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Angry Ovulating Women, Women Angry At Ovulation
Well, here's the headline: "How women can tell when other females are ovulating using clues in their face - and how they may then try to hide their partners from…
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On Coincidence And Fortune: Why So Many One-Eyed Generals?
Plutarch opens his Life of Sertorius with these two sentences: It is perhaps not a matter of surprise, if in the lapse of time, which is unlimited, while fortune is…
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Stream: Dice Games Prove Evolution Because Humans Believed In Punitive Gods?
Today's post is at the Stream: Dice Games Prove Evolution Because Humans Believed In Punitive Gods? Answer this question: could you, by counting the number of coins some guy puts…
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What Happens If You Take Away Women’s Birth Control?
The titular question is in earnest, dear reader, just as it was for Amanda J. Stevenson and four others. Yes, those fine academics were just as perplexed as you probably…
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Science Confirms Astrology! Plus, Machine Learning, Big Data, And Causes
Health signs The alternate title to today's post, suggested by reader Kip Hansen, is "Data scientists find connections between birth month and health". Don't scoff. We're talking peer review and…
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Gravitational Waves And Discovering Cause
You'll have heard by now that the existence of gravitational waves have been "confirmed." The scare quotes are intentional, but not in the sense that I (necessarily) disbelieve in the…
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Regression Can’t Prove Discrimination
Anybody out there a lawyer, or do you know one, who is involved on the side of angels in these so-called discrimination lawsuits? Have them contact me. The argument that…
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Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability
Via Ed Feser I was led back to Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, which has a lot about probability. I'll not do much of…