Thursday, December 24, 2020

History

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2 #Roman -period Egyptian mummy portraits, from the Fayum in Egypt, dated to the early/mid C2nd AD. They are beautiful depictions of 2 real ...

An Insight

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Social psychology has three primary types of findings 1) Novel and surprising that don't replicate, 2) Novel and surprising but meaningl...

I see wonderful things

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Good boy.. 💨😅 pic.twitter.com/XDkpw9qxZ9 — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 29, 2020  

Offbeat Humor

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Just a parrot at the vets pleased about his recovery pic.twitter.com/tnknOkbrla — Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) December 5, 2020  

Data Talks

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Like money does. Today’s Dems are the party of the rich. GOP is and should be the party of the working class. https://t.co/WMTDtKTzwU — Ted ...

Minerva or Pallas Athena, 1898 by Gustav Klimt

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Minerva or Pallas Athena, 1898 by Gustav Klimt Click to enlarge.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

No one so blind as those who choose not to see

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From California Has Lost Control by Whet Moser in The Atlantic .   My refrain from the beginning of Covid has been that we don't what i...

However, around 10 per cent of the papers were retracted, implying something more nefarious was going on.

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From  Science Fictions  by Stuart Ritchie.  Page 60.  The stories of Hwang and Obokata are both unusual in one obvious respect: the extraord...

History

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There is something truly amazing about this footage. Taken in 1919 from a French airship, it shows the shattered remains of Ypres which had ...

An Insight

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Opposition to standardized tests seems very similar to "algorithm aversion" to me A preference for subjective human selection, eve...