Category: Of Random Interest

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…

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…

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…

The mouseover text on this XKCD is fab­u­lous.

xkcd: Star Rat­ings

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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…

I love the idea of a din­ner for the top tax­pay­ers. That’s bril­liant. If dona­tions buy access, then why not tax­es?

Sen­tences to pon­der

…I find it remark­able that I have yet to receive a thank you note for pay­ing my tax­es. When I fill out my tax­es, I notice that even receipts for $25 dona­tions have thank you notes attached. But for t…