Sunday, August 14, 2016

Shorter commutes by living in the suburbs

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From The Shorter Commutes in American Suburbs and Exurbs by Wendell Cox. An examination of American Community Survey (ACS) data in the majo...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

I sought my brother, And I found all three.

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Listening to an interview of Gregory Allan Williams on NPR the other day. He is not an actor of whom I have been aware but he sounded a ple...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

Europe is sort of like derpfish.

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Sarah A. Hoyt is a science fiction/fantasy author, originally from Portugal, now an American. She is also one of those authors who helped p...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

De gustibus non est disputandum

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De gustibus non est disputandum from Wikipedia: De gustibus non est disputandum, or de gustibus non disputandum est, is a Latin maxim mean...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Lots of things are going to stand in your way. Don’t make up additional stupid new ones to hold you back.

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I came across the articles criticizing it before I came across the article itself. The originating article is Science fiction publishing h...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

For some sort of tribal reason the hard left really hates the musical “Hamilton”.

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I came across this essay ( You Should be Terrified That People Who Like "Hamilton" Run Our Country by Alex Nichols) courtesy of Sc...

Curiosity and Expectations

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An interesting article on an area of research I have been thinking about lately. From Science Curiosity and Political Information Processin...
Monday, August 8, 2016

New study finds that men are often their own favorite experts on any given subject - Pure, unadulterated tosh

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Oh dear, what an execrable article based on execrable research. It would appear to be yet another example of the progressive clerisy tellin...

Theory, practice and contradictions

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From Does Pretrial Detention Reduce or Increase Crime? by Alex Tabarrok. Research across domains of knowledge, in this case economic theory...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Raw population and disparate impact example based on college degrees

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These numbers explain a lot more than they might appear to do at first glance. US: Young adults with 4 year college degree Asians 63% Whit...