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E-Holiday!
This is it! I am taking an e-holiday. Except for work-related mop-up operations, no Internet, no Twitter, no email, no TV, no cell phone, no blog, no nothing. I have…
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Uncertainty and the World: An interview with W. M. Briggs at Ordeal of Consciousness
Our friend Dover Beach, perhaps after having taken a fall or because he stood too close to Hillary and caught her disease, considered it would be well to interview Yours…
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New York Times Is Looking For A Climate Change Editor. That’s Me!
Dean Baquet and Sam Dolnick New York Times New York, NY Re: Climate Change Editor Dear Misters Baquet and Dolnick, Please accept my application for the position of Climate Change…
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Ad Hominem, My Sweet
I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early…
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Teaching: No Post, No Podcast, But One Book
Tried to do it, but ran out of time. Not only is there the teaching, and the radio shows, and the eating, and the talking too much, but there is…
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Consider The Hand — Guest Post by the Blonde Blombshell
Editor's note As I prepare for class this weekend, I have some guest posts and reader's questions prepared for us. The poor hands of the modern person are becoming nothing…
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Think You Can Simulate A Brain? Think Again
Since is Silly Saturday, a few fun back-of-the-envelope calculations on simulating a brain. I'm drawing from the marvelous, must-read (go do it now) essay "The empty brain: Your brain does…
How To Be Poor — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
Neal Gabler's confession in the May Atlantic about his inability to gather $400 in an emergency is riveting reading. The article details the wreckage of one bad decision after another.…