book that was published in 2010 titled “mind, brian, & education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom”. I finished reading Storr’s Unpersuadables today and I had to decide what… Continue Reading “Notes on David A. Sousa’s mind, brain, & education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom”

Notes On “Myths And Reality In History”

I took some time to look at the Russian wiki page for Fomenko’s New Chronology today. The first citation of theirs was to new.chronologia.org and the second one was a download in Russian that I was not able to use the page translate feature… Continue Reading “Notes On “Myths And Reality In History””

Notes On Will Storr’s The Unpersuadables: Adventures With The Enemies Of Science

Overall I enjoyed Storr’s book. I didn’t know if I was going to finish it at first because I really didn’t care much for chapter 1 but as I continued on I began to enjoy Storr’s writing style. The chapters are all quite short… Continue Reading “Notes On Will Storr’s The Unpersuadables: Adventures With The Enemies Of Science”

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