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On Charity — Guest Post by Uncle Mike
Two or three times a week I leave my retirement farm and drive my truck into town to one of the six (count 'em six) coffee kiosks in our pipsqueak…
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Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition
No video this week. Weep and despair! Item Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher A University of California, Berkeley professor suggested scrapping end-of-semester…
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Who’s Up For A Meal And Some Corpse Dissection?
Headline Diners offered two-course meal topped off by DISSECTION of a 'human corpse' A group of dissectors have found a unique way of getting one's "insides out" as they are…
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What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming
One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…
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Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!
The paper is "Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians" by Min Qi Wang, Alice F. Yan, and Ralph V. Katz in Annals of…
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis
Query: now that I'm a video master, would people like videos of these lessons? I don't see how they'd help much, but who knows. Let me know below or via…
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Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran
Some Jews asked Christians to stamp the following warning on all Bibles: Warning: Jews Have Rejected Their Messiah. And they asked Muslims to insert this bookplate into every Koran: Muhammad…
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This Week In Doom — Cartoon Pr0n Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9GaUea-Pk Still exploring video, and neglecting script. This one doesn't quite reach amateurish level. Getting there, though. Item 20 Dirty Jokes That Were Secretly Hidden in the Kids' Cartoons of…