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Easter Egg Hunt
Hidden in this post is an Easter Egg. Easter it is, of course; and so the egg's theme is appropriate for this day. It's not the most cleverly designed puzzle.…
Top 10 Manly Jobs: Popular Mechanics’ Cool Gigs List
Popular Mechanics published a list of four dozen or so "Coolest Gigs on Earth." They ought to have said "manliest." This isn't The Atlantic or Time. This is Popular Mechanics!…
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Gladwell, Gottman, and Abraham on Predicting Divorce
Despite the best efforts of their wives, some married men remain recalcitrant and uncooperative. They refuse to or are incapable of taking their training seriously. Some of these men, who…
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Obamacare & Climate Change: Temperature, Health Targets
There it was, hidden on page 1,323 of the 2,700-page health care bill: a proposal to define the ideal climate for the Continental United States and Alaska. For no reason…
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“Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change” Lovelock
James Lovelock knows of what he speaks: personal experience allows him to say that a lot of humans aren't that bright. But Lovelock forgets that while there are many---half!---who are…
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What Do Philosophers Believe? Survey: Part II
Read Part I. Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? 43% went with externalism, about 26% with internalism. It is impossible to write about this without sounding goofy or repetitive. Briefly, internalism…
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What Do Philosophers Believe? Survey: Part I
What are the answers to The Big Questions? A survey was taken to discover what professional philosophers thought. We'll have fun going through the questions and answers. The results are,…
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Amish Romance Meets Teen Vampire Fiction
In a Books-A-Million in Lakeland, Florida I happened down an entire row, yards and yards long, of Amish Romances, a genre I had heard of but scarcely believed existed. Each…
