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Two Reasons to Distrust the Powers That Be
ONE: Irina Sendler TWO: George ♥s Michelle It’s like they’re all just in it for themselves, and screw the little guy. A$$holes. Read more
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Calculus as a Microagression
Yesterday I was cautioned by the recounting of an event that occurred in our College of Business. It seems that a lecturer was explaining a concept that required either averaging or the area under a curve, and resorted to writing an integral on the board, by way of illustration. This was NOT a demonstration of Read more
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Intellectual Yet Idiot*
Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry. Nicholas Taleb off on a delicious rant. Tip from Gary Jones, who did make the smallest peep of a comment (so I know he likes it). *I’m more of an intellectu’all. And I DO deadlift. Read more
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Meet Godfrey Thomson
with mastery, won in most cases before thirty, comes leisure which can be truly enjoyed, not leisure stolen from duty. Dr James Thompson (no relation) gives us a short professional biography of a pioneering educational psychologist. More biography here and here. Read more
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Take a hike!
Good for your body, good for your brain. Tip from Twisted Sifter, in the latest Shirk Report. Read more
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Are you a turtle?* Is this a fluke?
Just when you think science can’t get any more weird, we get something like this A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of Read more
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Man Invents Fire, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
No, really. I suppose men standing around the barbecue burning meat and drinking beer is just another ritual of the Patriarchy. Mark Twain was hip to this sort of thinking over a century ago: In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That Read more
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The Examined Life is Worth Living
Scurrilous Commentator Fred Reed demonstrates how a grown-up examines his prejudices on the way to wisdom Most Latinos of the south are either a mixture of Spanish and Indian, or sometimes pure Indian….Are they, as nativists insist, of very low IQ–83–and have they enstupidated the Spanish? Horrendously primitive? Without thinking about it, I had the entrenched Read more
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Rudolf Bauer, Who Knew?
Before Klee, before Kandinsky, there was Rudolf Bauer, whose story is told here. Two-cushion bank shop tip from Sarah Hoyt (at Instapundit), who put me hip to Killer Nashvile. Read more
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