Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
The Zapruder Film as a Gettier Problem
Alternative Title: Review of Robert Sanger, “Gettier in a Court of Law” (Part 1) Now that I am back from my short beach vacation, I want to turn my attention to Bob Sanger’s beautiful 2018 paper “Gettier in a Court … Continue reading
Monday Mathematics
Check out this beautiful paper by Jöran Friberg: “A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts” — the final page of which is pictured below — hat tip: @pickover.
Visualizing 6 June 1944 (D-Day)
Originally posted on prior probability:
In honor of the anniversary of D-Day, I am re-blogging my “D-Day in Numbers” post below. prior probability View original post
Starship Saturday
Are you ready to fly to Mars? In addition to my summer readings (see my previous post), I have also read this fascinating essay titled “The profound potential of Elon Musk’s new rocket: an aerospace engineer explains why SpaceX’s Starship … Continue reading
My top ten readings (summer break)
My family and I will be spending the weekend at Ormond Beach to celebrate the end of the school year, so I will be blogging less frequently, if at all, until Tuesday. (My youngest daughter’s last day of school was … Continue reading
Throwback Thursday: Darwin in Tierra del Fuego
“Deconstructing Darwin” was one of my first scholarly papers — it was published in Volume 14 of the Griffith Law Review, a law journal in Australia, way back in 2005! Below is the abstract: “The paper considers Charles Darwin’s physical … Continue reading
Is free speech dead at Stanford?
A Sanford law student posted the satirical poster pictured below and now Stanford has put his law degree on hold. As a card-carrying member of The Federalist Society myself, I object to Stanford’s anti-free speech administrators and call on Stanford’s … Continue reading
Ban the bots?
Or at least require full disclosure, i.e. require bots on social media platforms to self-identify as such? A Twitter bot, for example, is a type of software that controls a Twitter account without human intervention (i.e. autonomously), performing such actions … Continue reading
Two cheers for Los Dinos
One of the things I like the most about Selena: The Series on Netflix is how the series also features some of the lesser-known members of Selena’s band Los Dinos, like A.B. Quintanilla (composer and producer), Suzette Quintanilla (drums), Pete … Continue reading

