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 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 […]
Red State Update
If you haven’t seen Jackie and Dunlap before, you’ve been missing out. Here’s there take on the New Yorker’s terrorist Obamas cover. Hilarious. They have an album coming out. The song “Too […]
Lizards all male climate change club
Nature magazine reports this headline: Condemned to single-sex life by climate change. They are talking about a species of lizards called tuatara that live “on about 30 small islands in New Zealand?s […]
I wish I was making this up
Another piece of data is in that shows money does not correlate with intelligence. “Artist” Martin Creed (pictured above) created a “work” called 850, which he will exhibit at the well-known Tate […]
Ithaca update: hours and dogs as presidential candidates
The Ithaca Hours, mentioned in the previous post, quantify a barter system, trading “hours worked” at one task for equivalent “hours worked” at another. For example, you might trade one “hour” of […]
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