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
Category: Of Random Interest
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I’ve been trying to get my friends in ministry to believe this for years — but they frequently look at me like I’m nuts.
Young Women and Porn Use: What Does the Data Say?
Recently I gave a talk at a Christian college about the contemporary mating market, and found myself in a conversation afterward with two women students and an administrator. I had mentioned during th…
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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…
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I normally think marketing stunts are pretty cheesy, but this is legit.
Rick Klau originally shared this post:
This is amazing. Hats off to Coke Zero, totally inspired idea.
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This is well-said. Exactly what I was thinking. There are so many legitimate things to knock each candidate for that I’m always shocked at the weird things the media harps on.
“Binders Full of Women” and the Partisan Mind
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Wow. This is a much stronger effect than I would have guessed.
Surnames and the laws of social mobility
Here is some new work by Gregory Clark (pdf): What is the true rate of social mobility? Modern one-generation studies suggest considerable regression to the mean for all measures of status – wealth, i…
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Dave Croteau’s answer (linked in the text) nails it.
Is it stealing from God to split your tithe between the church and other charities? | Andy Naselli
Thoughts on Theology. Exegesis · Biblical Theology · Historical Theology · Systematic Theology · Practical Theology · Other · Home/; Practical Theology/; Is it stealing from God to split your tithe be…
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This is an amusing reversal of the famous Sokal Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair)
Nonsense paper accepted by mathematics journal
Last month That’s Mathematics! reported another landmark event in the history of academic publishing. A paper by Marcie Rathke of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople had been provisional…
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My life is better for having seen this video.
Non-Exploding Soda Can Trick — Epic Win
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