http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/haswell-e-arrives-bringing-a-999-8-core-desktop-cpu-with-it/
---Steve
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Slate: The Longform Guide to Modern Las Vegas
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The Longform Guide to Modern Las Vegas
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/longform/2014/08/las_vegas_hunter_s_thompson_britney_spears_and_zappos.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/longform/2014/08/las_vegas_hunter_s_thompson_britney_spears_and_zappos.html
---Steve
Friday, August 29, 2014
On the hazards of significance testing. Part 2: the false discovery rate, or how not to make a fool of yourself with P values
It is difficult to give a consensus of informed opinion because, although there is much informed opinion, there is rather little consensus. A personal view follows. Colquhoun (1970),Lectures on Biostatistics, pp 94-95.
---Steve
Inky Fool: Shuffle
http://blog.inkyfool.com/2014/07/shuffle.html
I have a strange fondness for frequentatives, frequentative being verbs that happen frequently. So if you spark once, you spark. But if you spark frequently, you sparkle. If you crack once, you crack. But if you crack frequently you crackle. If you charge into somebody once wearing full armour and carrying a lance, you joust. If you do it all the time, you jostle. Burst, bustle. Jog, joggle. Tramp, trample. Scuff, scuffle. Prate, prattle. Wade, waddle.
---Steve
I have a strange fondness for frequentatives, frequentative being verbs that happen frequently. So if you spark once, you spark. But if you spark frequently, you sparkle. If you crack once, you crack. But if you crack frequently you crackle. If you charge into somebody once wearing full armour and carrying a lance, you joust. If you do it all the time, you jostle. Burst, bustle. Jog, joggle. Tramp, trample. Scuff, scuffle. Prate, prattle. Wade, waddle.
---Steve
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
Slate: The Ice Bucket Challenge Isn’t Going Away
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The Ice Bucket Challenge Isn't Going Away
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/08/als_ice_bucket_challenge_giving_money_to_disease_specific_charities_is_a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/08/als_ice_bucket_challenge_giving_money_to_disease_specific_charities_is_a.html
---Steve
Sunday, August 24, 2014
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Slate: Our Curiosity
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Slate: What Makes People Look Like Their Pets?
Cool experimental design..
What Makes People Look Like Their Pets?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/08/pets_look_like_their_owners_dog_and_their_people_have_similar_eyes.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/08/pets_look_like_their_owners_dog_and_their_people_have_similar_eyes.html
---Steve
Slate: Did I Say 30 Billion Tons of CO2 a Year? I Meant 40.
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Did I Say 30 Billion Tons of CO2 a Year? I Meant 40.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/20/atmospheric_co2_humans_put_40_billion_tons_into_the_air_annually.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/20/atmospheric_co2_humans_put_40_billion_tons_into_the_air_annually.html
---Steve
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Plane emergency landing psychology study: People with PTSD have irrelevant memories.
Plane emergency landing psychology study: People with PTSD have irrelevant memories.: "What did vary among the accounts was the number of details that had nothing to do with Air Transat Flight 236 at all. After transcribing the memories, the researchers went back and coded statements as “internal” (“directly related to the main event … specific to time and place … conveying a sense of episodic re-experiencing”) and “external” (“factual information or extended events that did not require recollection of a specific time and place,” “tangential … autobiographical details,” editorializing, repetitions, metacognitive claims like “I can’t remember”). They found that passengers with PTSD produced far more external details than those without. This held true for the nonflight memories too: A survivor with PTSD was more likely to surround her nonemotional recollection with semantic data, repetition, and unrelated noise. "
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Slate: A Memorable Flight
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---Steve
Monday, August 18, 2014
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
SEDONA CITY CODE
SEDONA CITY CODE:
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8.25.100.E
Domesticated or caged nonfarm animals may not bark, squeal, crow, howl or make any other such noises for more than five minutes if continuous or more than 15 minutes if intermittent. At all times, the limits set forth in Table I do not apply.'via Blog this'
Friday, August 15, 2014
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Saturday, August 09, 2014
Why do flamingos stand on one leg? [Zoo Biol. 2010 May-Jun] - PubMed - NCBI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19637281
Results strongly suggest that unipedal resting aids flamingos in thermoregulation.
---Steve
Results strongly suggest that unipedal resting aids flamingos in thermoregulation.
---Steve
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
Slate: The Secret Rules of Adjective Order
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The Secret Rules of Adjective Order
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2014/08/the_study_of_adjective_order_and_gsssacpm.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2014/08/the_study_of_adjective_order_and_gsssacpm.html
---Steve
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Scientia Salon
http://scientiasalon.org/
Many of my Leftist friends don't seem particularly bothered when people from the Right get offended. We all watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with relish, and our cars sport bumper stickers that loudly proclaim "If you don't like abortion, don't have one." As it should be. But the other side also has a right to feel under attack and respond in kind, regardless of whether we think their feelings are justified or not. Yes, it is certainly ludicrous for Christians in the US to consider themselves under assault in the same sense in which other religious or ethnic minorities are. But it is certainly the case that the world has become increasingly uncomfortable for your typical southern white male fundamentalist (fortunately, I will add), which explains the vehemence of some of the reactions coming from those quarters. Again, the proper liberal progressive response to such reactions is targeted humor and continued rational engagement, not an embracing of the same culture of taking offense and attempting to silence one's opponents for which we justly criticize the Right.
---Steve
Many of my Leftist friends don't seem particularly bothered when people from the Right get offended. We all watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with relish, and our cars sport bumper stickers that loudly proclaim "If you don't like abortion, don't have one." As it should be. But the other side also has a right to feel under attack and respond in kind, regardless of whether we think their feelings are justified or not. Yes, it is certainly ludicrous for Christians in the US to consider themselves under assault in the same sense in which other religious or ethnic minorities are. But it is certainly the case that the world has become increasingly uncomfortable for your typical southern white male fundamentalist (fortunately, I will add), which explains the vehemence of some of the reactions coming from those quarters. Again, the proper liberal progressive response to such reactions is targeted humor and continued rational engagement, not an embracing of the same culture of taking offense and attempting to silence one's opponents for which we justly criticize the Right.
---Steve
Monday, August 04, 2014
Slate: The Fishy Origins of the Fish Oil Craze
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The Fishy Origins of the Fish Oil Craze
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/08/does_fish_oil_prevent_heart_disease_original_danish_eskimo_diet_study_was.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/08/does_fish_oil_prevent_heart_disease_original_danish_eskimo_diet_study_was.html
---Steve
Sunday, August 03, 2014
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Friday, August 01, 2014
Skepticblog » Smarter than thou?
http://www.skepticblog.org/2014/07/30/smarter-than-thou/#more-26067
We already tried that experiment with a president who was a cheerleader and a "C" student, and was a "good ol' boy you could drink a beer with", who prided himself on making decisions "from the gut" rather than by careful thought and weighing evidence, who actively encouraged science deniers in his administration and endorsed creationism—and look where that got us!
---Steve
We already tried that experiment with a president who was a cheerleader and a "C" student, and was a "good ol' boy you could drink a beer with", who prided himself on making decisions "from the gut" rather than by careful thought and weighing evidence, who actively encouraged science deniers in his administration and endorsed creationism—and look where that got us!
---Steve
Monday, July 28, 2014
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How Much Do Our Genes Influence Our Political Beliefs? - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/opinion/thomas-edsall-how-much-do-our-genes-influence-our-political-beliefs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=1
---Steve
---Steve
Language Log » Critical take-downs
John Mason Brown's review of an actor playing King Lear: He played the King as if afraid someone else would play the Ace.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Slate: Sweden’s School Choice Disaster
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
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Sunday, July 13, 2014
Saturday, July 12, 2014
16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
Check out this article from azcentral:
16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
http://azc.cc/1moFtS2
---Steve
16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
http://azc.cc/1moFtS2
---Steve
Slate: RIP, Charlie Haden
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
When Beliefs and Facts Collide - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/upshot/when-beliefs-and-facts-collide.html?_r=2
The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it.
---Steve
The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it.
---Steve
Hobby Lobby's Not Alone: Here Are 4 of the High Court's Biggest Science Blunders | Mother Jones
In a paper in the Harvard Law Review dissecting the case, Yale law professor Dan Kahan eviscerated Scalia's dissenting opinion (which was joined by Justice Thomas), calling it "a species of cynicism toxic to reasoned self-government."
Discovery Institute Moves into Abortion Debate | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it
Slate: 7 Of The Best Dialect Quizzes
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---Steve
Monday, July 07, 2014
Wandering attention
"Voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will."
--William James
---Steve
--William James
---Steve
Saturday, July 05, 2014
Friday, July 04, 2014
6 quotes that will remind your conservative family of Abraham Lincoln's liberalism Blue Nation Review
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
- Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
---SteveFritinancy
James Wood begins his New Yorker review of Gilbert's novelwith this comment on the unusual title:
---SteveThe stunted title of David Gilbert's second novel, "& Sons" (Random House), does a lot of useful work. It hints at succession but also at severance; at a family tree but also at a broken commercial line. The implied absence gestures toward the great stories of intergenerational struggle: Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," Gosse's "Father and Son." And then there is that cocky ampersand: slightly offensive in its abstraction, wearily dismissive, the key to the whole coda.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
The Greatest Dietary Guidance? If It Gets Cold, Reheat It! | David Katz, M.D.
But then, inevitably, in a world where diets are embraced with religious zeal and we can't seem to manage a separation of church and plate, there's a group that lets disagreement veer off into disparagement, turning differing opinions into excuses for ad hominem attacks.
---Steve
---Steve
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
The 49-page Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling mentioned women just 13 times - The Washington Post
m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/30/the-49-page-supreme-court-hobby-lobby-ruling-mentioned-women-just-13-times?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
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