Glen Davis

This reminds me of an obser­va­tion some­one made a few months ago, “The prob­lem we have is that one par­ty is dan­ger­ous and the oth­er is stu­pid.”

Lib­er­als accord­ing to con­ser­v­a­tives, con­ser­v­a­tives accord­ing to lib­er­als

A 2006 CBS News sur­veys asked peo­ple who said they were con­ser­v­a­tive a few ques­tions about lib­er­als and asked peo­ple who said they were lib­er­als the same ques­tions about con­ser­v­a­tives (peo­ple who said…

This reminds me of some arti­cles I read back in school about epis­te­mol­o­gy. The mouseover text on this one is par­tic­u­lar­ly illu­mi­nat­ing.

xkcd: Debug­ger

Prev · Ran­dom; Next >; >|. Per­ma­nent link to this com­ic: http://xkcd.com/1163/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/debugger.png. Select­ed Comics. Search com­ic …

I’m not shar­ing this because of the top­ic or the author’s point of view. Instead, he made a fas­ci­nat­ing obser­va­tion: “How much free speech do we have? It depends on the medi­um. Maybe the sequence from less to more cen­sored is: 1. Con­ver­sa­tion. 2. Email and oth­er pri­vate writ­ing. 3. Blog post. 4. Poor­ly-writ­ten book. 5. Arti­cle in minor mag­a­zine. 6. Well-writ­ten book. 7. Arti­cle in pres­ti­gious mag­a­zine. 8. Text­book. From one step to the next (e.g., from con­ver­sa­tion to email), views become less diverse.” I am not sure I buy the mid­dle points of his con­tin­u­um (although maybe he means by “well-writ­ten book” some­thing more like “con­tro­ver­sial book writ­ten by some­one oth­er­wise cul­tur­al­ly respectable”).

Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » “The Most Influ­en­tial Tree in the World”

When the fig­ures were pub­lished the extra­or­di­nary lack of data under­ly­ing the blade of the Yamal hock­ey stick caused a minor sen­sa­tion. In fact the high point at the end of the graph was shown to have…

Some­times it feels like this try­ing to get a meet­ing with a stu­dent. 😉

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 01/22/2013 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…

This is a very inter­est­ing analy­sis of Cit­i­zens Unit­ed. 

AsABlack­Man com­ments on I’m Con­gress­man Jim McGov­ern, and I just intro­duced two con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments to over­turn Cit­i­zens Unit­ed, get the mon­ey out of pol­i­tics, and restore “We, the peo­ple.”

**Edit** So I guess it’s not as unpop­u­lar as I thought it would be >_> Thank you for the red­dit gold! For those of you who want a TLDR, I’m *real­ly…

This is well-put. For pos­i­tive Chris­t­ian per­spec­tives on free mar­kets, google Robert Siri­co and Jay Richards.

Chief Rab­bi Sacks on Com­par­a­tive Advan­tage

In this short video, Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rab­bi for the British Ortho­dox syn­a­gogues, explains how the “beau­ti­ful idea” of com­par­a­tive advan­tage pro­motes peace, coop­er­a­tion and tol­er­ance among all…

This sto­ry made me chor­tle —  Judge: “You took the Lord’s mon­ey.… ‘Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord,’ but every now and then I think the judi­cial sys­tem has to con­tribute what it can.”  

Supreme Court Denies Church Rob­bers’ Appeal of ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Judge: Judge:

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 …

I actu­al­ly had great expe­ri­ences with group projects back in col­lege, but this is still fun­ny.

Neila Lott orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

Group projects. What they teach you.

This seems wise for those who aspire to tenure.

Career advice from Richard Thaler

My advice for young researchers at the start of their career is… Work on your own ideas, not your advisor’s ideas (or at least in addi­tion to her ideas). And spend more time think­ing and less time rea…