Sunday, August 9, 2015

It's hard not to write satire

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Reading the headlines, I am reminded of a line from Juvenal. Juvenal, Satires, No. 1, Line 30. Difficile est saturam non scribere It...

Think before you speak

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Children's literature is rich in wisdom and the works of Lewis Carroll are especially strewn with nuggets. Lewis Carroll subtley intr...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

The English culture of location names

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Many years ago, living in England, I came across a charming and humorous book that even then was old, How To Be An Alien by George Mikes . ...

It's Not Even in The Top 100 Worst Psych Theories of the 1960s - True That

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Cognitive pollution - ideas which are so attractive that we want them to be true when they are not. Also known as Normative Sociology. Ea...
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This makes it hard to find a new novel, sometimes

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I make the effort to read fiction but it remains a trivial portion of my reading diet. Too much contemporary literary fiction appears to me...
Friday, August 7, 2015

The sea has swallowed men who have spoken a thousand different languages

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From A Sailor's Pay by Jack Cady in the anthology, Sea-Cursed , edited by T. Liam McDonald. I like this combination of the speaking in...

Root causes of demographic inversions

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Hmmm. Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point by William Easterly The abstract is: The Schelling mod...

The cognitive biases you carry are independent of your intelligence and of one another.

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From Scott Alexander . Individual Differences In Cognitive Biases – Evidence Against The One-Factor Theory Of Rationality . Unlike IQ where...

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From Genes influence academic ability across all subjects, latest study shows by Hannah Devlin. Devlin is reporting on two separate issues....
Thursday, August 6, 2015

98% of Japan’s 81,000 adoptees are males between the ages of 25 and 30

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It started with this tweet. Japan houses more than half of the world's 1,000 oldest businesses: http://t.co/GK18VfGkA4 pic.twitter.c...