Does watching TV cause autism?

I have no idea, but two gentlemen from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell and one from the Economics department at Purdue seem to think so. They have written…
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Do not try the WPAU plugin

I had a hell of a scare when I tried the WPAU plugin. It is the Word Press Automatic Update software, maintained here. This blog runs on Wordpress, served by…
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On Bias

UPDATE: some statistics on this from Investor's Business Daily. What would you think if you were reading a new research result, written by people who all had advanced academic degrees…
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A Rhetorical Question

A tip of the hat to Dennis Dutton's Arts and Letters Daily where this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education appeared. Incidentally, since the Chronicle bought out A&LD, there…
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More Art

The New Museum is hosting an exhibition entitled "After Nature" whose tagline is "THE earth will pass away with a great noise and there will be no place for it."…
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Shifting Baselines Syndrome

If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a "miscreant" and on par with those who deny that "smoking causes cancer." She also…