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Death By Organ Donation
July 27, 2026
$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
July 23, 2026
Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
July 20, 2026
Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
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University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing
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The Equality Paradox
July 9, 2026
My Horrible Interaction With AI
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SOON
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The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
July 6, 2026
Happy Birthday to US
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Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)
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Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!
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The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
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Marbles!
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Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example
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Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic
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Truly Random Numbers Found?
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Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC
June 11, 2026
Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!
June 10, 2026
The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
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Death By Organ Donation

Posted by By Briggs July 27, 2026
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?

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Who Is A Mother When Same-Sex “Marriage” Arrives?

A headline in the 2 January 2013 The Telegraph ran: First baby born in France in 2013 has two mothers The story informs us the birth mother is named Maude,…
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Precaution: Part I — Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

The can things with the sharp little edges That can cut your fingers when you're not looking The soft little things on the floor that you step on They can…
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American Atheists, Hispanic Division Sues Federal Government Over Documents

The American Atheists have once again filed suit, this time against the Federal Government over its use of the Spanish language in official documents. The litigious group has previously sued…
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How’d Our 2012 Predictions Fare?

We didn't have a such a bad year making picks---here's the list. Make predictions for 2013 here. Yours truly picked Mitt Romney as president. A wishcast not a forecast! A…
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Predictions 2013—Register Yours Today!

Time for our annual guessing game about what's to come for 2013. The predictions we made for 2012 will be posted and analyzed tomorrow. We have one week to enter…
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The Curious Case Of Professor Richard Parncutt; Or, Death To Deniers And The Pope!

Austrian professor Richard Parncutt1 has called for folks like me to hunted down and, for his pleasure, shoved into gas chambers. I jest not. He really did say that "influential"…
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Is Anything Really Right or Wrong? Speech by Peter Kreeft

Lazy Friday, so here's a fun video from Peter Kreeft. In it Kreeft offers half a dozen refutations of moral relativism, and then a similar number of proofs of absolutism.…
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Logan’s Run: A Progressive Utopia

I heard they were (possibly) remaking Logan's Run and I wondered why. It's not that the original was terrific or timeless, but it did tell one essential truth: what life…
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  1. hudbwu on Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say AcademicsJuly 26, 2026

    And to think that 20 years ago, when I was much younger, I would have fallen for these things.

  2. Eric Kay Sci Fi on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 24, 2026

    Thanks for the write-up. Thinking about things in the way of a probability distribution has always helped me, but also…

  3. Philip Rogan on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 24, 2026

    Brian, good comment. A coincidence is only a coincidence to the person to which the coincidence occurred.

  4. John Pate on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 23, 2026

    Now do Synchronicity.

  5. Brian (bulaoren) on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 23, 2026

    If a 7/11 sale occurrs in a forest, and nobody is around to document it, does it make a sound?…

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