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Monday, February 17, 2014

Scientific Illiteracy

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Barney Henderson at the UK Telegraph reports on a survey which is depressing for what it tells us about scientific literacy among Americans...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Differences

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Casual observers are often confused by the distinctions between the ideological parties known as conservatives and liberals. What makes a co...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Is Atheism Rational?

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A friend called my attention to an interview with philosopher Alvin Plantinga at The New York Times' Opinionator . The topic was whethe...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

A Modest Proposal

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John Podhoretz at The New York Post summarizes why he thinks the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) report on the effects of the ACA on futu...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Sizes of Things

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Here's a fun interactive site that you won't be able to stop playing with. By moving the scroll bar you can zoom in or out to see h...
Monday, February 10, 2014

The Gravy Train Has Left the Station

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Kyle Smith reviews a book by Harry S. Dent, Jr. titled The Demographic Cliff: How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Libet's Discovery and Free Will

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Students of psychology, philosophy and other disciplines which touch upon the operations of the mind and the question of free will have prob...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Trying to Get My Mind Right

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Maybe if I were smarter I wouldn't be so mystified by how liberals think, but, given my limitations, I really am often puzzled by the th...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Thoughts on Ham/Nye

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The other evening a young earth creationist named Ken Ham debated the well-known science popularizer Bill Nye on the question whether Creati...

In the Dock

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Bill Whittle at Afterburner asks us to imagine that we stand before a jury of millions of Americans who struggled, bled, and died for our fr...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The Stupid Party Tries to Live Up to its Name

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The Republican Party is sometimes referred to by despairing friends and gleeful foes as the "Stupid Party," a pejorative that goes...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Truth and the Gender Wage Gap

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Having squandered so much credibility with his repeated promise that the Affordable Care Act would allow people to keep their insurance and ...
Monday, February 3, 2014

What Lies Ahead

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Megan McArdle describes a debate she participated in recently on the resolution that "Obamacare is Now Beyond Rescuing." In her ar...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

STAP

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A group of researchers led by Japanese scientists working with research institutions in the U.S. have made a discovery that could well be on...
Friday, January 31, 2014

MSNBC's Boomerang

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I sometimes think that some ideological partisans, particularly on the left, live in a fantasy world, or at least a different world from the...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

The President's Minimum Wage EO

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Ed Morrisey at Hot Air explains why President Obama's plan to raise the minimum wage for federal contracts will be either meaningless t...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cruel Logic

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A professor has given a lecture this evening in which he claims that our behavior is the product of our genetic make-up. We don't really...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Inevitability of Polyamory

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Last fall I commented on VP (see here and here ) that I thought the strongest argument against legalizing gay marriage was that if society ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Nye v. Ham

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Those interested in the so-called "creation-evolution" controversy might be interested in watching a debate being held on February...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Ten Books People Lie About Reading

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A piece by Ben Domenech at The Federalist discusses ten books that people often claim to have read but haven't. I don't know how Do...