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Peg Tittle
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Jun 05 2025
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 …
Jun 04 2025
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 …
Jun 04 2025
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 …
Jun 03 2025
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 …
Jun 03 2025
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.
Jun 02 2025
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 …
Jun 01 2025
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)
May 30 2025
Freedom of Speech vs DEI initiatives
Margaret Munn – Defending Freedom of Speech in Canada: The Impact of DEI Initiatives
May 29 2025
Men ‘experience’ labour pain
Read the comments too, especially about the relative duration of the pain …
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