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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 the difference between mathematical ability between boys and girls
Today's headlines mostly got it wrong: The New York Sun said "Study Shatters Myth That Boys Are Better At Math." The New York Post said "Girls = boys in math…
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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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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…
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Red State Update
If you haven't seen Jackie and Dunlap before, you've been missing out. Here's there take on the New Yorker's terrorist Obamas cover. Hilarious. They have an album coming out. The…
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What’s Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)
The headline comes from this article at NASA, sent in by reader "Mike D." The gist of the article is "that there's nothing to report." Says David Hathaway: "There have…