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I’m No Longer At Cornell
I got fired about a month ago. This would ordinarily fall under the categories, "About time" or "So?", and thus it is not worth mentioning. Except for this. I had…
Posted inPhilosophy
Gorilla Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDC5wswGnaA I do not understand the human race. It has so little love for creatures with a different face. Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace. I do…
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Reader Challenge: Find College WITHOUT Diversity Program
Are there any (nonprofit) colleges or universities without programs, offices, or administrators for Diversity? In the United States, I mean, or, secondarily, anywhere in the West. Type "Diversity" in Harvard's…
Posted inCulture
Plato, Bloom & Wan Baochang On The Destructive Power Of Bad Music
Wan Baochang (whom I learned of from Richard Spacek) lived some 1,500 years ago. According to the The Taoism Reader, Wan had a spiritual revelation in which he was told…
Posted inBook review Statistics
A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability
Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in…
Posted inCulture
Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics
Tell you right up front that the only way to be sure of solving the crisis in higher education is to nuke universities from orbit and then salt the grounds…
Posted inStatistics
On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI
So this 44-year-old Frenchman---let's call him Jacques---presented for a "mild left leg weakness". The leg bone being connected to the hip bone, etc., it was eventually discovered that Jacques's "skull…
Posted inCulture
The True History Of College Sports Under Title IX
Here is the true history of college sports under the Federal Title IX mandate. Some events have not yet come to pass. In 1972, the Most Beneficent Government of the…