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July 4th: It’s Summer And It’s Hot
[To be sung to the obvious tune] I have a sad story to tell you It might upset you a bit Last night I walked on the sidewalk And it…
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Teaching Journal: Day 0
This begins my two week tarriance at Cornell, teaching ILR-ST somenumberorother, a course in the Masters of Professional Studies, which is not unlike, though not entirely the same as, an…
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Personality Predicted By Pedal Extremity Wrappings?
Fats Waller knew which end was up. The mark of mate-ability, he infallibly sang, was to be had by looking down. Shakespeare agreed: he wrote, "Farewell Love and all thy…
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In Praise Of Narrow Minds
SourceJonah Goldberg, in his The Tyranny of Clichés relates how Andrew Sullivan quoted approvingly a story from an old book whose moral was that one should not believe morals of…
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Bernie Madoff To Join Peter Gleick’s Pacific Institute: Work-Release Program
Perhaps we should file this under Nobody Saw This Coming. Here is a (second) press release issued in the dead of night from the Pacific Institute. Tip o' the hat…
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Barcode People From Birth — Guest Post By Faith Reader
Despotism and tyranny wear many cloaks. Modern Western leaders are above using raw, brute power to fulfill their desires. Instead, they wheedle and whine and the public gives in, worn…
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How To Present Anything As Significant. Update: Nature Weighs In
Update The paper on which this post was based has hit the presses which was used as an occasion for Nature to opine that, just maybe, that some of the…
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The Probability Of Nonsense In Science: Complexity & Verification
This is a work in progress, and today is a busy day. This is just for fun and for you to play with. The more complex the field of study,…