Issue 9 – The Dawn of a New Year

Happy New Year and welcome to Issue 9. As everyone settles into their resolutions, please consider making a very easy one. Tell your friends and family about Blog Wyrm and resolve to comment on a post. Now that I am done begging let’s look at what’s in this week’s issue.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund gets some time in the spotlight in this week’s About Comics. The CBLDF is an worthy group which I support but I take issue with some of the tactics they employ. The musings on epistemology and murder mysteries which were advertised for Week 8 never got published due to a personal issue so the first part appears in this week’s Aristotle to Digital. Front and center in this discussion are the philosophical ideas from Aristotle and Kant on how we characterize what it means to ‘know’ something. This post sets the foundation for Part 2 in which we meet the modern detective stories of Poe, Christi, Stout, and Eco. Common Cents discusses in a light hearted way how some among us may actually be free riders in the truest sense of the word. In the final column, Under the Hood presents a ‘derivation’ of the Feynman path integral. Along the way, numerous connections are made between the quantum and classical worlds.

Enjoy!