Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1225

“The Osmonds meet Led Zeppelin: A secret history of Mormon heavy metal”

    Okay.  Here’s an aspect of Mormon history that you’ve probably never even wondered about:   http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/22891...   Posted from Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii    

Nordic pride

    My sense of humor is probably pretty warped, but I think this is funny:   http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7NWa/tomcat-vi...   And it’s a tribute to my cuddly Viking ancestors, too.   Posted from Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i    

Objective peer review? Objective hiring in the sciences?

    Did you know that “Symphony orchestras have found that they are more likely to hire women when musicians audition from behind a screen”?   Would you be surprised to learn that analogous bias occurs — commonly — in science-related hiring and publishing?   There are more than a few people out there — [Read More...]

2 Nephi 9

    I could devote several days to today’s wonderfully rich chapter, 2 Nephi 9.  Certainly I could write much more than I’m going to write here.   True to my constraining but (for me) life-saving rule that I will only comment briefly on each chapter, I’m going to restrict myself to 2 Nephi 9:10: [Read More...]

Few such people, alas, are this candid.

    Posted from Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii    

“October’s Feast of Tabernacles”

    Today’s offense against reason, decency, and good taste has been published:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   I feel as if I may have let some of my readers down a bit today.  Commenting negatively on my articles seems to be the raison d’être for some of them, but this column seems not to have inflamed and [Read More...]

Reza Aslan on Bill Maher and stereotyping Muslims

    https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=...   (Thanks to Mike Parker for alerting me to this.) Posted from Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii    

The Democracy of the Dead

  Posted from Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii    

Hope and Experience

    There were predictions that, with the advent of television, people would be enjoying Shakespeare and symphony orchestras in their homes.   But we know how things actually turned out.   So, too, with high level, serious, substantive internet discussions.   Posted from Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii    

Along the Na Pali Coast

      I broke with my pattern of reading and writing today to go with my wife and her sister on a boat trip (with Blue Dolphin Tours) around the southern and western shores of Kauai.     We swam with sea turtles and a large manta ray.  We cruised slowly behind and through pods [Read More...]