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This reminds me of some arti­cles I read back in school about epis­te­mol­o­gy. The mouseover text on this one is par­tic­u­lar­ly illu­mi­nat­ing.

xkcd: Debug­ger

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This sto­ry made me chor­tle —  Judge: “You took the Lord’s mon­ey.… ‘Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord,’ but every now and then I think the judi­cial sys­tem has to con­tribute what it can.”  

Supreme Court Denies Church Rob­bers’ Appeal of ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Judge: Judge:

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 well-put. For pos­i­tive Chris­t­ian per­spec­tives on free mar­kets, google Robert Siri­co and Jay Richards.

Chief Rab­bi Sacks on Com­par­a­tive Advan­tage

In this short video, Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rab­bi for the British Ortho­dox syn­a­gogues, explains how the “beau­ti­ful idea” of com­par­a­tive advan­tage pro­motes peace, coop­er­a­tion and tol­er­ance among all…

This is a very inter­est­ing analy­sis of Cit­i­zens Unit­ed. 

AsABlack­Man com­ments on I’m Con­gress­man Jim McGov­ern, and I just intro­duced two con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments to over­turn Cit­i­zens Unit­ed, get the mon­ey out of pol­i­tics, and restore “We, the peo­ple.”

**Edit** So I guess it’s not as unpop­u­lar as I thought it would be >_> Thank you for the red­dit gold! For those of you who want a TLDR, I’m *real­ly…

I feel as if I learn more from this blog (GetRe­li­gion) than almost any oth­er source. Fas­ci­nat­ing details.

Media cov­er­age of Roe at 40

As the 40th anniver­sary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court deci­sion takes place on Tues­day, a major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans – for the first time – believe abor­tion should be legal in all or most cas­es, accordin…

This seems wise for those who aspire to tenure.

Career advice from Richard Thaler

My advice for young researchers at the start of their career is… Work on your own ideas, not your advisor’s ideas (or at least in addi­tion to her ideas). And spend more time think­ing and less time rea…

I actu­al­ly had great expe­ri­ences with group projects back in col­lege, but this is still fun­ny.

Neila Lott orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

Group projects. What they teach you.

Spur­geon was a boss.

Spur­geon and Church Car­ni­vals (updat­ed) | NT Resources

Input per­son­al prop­er­ty and asked in no cach advance cach advance forms and afford the cri­sis. Hard to default or if that pay­day loans pay­day loans offer some­thing like instant cash. Life hap­pens and …

I have often been mys­ti­fied at the way Chris­tian­i­ty is por­trayed in the media. It’s almost as though those who write the scripts/report the news/craft the essays don’t actu­al­ly know any seri­ous Chris­tians.

Who Owns “Evan­gel­i­cal­ism” in America?Who Owns “Evan­gel­i­cal­ism” in Amer­i­ca?

A lit­tle while ago, I had writ­ten two pieces (here and here) mak­ing the case for defin­ing evan­gel­i­cal­ism accord­ing to its the­o­log­i­cal dis­tin

I should give this to peo­ple in Chi Alpha who say they want to learn how to play.

How to Final­ly Play the Gui­tar: 80/20 Gui­tar and Min­i­mal­ist Music

When will you stop dream­ing and start play­ing? (Pho­to: Musi­cian “Lights”, Cred­it: Shan­di-lee) I’ve always want­ed to play the gui­tar. It start­ed as a kid, lis­ten­ing to my dad play …