You’ll have heard the speech by now. Barack Obama yesterday addressed a large crowd and said that McCain was Going to try and make you scared of me. [polite applause] You know, […]
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Does watching TV cause autism?
I have no idea, but two gentlemen from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell and one from the Economics department at Purdue seem to think so. They have written a paper, […]
Help! WordPress won’t show other pages
UPDATE: All seems well again. Thanks to everybody for their help! I have been having a hell of a time trying to upgrade. Everything now seems OK, except that I can’t see […]
Do not try the WPAU plugin
I had a hell of a scare when I tried the WPAU plugin. It is the Word Press Automatic Update software, maintained here. This blog runs on WordPress, served by Yahoo, a […]
On the difference between mathematical ability between boys and girls
Today’s headlines mostly got it wrong: The New York Sun said “Study Shatters Myth That Boys Are Better At Math.” The New York Post said “Girls = boys in math skills.” The […]
On Bias
UPDATE: some statistics on this from Investor’s Business Daily. What would you think if you were reading a new research result, written by people who all had advanced academic degrees in the […]
A Rhetorical Question
A tip of the hat to Dennis Dutton’s Arts and Letters Daily where this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education appeared. Incidentally, since the Chronicle bought out A&LD, there have been […]
More Art
The New Museum is hosting an exhibition entitled “After Nature” whose tagline is “THE earth will pass away with a great noise and there will be no place for it.” It is […]
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