This section deals with matters that are of interest to or hold a certain degree of fascination for the author, Dr. Miguel Faria. Unlike the Articles section, Random Notes will be more informal and cover various popular as well as traditional items for discussion. For the most part, these notes have only been published on this website and are open to discussion and emendations by the reply comments of the readers.

Additionally, this section maybe be used as another venue for readers to contribute by posting responses to the "Random Notes" articles, or engage in discussions about these notes.  For those who want to discuss more popular issues such as movies or books, we request that the readers go to the end of those specific sections — namely "Great Books" and "Classic Movies" The readers are in fact invited to contribute in either one of these formats.