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from The Last Election, Andrew Yang and Stephen Marche

“It is a successful fifteen seconds of television, the result of months of planning and hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultancy fees.” p24 Yeah. Politicians are as bad as business owners. If they spent their marketing budget on making a better product, providing better service … There ought to be a low ceiling in …

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funny bit from John Scalzi

I’m reading through his “Whatever” archive … “See, now, this is a dog: [picture of Kodi …] as opposed to a Shih Tzu, at which you look and say to yourself ‘This is what happens when you put a mop and a stuffed animal in a room with a Barry White CD.’” Picture Day Part …

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An idea for profs

Here’s an idea I’d implement if I were still teaching: Have your students grade each other’s papers, anonymously. First, they have to establish critieria and justify them, then they have to grade the paper they’re randomly assigned accordingly. You grade them according to how well they graded the other’s paper. Hopefully, this will counteract the …

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Research into male/female differences–is a redo required?

Does any research into the differences between male and female distinguish between females who have experienced pregnancy and childbirth and those who have not? It’s doubtful, since most research is conducted by men, to whom making such a distinction would not even occur. But there are permanent changes to the brain as a result of …

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Unpregnant (the movie)

The movie titled Unpregnant has been on my list for a while, but I’ve just subscribed to CRAVE. One, I was appalled to see that the movie is categorized as a comedy. I suspect the categorizing is done not by CRAVE staff, but according to the movie’s submitted metadata, which means it’s the writer, director …

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from Slow Motion: changing masculinities, changing men, Lynne Segal

“The question of why it is men, and most often fathers or step-fathers, who sexually abuse children is not addressed [in recent books on fathering].” p55 “And far from criticizing women for failing to satisfy men’s needs, feminists … question whence these ‘needs’ derive, and whether these needs themselves should not be seen as the …

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The obsession with Mars

The obsession with any sort of off-planet future is completely irrational. Look: Mars, for example, is uninhabitable as is. So you’re going to have to build bubbles or bunkers to live in. So why not just build them here? Save the travel expenses.

a few of the many insights in Holly Bourne’s When We Were Friends

“That song [“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” by Carole King) is the most true song that’s ever been written.” p175 “Speaking so loudly [about football] and with such arrogant authority that everyone else sort of had to listen.” p219 “Is it just me or is it crazy that football chat is taken seriously when …

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Truth

Only someone who doesn’t know very much thinks the truth is simple. (just finished Crichton’s Airframe,which illustrates that very claim through, notably, a reporter)

Bill Maher – yes! what he said!

Watch it at least until the June 31 bit.