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The Best College (For Most) Is No College
Most people do not use, and do not need to use, any form of mathematics higher than addition and subtraction, and in rarer cases in multiplying and dividing simple numbers.…
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That Study Claiming Religious Kids Are Less Altruistic That I Said Stinks Was Retracted
Long-time readers will recall the original criticisms of the paper "The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children's Altruism across the World" by Jean Decety, Jason M. Cowell, Kang Lee, Susan…
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Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update
Eat Soy, Save The Planet. Save the planet from what and for whom we are never told. A climate with a slight increase in global mean temperature can't destroy the…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Events And Higher Causes
Previous post. There just is no avoiding God's control---of everything. In what sense that means, read on! HOW HUMAN EVENTS MAY BE TRACED BACK TO HIGHER CAUSES 1 From the…
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The Week In Doom — Killing Ourselves Randomly Edition
Item https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1159395745444900864 Two demonic individuals ("'Their screams music, their pain my pleasure.' Dayton shooter's demonic notebook scrawls reveal he fantasized about massacres, 'hunting' for humans, craved marijuana and speed, called…
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Pipe Down — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
BREAKING NEWS FROM ALL MSM's: TRUMP LASHES OUT AGAINST EVERYONE! MEDIA ALLEGATIONS OF UNIVERSAL RACISM MUST BE TRUE, BECAUSE THE MEDIA HAVE SAID IT. ERGO, TRUMP IS THE UNIVERSAL RACIST.…
Posted inClass Statistics
When Does A Small Probability Mean Impossibility?
Question from reader Richard Stevens: A professional scientist, holding an MS in one of the hard sciences, addressed the argument that the probability of creating a protein or an enzyme…
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O’Brian On Democracy — “Pernicious Nonsense” Etc.
If some literature student (in a non-Western ideology-soaked department) is looking for thesis material, Patrick O'Brian on the evils of democracy is it. Here, only one snippet, from The Yellow…
