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Never too old to learn
I’m at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to spend time […]
On tolerance
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.’s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had the bad […]
Reasons the Apocalypse is not near
For reasons that are obvious to all, I have have been studying the imminent arrival of the apocalypse. Whether you are a Christian millenarian, or you thought the Mayans were on to […]
The Noble Savage Altruistic Warrior
There is a charming myth among idealists that before industrialization and its accoutrements, such as patriarchy and pollution, mankind lived an entirely peaceful existence. That is, there was no war. Man was […]
Informative Kindle 2 review at Amazon
Gadget Queen, an owner of a Kindle 1 and 2, posted this review of the Kindle 2 at Amazon. It confirms the suspicions I had a while back that you will be […]
The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part 2
Last time we showed that as the percentage of people who attend college increased, it necessarily meant that the difficulty of courses offered by colleges decreased, thus the value of a “college […]
French woman led away in chains for refusing to be safe
I’m exaggerating only slightly. What happened was that a woman, while entering the subway, refused to hold the handrail of the escalator she was on. This is against the law in The […]
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