This is a well-done visual of the distribution of religious beliefs.
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Sweet!
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This is not a gif
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What a great anecdote.
Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Clouded Crystal Ball: A Psychic and Her Employees
My first job in the U.S. was passing out flyers for a fortune teller on Powell and Market in San Francisco. She did not trust her psychic powers enough to guess who was doing a truly good job (it was …
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I don’t think I’ve seen this observation anywhere else: “…if it defies good sense to send teenaged girls off into the woods with heterosexual men, it likely defies good sense to send teenaged boys off with homosexual men. This is no aspersion against homosexuals, except insofar as they are men, and we know enough about men to understand that some of them find teenagers sexually attractive, and the older and more mature-looking these teenagers, the easier it becomes for seemingly decent men to violate them while pretending the act is consensual.”
Sand in the Gears » Blog Archive » Gays, Boy Scouts, and dogma
Slippery words • Home •. Gays, Boy Scouts, and dogma. February 4th, 2013 Posted in Policy and Politics. The Boy Scouts of America is considering an end to its prohibition against homosexual troop lead…
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For my programmer friends.
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This is the funniest thing I have seen shared on facebook (that I didn’t see here first) in a long time!
h/t +Sam Davenport
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I am not sure whether Scott Adams would be awesome or horrible to know in real life. Either way, he’d be entertaining.
Dilbert comic strip for 02/08/2013 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.
The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and mor…
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But they have so many trophys and participation awards.
FactChecker: Are Millennials More Self-Sacrificing and Community-Minded Than Previous Generations?
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Many of these are quite good. For example: “Adulthood is the moment at which your expenditure on Christmas presents
first exceeds the value of the gifts you can expect to receive.”
- John KayThe Browser Book of Quotations
You will find it here (pdf). There are numerous good bits, here is one of them: To admire an artist for his own sake, although certainly a compliment, can also be a way of suggesting that he has no p…
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The levels of disparity in outcomes are shocking.
How much does graduate school matter for being an economics professor?
There is a new paper, by Zhengye Chen, an enterprising undergraduate from the University of Chicago: Of the 138 Ph.D. economics programs in the United States, the top fifteen Ph.D. programs in economi…
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I get the argument he is making… but there are some channels I dislike so much that their presence in a bundle makes the bundle less desirable to me. I would pay more for less.
Does Cable TV Ripoff People Who Don’t Like Sports?
Recently the LATimes ignited a firestorm of anti-sports commentary by arguing that people who don’t watch sports are being ripped off by Cable TV. A key concern is that the higher bills driven by spor…