Amazing discovery: Talking to people sometimes helps. (2012/05/02)
School experiments with finding out why kids are acting up, discovers that this helps.
[read more...]No girl believes that she's beautiful... (2012/04/27)
Someone posted a little image meme on Tumblr recently, which was just the oh-so inspiring text:
[read more...]Sometimes you just gotta eat the losses (2012/04/25)
A lot of our problems come from people being obsessively focused, somewhat irrationally, on trying to absolutely eliminate things that they regard as losses. From the DMCA’s “anti-circumvention” rules to the attempts at making SOPA/PIPA (and new attempts to make the same laws again), there is a huge amount of damage being done or attempted in the hopes of completely eradicating copyright infringement.
[read more...]Legend of Grimrock: Quick review (2012/04/14)
Haven’t finished the game yet, but having a great time.
[read more...]The tone argument argument: A straw man in motion (2012/04/11)
Someone linked me to a discussion of the tone argument. Here’s the key point:
[read more...]Stereotypes: Sometimes not purely made up. (2012/04/11)
Homophobia stronger in unacknowledged gays.
[read more...]Dear Mr. Santorum: You are out of order (2012/04/10)
Someone made a quip that Rick Santorum ought to have to carry his dead campaign to term, but this is of course ridiculous.
[read more...]Power laws and percentages (2012/04/09)
So, was thinking more about the Million dollar Murray article. This raises an interesting question.
[read more...]Followup on homelessness and the like (2012/04/09)
Million-dollar Murray is a more detailed look at some of the issues to do with homelessness and social services.
[read more...]Hatred is still scary (2012/04/08)
So, our friend Rah did something pretty awesome. She made cheap, portable, housing. The summary of the thesis is particularly endearing.
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