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The mouseover text on this XKCD is fab­u­lous.

xkcd: Star Rat­ings

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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…

When I tell stu­dents that there are objec­tive and prac­ti­cal ben­e­fits to faith they seem sur­prised. But that’s the nature of truth — when you make choic­es based upon real­i­ty, those choic­es tend to work out bet­ter. 

What can we all learn from reli­gion — whether we believe or not? — 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…

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

http://pocket.co/sQbN2

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 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 …

Wait. What? I need more infor­ma­tion.

Is less vio­lent TV and more edu­ca­tion­al TV the answer to bet­ter behaved kids? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Join 25K+ sub­scribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: No. Edu­ca­tion­al TV increased phys­i­cal aggres­sion at school almost as much as vio­lent TV. And the more edu­ca­tion­al TV a kid watched, the cru…

Osborne brings his usu­al wis­dom — espe­cial­ly point 3.

SLOW DOWN – YOU MOVE TOO FAST!

Because North Coast Church has been some­what inno­v­a­tive over the years and suc­cess­ful­ly made lots of changes, I’m often asked by oth­er pas­tors and lead­ers about the best way to go about mak­ing majo.…..

The grow­ing dis­con­nect between those who make deci­sions about the use of mil­i­tary force and those who are called upon to ful­fill their deci­sions has been dis­turb­ing me for a while. But this fact caught me off guard.

Tweets to pon­der

Also: no mil­i­tary ser­vice among either prez/VP nom­i­nees, Sco­tus jus­tices, Sen­ate leader and (save 8 weeks) House speak­er. That thought has a lega­cy through David Leon­hardt and Sarah Wilcox.

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…