Sunday, February 8, 2015

The Debatable Lands

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Of all the cool-sounding names given in fantasy and reality to rough parts of the world (the Bad Lands, Broken Lands, the Burning Lands, etc...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Best Use of "Whitesplaining" Ever

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"[Jacob Canfield] knows all about Islam and racism, [yet] he's neither from a Muslim background nor non-white. Of course neither of...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Examples of Antiquity's Influence on American Founders

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Of many, here are two of recent interest: 1) Gibbon's pointing to the increasing power of the Praetorian Guard in the Roman Empire lead...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

The War on Terroir

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FINALLY, people are starting to avail themselves of the pun opportunities given the similarity of terror and terroir . I for one have long ...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

We Might Be Careful What We Infer From These Happiness Statistics

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Here is a list of "top" countries ranked in order of what percent of interviewed people were satisfied according to the question, ...
Monday, June 30, 2014

The Endowment Effect as a Rational Strategy

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The endowment effect is well-studied: people assign higher worths to their own possessions than to same things owned by someone else. Tha...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Passivity and Usefulness of Information Do Not Positively Correlate

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Previously I posted that we shouldn't be surprised that media information that we receive passively isn't necessarily useful to us ....