Latin America’s Long Fight for Sovereignty Against the US
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/13/latin-americas-long-fight-for-sovereignty-against-the-us/
John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin. By John Perry Special to Consortium News “An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me.…
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@UofGravity ...(more) ... of course basic problem was not the power of quantitative analysis, but the tendency to think it must be stronger than observation by the less-numerate. Kelvin's student Perry used a quantitative approach to point out flaws in Kelvin's model, but was ignored and attacked by Kelvin, and Guthrie Tait. It's not the quantitative that's wrong. It's the danger of over-confidence. Here's a couple of limericks I wrote about this: #Poetry #AgeOfThe Earth #LordKelvin #JohnPerry