Author: Glen

I am most grat­i­fied by this deci­sion and hope that it rip­ples out to oth­er uni­ver­si­ties.

Chris­tian­i­ty Today Live­blog: Inter­Var­si­ty Re-Instat­ed As New York Uni­ver­si­ty Decides Lead­er­ship Pol­i­cy Is “Com­mon Sense, Not Dis­crim­i­na­tion”

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

This is genius. Wow.

Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tyler Cowen’s Unusu­al Final Exam

Tyler [Cowen] once walked into class the day of the final exam and he said. “Here is the exam. Write your own ques­tions. Write your own answers. Hard­er ques­tions and bet­ter answers get more points.” T…

I usu­al­ly don’t like sports sto­ries, but this was remark­ably com­pelling.

http://pocket.co/sQbN2

Fas­ci­nat­ing tid­bit. Does read­ing this increase your ten­den­cy towards egal­i­tar­i­an­ism or com­ple­men­tar­i­an­ism? And how does it make you think about author­i­ty and coer­cion?

More data on sur­vival dur­ing mar­itime dis­as­ters

From Mikael Elin­der and Oscar Erix­son (pdf, final PNAS gat­ed ver­sion here): It’s a wide­spread notion that women and chil­dren are saved first in mar­itime dis­as­ters. The sys­tem­at­ic evi­dence of this come…

How inter­est­ing.

Crime in Europe and the U.S.

Has there been a “reversal of for­tune”? Pao­lo Buo­nan­no, Francesco Dra­go, Rober­to Gal­biati, and Giulio Zanel­la step into these treach­er­ous waters with a new paper (pdf): Con­trary to com­mon per­cep­tions…

I hate jour­nal­ing, but I’ve seen find­ings like this so fre­quent­ly that I might have to give it a try.

The most proven tech­nique for increas­ing long term hap­pi­ness: — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Bark­ing up the wrong tree. I want to under­stand why we do what we do and use the answers to be awe­some at life. About. Eric Bark­er; First vis­it? Start here. Bakadesuyo.com is proud to be list­ed on blo…

This is one of the best rebut­tals to a con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry that I’ve ever seen.

Mon­day Morn­ing Humor

Three days ago in the sum­mer of 1969, Apol­lo 11 became the first manned mis­sion to land on the moon. One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. Of course, it makes per­fect sense that the whol…

Lolo wound up plac­ing 4th. I wish she had won a medal. 

Lolo Jones can’t be sexy, Chris­t­ian and a hur­dler » GetRe­li­gion

Some read­ers sent in a recent piece from Salon, which (for those who stopped read­ing it back in the 1990s) bills itself as “the lead­ing pro­gres­sive news site, com­bin­ing award-win­ning com­men­tary and re…

Wow.

Freako­nom­ics » Speak­ing Ill of the Dead Appar­ent­ly Okay if the Dead Worked for Chick-fil‑A

Sysco is the lat­est food giant—it’s the largest food dis­trib­u­tor in the country—to come out against ges­ta­tion crate con­fine­ment of pigs. The Nation­al Pork Pro­duc­ers Coun­cil’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor w…

The bit about amne­sia made me laugh out loud. Wow.

Do sleep­ing pills like Ambi­en work because of the place­bo effect? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Join 25K+ sub­scribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Sleep­ing pills on aver­age only make peo­ple fall asleep 12 min­utes faster and sleep 11 min­utes longer dur­ing the night. The place­bo effect m…