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London Murders Open Thread: Updates
Except to note that our Summa Contra Gentiles series is preempted this week, I'll stay out of this. I'd hate to be accused of being mean to throat cutters. What…
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Diversity Is Our Weakness: University Edition Part CDXVII
Here then is the sad but common tale of Alex Southwell, a nom de plume, professor at "Hudson University" (Columbia?). The De-Professionalization of the Academy, from Quillette magazine. Excerpts only.…
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Monsieur le Président Trump: Adieu à Paris!
Stream: Monsieur le Président Trump: Adieu à Paris! So long, fair well, auf weidersehen, goodbye. A typical reaction, this from guy named Matt Stoller, a Fellow at the Open Markets…
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Covfefe Sing-A-Long
Sung to Shaving Cream. Covfefe = cov-fee-fee. The night Donald Trump took to Twitter Elites had a terrible fit Trump warned the world of covfefe And Tweet streams were filled…
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Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I
Pictured above is an abacus. As it looks, it is in the configuration for the number 68,170,000. It has other configurations which represent other numbers. This particular abacus is small,…
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Most Academic Papers Of Little Or No Value—And Many Are Toxic
https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/862393511622184960 Here are some interesting numbers. Citation counts are our primary measure of a paper's scholarly impact, and yet citation counts on average are distressingly low. By one count, 12…
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Uncertainty’s A Hit!
It hasn't been a year, but Springer issued its annual report, and, in my eyes anyway, Uncertainty is a hit! From 30 June 2016 through the first two weeks of…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Souls Begin At Conception Part III
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Review is…