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#UniteTheClans Dammit
Michael Matt at The Remnant says it's time to Unite The Clans. Fr Z agrees. I say it's past time. Z says: What he is asking for is that Catholics…
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The Week In Doom — Perverts Among Us Edition
Item Illinois Governor Mandates LGBT History for All Public Schools Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a bill into law on Friday that mandates all public schools in the state…
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Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update
Eat Soy, Save The Planet. Save the planet from what and for whom we are never told. A climate with a slight increase in global mean temperature can't destroy the…
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The Week In Doom — Killing Ourselves Randomly Edition
Item https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1159395745444900864 Two demonic individuals ("'Their screams music, their pain my pleasure.' Dayton shooter's demonic notebook scrawls reveal he fantasized about massacres, 'hunting' for humans, craved marijuana and speed, called…
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When Does A Small Probability Mean Impossibility?
Question from reader Richard Stevens: A professional scientist, holding an MS in one of the hard sciences, addressed the argument that the probability of creating a protein or an enzyme…
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If Nothing Is Something, A Universe Can Come From Nothing
Somebody asked a Ph.D. astrophysicist, author, and science communicator over at Forbes "Can We Really Get A Universe From Nothing?" The biggest question that we're even capable of asking, with…
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How Can Any Religion Have A Monopoly On Truth?
Soak this up (emphasis original): By the time she turned up in New York, [Justina Walford's] faith had long since unraveled, a casualty of overseas travel that made her question…
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The Conceit of AI
It helps every time you hear "AI" to think "statistical model". Because, of course, that's what AI is. Statistical models layered with clever data processing, that is. Curve fitting. Saying…