Posted inStatistics
Daily Links & Comments
@1 False widow spiders on the march! Under orders from global warming. Link @2 Washington Post's astonishing database of non-profit shenanigans. The big secret is millions go missing from NGOs:…
Posted inStatistics
Daily Links & Comments
@1 The Loss of the Permanent Things in Higher Education: trivial, multicultural, relativistic, sexual and politically correct studies supplant what had been a focus on Western civilization. Link @2 November…
We Do Not Discriminate On The Basis Of…Contest! Winner Declared!
Yours Truly is always on the lookout for teaching jobs, since that is his passion and where his skills lie, and so is well familiar with the application process at…
Posted inFun Philosophy
#ICanChangeThePast2, Or, Tweeting Time Travel
You're a time traveler stuck in July 2012. How depressing. You have time on your hands. Time to kill, that is. How to pass the time? Twitter, naturally. Great time…
Wave Of Apoplexy About To Be Unleashed
Dear reader, it is your duty to memorize these signs of stroke. Use the helpful FAST mnemonic. F = Face: ask the victim to smile; does one side of her…
Posted inCulture
On The College Bubble—Update
Must-reading from the Wall Street Journal. Richard Vedder: "The Real Reason College Costs So Much. The expert on the economics of higher education explains how subsidies fuel rising prices and…
Posted inFun Philosophy
Thomas Aquinas & Philosophical Realism
Dozens of big brains, and one fat head held aloft by Yours Truly, crammed into a small room yesterday to hear all there was to know, more or less, about…
Posted inPhilosophy
Are We Hard-Wired for Faith? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a "retired, cranky, old physicist." This article originally ran in modified form at Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart…
