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Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast
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A New Kind Of University: Your Comments Wanted
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AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
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You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
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Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200
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The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
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Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
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Death By Organ Donation
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
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Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast

Posted by By Briggs September 9, 2026
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Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”

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The Truth of Things: When Probability & Statistics Cannot Be Used

I am always struggling with (my limited ability of) finding ways to describe the philosophy behind logical probability, especially to people who have a difficult time unlearning classical frequentist theory.…
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Poem Code Challenge Solution

Back in September we surrendered to our geek roots and described poem codes. These are a handy method of enciphering short messages in the absence of electronic equipment. A poem…
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Is Experimental Economics Irrational?

Everybody knows there's no such thing as money. So how come everybody acts like it's real? In particular, why do economists and other similar creatures find the lack of "rationality"…
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My Answers to Willis Eschenbach’s 14 + 2 Questions

Repost Mr Eschenbach had not had the chance to respond to this article before the two weeks wherein comments are automatically closed have elapsed. This re-post will allow him, and…
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Pajamas Media: The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It?

Today's post is at Pajamas Media: "The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It?" I have a ghost of an old song---big band days---hiding in the back…
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What Can Volcanic Dust Models Tell Us About Cap & Trade?

Say Eyjafjallajokull three times fast. I wish I could say it once. I've heard it in so many different forms since it blew its stack that I can't be sure…
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Harvard Classes: Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball

Yesterday, we pointed out that Cornell has some odd courses on its books, subjects which are not consonant with typical expectations of a classical education. So, in the interest of…
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Cornell University to Offer Degree in News Anchor Hairdo Studies

Ezra Cornell, a generous man concerned deeply about his country and its culture, when he created his eponymous university in 1868 said, "I would found an institution where any person…
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  1. Brian (bulaoren) on Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris PodcastSeptember 9, 2026

    Nature abhors a vacuum

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    In the distant past when dinosaurs roamed the earth and volcanoes belched hourly, we kids (being on summer vacation from…

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    Ps. When I saw "River's Edge", it reminded me of a, weirdly, morally ambiguous 1950s Hitchcock film (with Jerry "Beaver"…

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    As a child in the 1960s, I tended to get injured more often in warm months than in cold months,…

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    Today's subject seems a bit too warm to touch. Well, somebody has to break the ice (9?). I keep remembering…

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