Month: October 2012

Truth.

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I’ve got noth­ing against Apple, It’s its fan club I can’t stand.

Mam­pires. Heh.

Why Milk?

Through­out evo­lu­tion­ary his­to­ry, most adult homo sapi­ens could not drink milk. Even today, most adults can­not drink milk. Adults who can­not drink milk don’t seem to lose very much, par­tic­u­lar­ly as the…

This seems basi­cal­ly cor­rect to me.

What are the four things that kill rela­tion­ships?

John Gottman can lis­ten to a cou­ple for 5 min­utes and deter­mine, with 91% accu­ra­cy, whether they’ll divorce. He was fea­tured in Mal­colm Glad­well’s book Blink. Gottman’s researched mar­riage for over 40…

I real­ly like Ross Douthat. He says the things I think, but he says them very artic­u­late­ly and from a promi­nent plat­form.

The Press and Abor­tion, Revis­it­ed

Richard Mour­dock and the medi­a’s blind­ers on abor­tion.

I love kids.

Why do kids cov­er their eyes when they’re hid­ing?

Chil­dren often close or cov­er their eyes to hide, and researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge want­ed to find out why. Click thr

What a stun­ning exam­ple of media bias. As far as I can tell, it is com­plete­ly uncon­scious. I believe the first way to frame the sto­ry nev­er even crossed the mind of the reporter or the edi­tor.

MSM’s upside-down Chick-fil‑A sand­wich

Chick-fil‑A has some­thing not all that sur­pris­ing to crow about. Con­sumer use, vis­its and ad aware­ness were all up mea­sur­ably in the third quar­ter, at a time the chick­en chain enjoyed a remark­able out…

This is a help­ful insight.

Chil­dren & Dogs: More on Mark 7:24–30

One fur­ther obser­va­tion about the lit­tle scene between Jesus and the Syro-Phoeni­cian woman in Mark 7:24–30 is that the ini­tial response ascribed to Jesus is not a deroga­to­ry ref­er­ence to the woman,.…..

This is pret­ty cool. I nev­er thought about it before — I guess I assumed they cut dif­fer­ent trees in dif­fer­ent ways.

Cuts of wood

Bil­lion, by artist Vin­cent Kohler, shows the dif­fer­ent pieces of wood derived from a log. It reminds me of the icon­ic butch­ery map

Huh.

Pub­lish­ing pays in eco­nom­ics

Here is a new paper by Suzanne O’Keefe and Ta-Chen Wang: We study salaries of eco­nom­ics fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia to deter­mine how pub­li­ca­tions affect salary. We find that each pub­li­cati…

This is an inter­est­ing revi­sion to some research that got trac­tion a while ago, but I’m not sure what the authors think their new data pos­i­tive­ly sug­gests. They say Brooks was wrong, but it does seem clear that some group does give more than some oth­er group. Who do they think this group is?

Who Real­ly Gives? Par­ti­san­ship and Char­i­ta­ble Giv­ing in the Unit­ed States — The Mon­key CagePrince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty Press

Michele Mar­go­lis and Michael Sances write: Con­ser­v­a­tives and lib­er­als are equal­ly gen­er­ous in their dona­tion habits. This pat­tern holds at both the indi­vid­ual and state lev­el, and con­tra­dicts the conv…