Admetus and Argus grew up reading the same books. In high school their literary paths diverged:  Admetus sought  science while Argus followed fiction.  We met in college, where we spent four years, baiting and debating each other and everyone within earshot about every subject imaginable.  After coaching freshman debate teams our senior year, we decided to continue their convivial arguments in a more public forum.

Our pseudonyms stem from a mutual (albeit unequal) love of the stories told by the ancient Greeks.  But instead of sailing the Mediterranean in search of golden treasure, we sail upon a ship made of arguments across all we can see. We have no charted course, for our paths are yet untrodden and our destinations are unknown. Instead, we interrogate issues as we encounter them. Your thoughts—whether about our nautical arguments or about some other topic—are welcome.

Our most recent debate (on engineering education) prior to beginning this blog is reproduced below. And Admetus may disagree with me about this our initial self-description, so let us then begin the arguments again…