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Trigger Warnings And The Feminismization Of America
Update New & Improved title! I think it was Clint Eastwood who, as Dirty Harry, gave the world's most famous trigger warning: I know what you're thinking: "Did he fire…
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It’s Time For A New (Old) Kind Of University: Update
Consider these news items: "At Western Michigan University, it is considered harassment to hold a 'condescending sex-based attitude.'...Tufts University in Boston proscribes the holding of 'sexist attitudes,'... At Northeastern University,…
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WMBriggs.com Now A Violence Site
A reader at The Robert Gordon University in Scotland tried to access my site from campus and received this message. Now, presuming this is not a mistake, I am very…
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The Moral Case Against Designer Babies
"Should prospective parents seek information about gene variants that increase the risk their children will develop diseases as adults? Should physicians provide that information?" So asks Ronald Bailey, only just…
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From Latin & Greek To Remedial English
From Twitter's @LeMarquand came this picture: An overstatement, sure. Not every high school went in for amo, amas, amat or saw students parsing snatches of The Odyssey in the original.…
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Update On The On-line Probability & Statistics Course. Comments Wanted
It's been a while, but I think I've finally figured out how to make an on-line class work. Details about this will be forthcoming, but for now I wanted to…
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Call For American Studies Association To Expand Boycott To United States
Members of that well known ethics group the American Studies Association met and decided that the principle of social justice (or something) demanded they boycott Israel. So they did. Not…
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HANDY Not So Dandy: NASA-Funded Mathematical Model Of Doom
Mathematically minded Remember back in the 1990s when otherwise intelligent people would look to the scientific literature and say, "Those guys must be right. They used a computer model." A…
