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Quantum Potency & Probability
A note on a complex subject. Ed Feser points us to the paper "An Aristotelian Approach to Quantum Mechanics" by Gil Sanders, and in turn Sanders points us to "Taking…
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Thou Shalt Not Seek The Wee P
Because some readers may think the crusade against the wee p is mine alone, sinner that I am, or that I somehow represent an obscure shady suspect intellectually insufficient movement,…
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Chemical Castration As Conception Prevention
Men, how would you like to inject yourself regularly in the pertinents so that your testosterone levels plunge to levels as if you were castrated? Don't answer yet! There are…
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Divided We Are Soon Conquered — Guest Post by Ianto Watts
Time for some history. History freed from the vision of the version written by the winners. That is, the Revolutionaries. My version is brought to you by the vanquished. The…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXVII
Item Homeschooling Parents Would Rather 'Go to Jail' Than Send Daughter to State School The parents of a homeschooled child have said they would be willing to go to prison…
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(Hot) Air Let Out of California’s Global Warming Lawsuit
The California court climate class ordered by a judge has ended---with everybody agreeing the climate has changed. This is good news. It means anybody who calls an oil company representative…
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Uncertainty: The Soul of Models, Probability & Statistics. Chapter Abstracts
This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we're 1.5 years out, it's time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again…
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Courting Climate Comedy
The descent of climate science into the surreal is about to take another comedic slide. A judge has ordered the State of California and a handful of oil companies to…