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A New Kind Of University: An Open Discussion

We agree that the university system is "broken." The reasons why are obvious: ideology and money have so corroded the foundations that a collapse is imminent. These facts naturally lead…

Culture

The Violent Rule America’s Campuses: Middlebury College, Berkeley Update

The original story begins below, which ran on 14 February 2017. Events since then have confirmed the original conclusions. Middlebury Update Violent students at Middlebury College attacked and badly wounded…

Culture

Most Academic Papers Of Little Or No Value—And Many Are Toxic

https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/862393511622184960 Here are some interesting numbers. Citation counts are our primary measure of a paper's scholarly impact, and yet citation counts on average are distressingly low. By one count, 12…

Statistics

Uncertainty’s A Hit!

It hasn't been a year, but Springer issued its annual report, and, in my eyes anyway, Uncertainty is a hit! From 30 June 2016 through the first two weeks of…

Statistics

Celebrating 4th of July Makes You Republican: Harvard Profs Say So

This post originally ran 1 July 2011. The authors never responded to my offer. Democrats! I beseech thee! Do not let thy children fly the flag on the Glorious Fourth!…

Fun

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…

Culture

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…

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Uncertainty Interviewed By Brett Stevens at Amerika

Scoot on over to Amerika, where there is an interview with Yours Truly, focused on the philosophy of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics. Excerpt: You also write…

dumbest.ox on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
President Carter had the federal rules changed to reclassify normal pregnancy / birth, as illness / disease, in order to…
spetzer86 on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
I'm thinking glasses wouldn't help given that the act is usually done in close proximity and in the dark. Even…
Cary Cotterman on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
Sperm is a pathogen Pregnancy is not normal Pregnancy is a disease Our young people are being taught by lunatics.
Brian (bulaoren) on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
Wait...What?... If pregnancy is a pathology, should the sex act be done only in moderation; "Just till we need glasses?"…
Uncle Mike on Academics Call Pregnancy A DiseaseMay 12, 2025
More academic diseases: breathing, eating, talking, motherhood, fatherhood, farming, mining, forestry, self-defense, private property, peace, justice, truth, beauty ... Happy…