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Tyranny Of The Mean
The mean can be nasty. This should come as news to no one. But since, the good Lord knows why, this topic made it into the New York Times, it…
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Oh Good, We Have Consensus About Climate Change
See if you agree with me: agreeing with me isn't proof that that which we agree about is true. Doesn't mean that that which we agree about is wrong, neither,…
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Where’s Your Poppy? — The Blonde Bombshell Speaks
Memorial Day in the Midwest isn't just celebrated on the last Monday of May, but it starts weeks before when volunteers from the local VFW stage themselves in front of…
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Top 15 Posts Of All Time: My Choice
When last we met, that sodden yet miserably cold, supposedly summer-ish day, we gandered at the top 20 posts of all time, as decided by you, the reader. It's not…
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Top 20 Posts Of All Time: Reader’s Choice
Start of long weekend, where the Nation trips happily outside into the warm summer sun. Well, sun anyway---more or less. Not really summer, either. Turns out the climate change forecasts…
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The Sexual Habits Of The Tunisian Male Quantified At Last
You know that we have begun at the peak and that it's all downhill when a scientific paper starts with a sentence like this: La sexualité occupe une place très…
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People Growing Dumber Or Research Growing Slacker?
If there was ever a paper which was in danger of refuting itself by its title, this is it. "Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence…
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What’s The Official Name For Governance By Thuggery?
To summarize what we know, but only in brief and leaving out many smaller scandals: The White House lied about the cause of Benghazi. They knowingly, willingly, and falsely claimed…
