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Internet Guidelines From The Rule Of St Benedict — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain…
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Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics
Tell you right up front that the only way to be sure of solving the crisis in higher education is to nuke universities from orbit and then salt the grounds…
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Why Americans Left Christianity And Became Nones
The title of the Pew report which we'll discuss is "Why America's 'nones' left religion behind", though, as you can see, I modified it. For good reason. The original Pew…
Posted inStatistics
Gonorrhea, Wee P-values, and Tax Increases
Adventurous reader Ted Poppke discovered a peer-reviewed paper that, according to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), proved that increasing sales tax on booze "caused a 24% decrease in gonorrhea cases…
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On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI
So this 44-year-old Frenchman---let's call him Jacques---presented for a "mild left leg weakness". The leg bone being connected to the hip bone, etc., it was eventually discovered that Jacques's "skull…
Posted inBook review Statistics
Uncertainty Reviewed In The New Criterion
"William Briggs, the civilized world's most amusing statistician." Roger Kimball, author of The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, The Rape of the Masters: How…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellects Are Not Material
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Our intellects…
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Reader Query & Assist Request: Health Data In India
Busy Saturday, so a plea from reader Aman Rastogi: Sir, I am a student from Lucknow University, INDIA, pursuing my Masters in Public Health there. Few days back I have…