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People Growing Dumber Or Research Growing Slacker?
If there was ever a paper which was in danger of refuting itself by its title, this is it. "Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence…
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What’s The Official Name For Governance By Thuggery?
To summarize what we know, but only in brief and leaving out many smaller scandals: The White House lied about the cause of Benghazi. They knowingly, willingly, and falsely claimed…
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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part Final: Parameters!
(All the stuff in this series is, in a fuller form, in my new upcoming book, which is tentatively called Logical Probability and Statistics---but I've only changed the title 342…
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Subjective Versus Objective Bayes (Versus Frequentism): Part IV
Read Part III Just review and clarification this time, folks. Dirty hard work. But necessary given the confusion from last post. Time to pump some neurons! Next time we---finally!---get to…
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Prime Minister Kenny’s Abortion Bill Would Save One Life A Year, Take Others
Ireland's Prime Minister Enda---that's Enda, not Edna, the creature---Kenny is being snubbed by Cardinal Sean O'Malley. Reason? Kenny is being "honored" by Barely Catholic---a.k.a. BC, a.k.a. Boston College---because Kenny is…
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Damn Straight News: Manly Men More Likely To Be Conservative
As will come as absolutely no surprise to regular readers, but will be a traumatic revelation to the public at large, it has finally been acknowledged in the peer-reviewed literature…
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Coal-Fired Power Plants Fuel Suicide—Or Maybe Sanguinity
Smokestack Seppuku Whatever you do, don't look at that smokestack! Do, and next thing you know you'll be drawing a knife across your throat. Suicide! Or so says the press…
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Angelina Jolie’s Decisions Shouldn’t Necessarily Be Yours
Men ordinarily don't like writing about women's breasts, but I had so many emails asking me why Angelina Jolie decided to part with hers that I felt we had better…