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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?

Who Real­ly Gives? Par­ti­san­ship and Char­i­ta­ble Giv­ing in the Unit­ed States — The Mon­key CagePrince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty Press

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’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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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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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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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

Notes on a debate “gaffe” that was­n’t.

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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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This is dis­turbing­ly plau­si­ble.

Mona Nomu­ra orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

Haha­hah­ha­ha

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My life is bet­ter for hav­ing seen this video.

Non-Explod­ing Soda Can Trick — Epic Win

October(10) · How my cat out­smart­ed my dog · Non-Explod­ing Soda Can Trick · Man gets Charged by a Goril­la · Junk deal­er returns $114000 · Mul­ti-Pur­pose Road Bike · Michael Phelps Putt At St. Andrews ·…

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And the Stan­ford Flip­side once again dom­i­nates every oth­er cam­pus pub­li­ca­tion…

Sneak Pre­view: Fifty Shades of Car­di­nal

In response to the Daily’s recent flur­ry of sex arti­cles, The Flipside’s own Matthew LaVan has once more tak­en up the pen and writ­ten the soon-to-be best sell­er 50 Shades of Car­di­nal. Although the nov­el won’t hit the shelves until 2013, LaVan has gra­cious­ly allowed us to share some of the most tan­ta­liz­ing scenes ear­ly.
The heavy door swung open, and my breath caught in my throat. Book­shelves lined the walls, and the floor was dom­i­nat­ed by taste­fu…