
Jim Franklin hosted this classic essay of the late David Stove’s for many years. But he received a complaint from one of the intellectually Tolerant. As Franklin said on this site, “An […]
Jim Franklin hosted this classic essay of the late David Stove’s for many years. But he received a complaint from one of the intellectually Tolerant. As Franklin said on this site, “An […]
This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits out a […]
Our beneficent government, through its Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights “sent a letter to colleges nationwide on April 4, 2011, mandating policy changes in the way schools handle sexual assault […]
Here’s the word from the America: The National Catholic Review: The Vatican is set to host a major conference on climate change this month that will feature leading researchers on global warming […]
Gollum (who’s he? see this post on the political witch hunt of scientists) wrote yesterday to announce that a group of us made the “Climate Denial MVP” List. I admit to being […]
What is the probability the following proposition is true? “There are rational beings other than humans in the universe.” Well, given the evidence of angels, who are rational non-human beings, the probability […]
Since it’s teaching time, via Nick B Steves via Bruce Charlton comes this reminiscence of Oxford in the 1970s. In the 70s it was still possible for a distinguished head of a […]
For several years I have been predicting (with perfect accuracy) the best picture Oscar. (See this and this for past years.) The “model” pick for this year is Captain Phillips. Update The […]
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