I’ve chosen the title “an attempt” for the blog in line with something one of the presenters said at this MIT conference: in the very basic meaning of the word, an “essay” is an attempt. And that is what most of the contents here will probably be: short essays, i. e. attempts.
There is also a reason for the url of the page, my “name.” Stephen Colbert termed the name ‘truthiness’ “to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively, instinctively, or “from the gut” without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or actual facts” (cf “Truthiness” Wikipedia). I guess you are going to find many of those here. Hence the name.
