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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.

Sarah Pagan orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

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?

The The

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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 Kay

The 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…

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In relat­ed news, adopt­ing a com­pre­hen­sive view of the nature of ulti­mate real­i­ty affects your life com­pre­hen­sive­ly. 

Stan­ford Schol­ars Say Reli­gion Changes Hunt­ing Habits

The intro­duc­tion of Chris­tian­i­ty has changed the hunt­ing habits of indige­nous peo­ple in the Ama­zon. While some new prac­tices could ben­e­fit ani­mals, oth­ers could put pop­u­la­tions at risk.

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Inter­est­ing tid­bit: “In my con­sult­ing expe­ri­ences in the past, I found that esti­mat­ed atten­dance was inflat­ed by a fac­tor of over 30 per­cent.” Also, count­ing peo­ple on a mis­sion trip seems odd to me (a sug­ges­tion that comes near the end).

How Church­es Count Atten­dance

Many church lead­ers and mem­bers cringe when they hear or read about num­bers and sta­tis­tics in church­es. Such a reac­tion is under­stand­able. For many years in many church­es, num­bers were an obses­sion.…..