Truth.
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I’ve got nothing against Apple, It’s its fan club I can’t stand.
Month: October 2012
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Mampires. Heh.
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…
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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…
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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.
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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
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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…
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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,.…..
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This is pretty cool. I never thought about it before — I guess I assumed they cut different trees in different ways.
Billion, by artist Vincent Kohler, shows the different pieces of wood derived from a log. It reminds me of the iconic butchery map
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Huh.
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…
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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?
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…