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Science Says It’s Better To Be Single

The headline reads "It's better to be single, study finds." The study is the peer-reviewed paper "Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to…

Culture

Peter Thiel’s Reformation-University Comparison Isn’t So Good

From Breitbart. Technology giant Peter Thiel argued this week that American universities are as corrupt as the Catholic Church of 500 years ago. Speaking to a group of conservative students…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update XXXIX

Item California university's website says its OK for children to engage in 'sexual play,' watch porn It adds that parents should intervene only "if the acts are non-consensual or hurtful."…

Culture

Do Nones Really Have No Religion?

Bishop Robert Barron delivered this year's Erasmus Lecture last Monday, "Evangelizing the Nones", sponsored by First Things magazine. Your Roving Reporter was there. Nones are those who profess, when asked…

Book review Statistics

Uncertainty: The Soul of Models, Probability & Statistics. Chapter Abstracts

This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we're 1.5 years out, it's time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update XVI

Item When we remove the labels that we give each other, we find that our connections outweigh our divisions. https://twitter.com/BritishArmy/status/912259152642064384 The British Military has gone from Trafalgar and Roark's Drift…

Statistics

New Paper! A Volatile Discourse

Here's the abstract from the peer-reviewed (so you know everything in it must be true and sworn to by every rational human being now and forever) paper "A volatile discourse…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

Video: How To Think About Statistics, Figures, And New Ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmMBLTz6Pp8 Hard link to the video. This post ran originally on 28 February 2015. Given the quiet weekend, I postponed our Summa Contra Gentiles until next week. It is a…

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