http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6739960.ece One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false". Whether it is natural or not, it would seem that the false – the extravagant, the fantastical, the grandiose – can at times be so seductive that we suspend our critical faculties in its consideration. Ronald Fritze, a historian and dean at Athens State University in Alabama, is concerned about, and clearly fascinated by, the pseudo-histories and pseudo-sciences – the stories of… ]]> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:20:00 -0700 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6739960.ece