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Even More Links For September 2014
Data science divides the music world into 1264 genres, and the Guardian wants to show us all of them. Okay, ten of them. Including “charred death”, “deep filthstep”, and “skweee”. This is a joke: Five Ways ISIS Can Reduce Its … Continue reading
More Links For September 2014
Jeff Kaufman wades through conflicting claims about the effectiveness of SAT coaching. And speaking of which: Scott Aaronson endorses Steven Pinker’s critique of the college admissions process, which you might remember from the last links post here. Yet another very … Continue reading
Links For September 2014
If he’d posted it here it would have been a Comment Of The Month, but since he posted it on Less Wrong I’m reduced to linking it: Viliam Bur on why Freud is not your strawman of Freud. Last links … Continue reading
More Links For August
The man who set the world record for fastest drive across the US did it in 28 hours 50 minutes in a heavily modded car, with one ear to the police scanner at all times. Weird politics: Why Is A … Continue reading
Links For August 2014
The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui is a Bigfoot-like creature that haunts the top of a Scottish peak and is known for chasing attempted mountaineers. The most likely explanation is a Brocken Spectre, an optical phenomenon in which on … Continue reading
More Links For July 2014
The most embarassing part of the Slavoj Zizek plagiarism scandal isn’t that Zizek committed plagiarism. It isn’t even that he plagiarized a white supremacist website. It’s the way the plagiarism was discovered. Steve Sailer was reading a Zizek book and … Continue reading
Links For July 2014
The Koran talks about a mysterious immortal figure named Khidr who travels the Middle East and hangs out with prophets. And the passages about him seem to have inspired some of the Jewish folk tales about Elijah I heard growing … Continue reading
More Links For June 2014
Nassim Taleb’s List of Aphorisms, Rules, and Heuristics. 135: “Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature”. I have spent enough time around Finns that I find the Finnish Problems meme pretty funny. An angle of … Continue reading
Links for June 2014
Adorable ten year old Indian child sends a $20 bill to India’s central bank to “help the economy”. Here’s the letter they sent back. This is something I imagine Ozy having done as a ten year old. Did you know … Continue reading
More Links For May 2014
Consider taking the Effective Altruism Survey, especially if you are an effective altruist but you’re welcome to take it even if you’re not. Clever ideas: pay a small amount of money for cigarette butts picked up. “In just a few … Continue reading