{"id":5047,"date":"2018-07-06T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T23:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2018-07-06T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T23:18:16","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/07\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-159","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 159"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. Police attacked me for steal\u00ading a car. It was my own.<\/a> (Lawrence Cros\u00adby, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cEvery time I see the video from that Octo\u00adber 2015 encounter, I expe\u00adri\u00adence fear, anger and ter\u00adror. Fear that the col\u00ador of my skin will make me out to be a crim\u00adi\u00adnal when I have bro\u00adken no laws. Anger at the bla\u00adtant dis\u00adre\u00adgard for human life and rights that the Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion is sup\u00adposed to guar\u00adan\u00adtee to all cit\u00adi\u00adzens. Ter\u00adror to have come \u2014 per\u00adhaps \u2014 with\u00adin sec\u00adonds of being shot by peo\u00adple sworn to serve and pro\u00adtect.\u201d Lawrence is an alum\u00adnus of our Chi Alpha min\u00adistry. He just earned his Ph.D. at North\u00adwest\u00adern in Mate\u00adri\u00adals Sci\u00adence and Engi\u00adneer\u00ading.<\/li>\n
  2. Spi\u00adders Can Fly Hun\u00addreds of Miles Using Elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Ed Yong, The Atlantic): \u201cThey put the arach\u00adnids on ver\u00adti\u00adcal strips of card\u00adboard in the cen\u00adter of a plas\u00adtic box, and then gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded elec\u00adtric fields between the floor and ceil\u00ading of sim\u00adi\u00adlar strengths to what the spi\u00adders would expe\u00adri\u00adence out\u00addoors.\u2026 Many of the spi\u00adders actu\u00adal\u00adly man\u00adaged to take off, despite being in closed box\u00ades with no air\u00adflow with\u00adin them. And when Mor\u00adley turned off the elec\u00adtric fields inside the box\u00ades, the bal\u00adloon\u00ading spi\u00adders dropped.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Dis\u00adsolv\u00ading the Fer\u00admi Para\u00addox<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cImag\u00adine we knew God flipped a coin. If it came up heads, He made 10 bil\u00adlion alien civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion. If it came up tails, He made none besides Earth. Using our one para\u00adme\u00adter Drake Equa\u00adtion, we deter\u00admine that on aver\u00adage<\/em> there should be 5 bil\u00adlion alien civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtions. Since we see zero, that\u2019s quite the para\u00addox, isn\u2019t it? No. In this case the mean is mean\u00ading\u00adless. It\u2019s not at all sur\u00adpris\u00ading that we see zero alien civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtions, it just means the coin must have land\u00aded tails. SDO say that rely\u00ading on the Drake Equa\u00adtion is the same kind of error.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Why Sex\u00adism and Racism Nev\u00ader Diminish\u2013Even When Every\u00adone Becomes Less Sex\u00adist and Racist<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cWhen strong sex\u00adism declines, for exam\u00adple, the Over\u00adton win\u00addow shrinks on one end and expands on the oth\u00ader so that what was once not con\u00adsid\u00adered sex\u00adism at all (e.g. \u2018men and women have dif\u00adfer\u00adent pref\u00ader\u00adences which might explain job choice\u2019) now becomes vio\u00adlent\u00adly sex\u00adist.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. For\u00adget About It<\/a> (Corey Robin, Harper\u2019s Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cEver since the 2016 pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial elec\u00adtion, we\u2019ve been warned against nor\u00admal\u00adiz\u00ading Trump. That fear of nor\u00admal\u00adiza\u00adtion mis\u00adstates the prob\u00adlem, though. It\u2019s nev\u00ader the imme\u00addi\u00adate present, no mat\u00adter how bad, that gets nor\u00admal\u00adized \u2014 it\u2019s the not-so-dis\u00adtant past.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. A Time of Reck\u00adon\u00ading<\/a> (Mary Eber\u00adstadt, The Week\u00adly Stan\u00addard): \u201cOver the years, a great many peo\u00adple have claimed that sex is mere\u00adly a pri\u00advate act between indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals. They\u2019ve been wrong. We know now that pri\u00advate acts have cumu\u00adla\u00adtive pub\u00adlic effects. Indi\u00advid\u00adual choic\u00ades, such as hav\u00ading chil\u00addren out of wed\u00adlock, have end\u00aded up expand\u00ading the mod\u00adern wel\u00adfare state, for exam\u00adple, as the gov\u00adern\u00adment has stepped in to sup\u00adport chil\u00addren who lack fathers. The explo\u00adsion of sex\u00adu\u00adal activ\u00adi\u00adty thanks to con\u00adtra\u00adcep\u00adtion has been accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by lev\u00adels of divorce, cohab\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion, and abor\u00adtion nev\u00ader before seen in his\u00adto\u00adry.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n