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The Most Depressing Places On Earth
This post originally ran 30 January 2013. When my number one son was young he saw a TV show in which a group of people were scurrying about in an…
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Spring Break At The Blog!
Due to my Florida sojourn, I am behind on all my work. Thus I shall be taking the coming week off at the blog. Reposts from the early years will…
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What Would Mark Twain Say About Gun Safety?
Spring Training at the Blog. This post originally appeared in January of 2008. Domonic Gaines, the brute, held the gun to the baby's head and...snapshot! As in photograph: somebody filmed…
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Everything You Know Is Wrong — Book Excerpt! There Is No Wisdom In Crowds
The most controversial book of the year is still on its way! I found two other publishers willing to give it a look, and they're reviewing it now. If they…
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Peer Review Explained In Brilliant Video
https://twitter.com/GenieOfGenes/status/1233047369303851009 I beg you will watch this at least twice. The "And if they want to publish they have to pay a shitload of money for it" refers to page…
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Name Four Novels That Helped Shape You
The tile of the post is from Twitter's Theophilus Chilton, who started a tag game saying "Name 4 fictional novels that helped to shape you, then tag 4 other people…
How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?
A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they…
Register Your Predictions for 2020!
As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year tomorrow. Rules: Everybody…