Saturday, December 5, 2015

Increasingly it seem that there is nothing straight-forward under the sun

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Cowen remarks in Best movies of 2015 by Tyler Cowen that I thought this was the worst year for movies since I have been watching them. In...

The Pigeonhole Principle

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A frigid Saturday morning, linking around the internet, catching up on stored articles set aside during a busy week. Hit on an article on a...
Friday, December 4, 2015

Climate change summary

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From What Should We Do About Climate Change? by David Siegel. A reasonable summary of the global climate change argument and the weaknesses...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Measurement forces us to confront decisions we don't wish to make.

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From The effects of the medical marijuana market on substance abuse by Tyler Cowen. The argument is about the possible consequences of dr...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

I don't think that meme means what you think that meme means

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John Althouse Cohen comments on this picture which has been making the rounds. #Perspective #YoureAnImmigrantToo Posted by Lastrealindia...

We are Olympic champions in the Jumping to Conclusions contest

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The only thing anybody on Twitter knows for sure right now about the San Bernardino shootings is that the people they hate are responsible. ...

It does not bode well

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Given the preponderance of Islamic inspired terrorism in recent years, there has been, in some quarters, a perhaps well-intended effort to i...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

TULIP

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From an article comparing the fanatical extremism on campus to the extremes of Calvinism. The author points out TULIP from the Five Points ...

A woman dives into the confusing vacuum created by an unanswered text

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Another example of Poe's Law at work. The article is The Five Stages of Ghosting Grief: A woman dives into the confusing vacuum created ...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Internet usage by time of day, across the world

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Very cool. Map of internet usage varying with time of day pic.twitter.com/GwwA3fgxj5 — SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) November 29, 2015