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Pope Benedict To Resign
Word just came in that our scholar pope is resigning. Old age. First Holy Father to give up the reins since the early fifteenth century. A holy Cincinnatus, as it…
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Historic Storm Nemo And The Feminization Of America. Crucial Photographic Updates
Post's original title: Feminization continues apace: Wall Street Journal edition The old joke has been modified: A sweater is a garment a citizen puts on when the government gets cold.…
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Selective Abortion To Create Master Race: Progressive Academic Pushes For Moral Enhancement
Today's discovery is yet another academic with the map to Utopia glistening in his mind's eye. David DeGrazia of George Washington University, author of the peer-reviewed paper "Moral enhancement, freedom,…
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Sex Selection And In Vitro Fertilization
I'm always on the lookout for remunerative ways to spend my time. There yesterday on the American Statistical Association jobs site was a situation for a Medical Statistician, which is…
E-books Will Lead To A Decrease In Reading
I have a Kindle. (It was generously donated by a reader a few years ago.) I have, say, 200 books on it, nearly all free from Project Gutenberg and similar…
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Firearm Homicide Rates Around The World: Comparing With USA
Here's an around the world tour of homicide rates by firearm, brought to you by our friends at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Rates are per 100,000…
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Bayesian Probability Is Not Subjective (It Only Seems Like It Is)
Logic Start with standard logic; think syllogisms. This is not a trick question: Is it true or false that C = "George wears a hat"? There is no way to…
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Bayesian Probability & Swinburne’s P-Inductive & C-Inductive Arguments (For God’s Existence)
Because I am jet-lagged (and fundamentally lazy) here is a classic post, modified to include a homework assignment. Don't be like me: do the work. This post contains some fundamental…