Category Archives: sciences

links without comment

Barlow v TSA (password-protected) (thanks Sunah) Tasteless Screeners Awards Gun Grabbers Say the Damnedest Things! School as prison What is Too Human? The ethics of human-animal chimeras An Indian’s Thanksgiving Proposal Give ’em what they want: more government

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if only you believed in miracles

Travis found a choice rant by Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek: But the bluest blue-state left-“liberal” atheist oughtn’t be too quick with the self-congratulatory praise of his or her own rational faculties. Most left-liberals are pure creationists when it comes … Continue reading

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guess what

Travis doesn’t like “bioethicists” either.

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Randome

Dick Fischbeck has a new website for a kind of structure that he calls Randome, formed of overlapping shallow cones.

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heard on the wind

Gary Becker and Richard Posner have a blog (any day now)

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three extropian items

Mike Linksvayer attended a lecture on “Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the Twentieth Century”. Perry Metzger shares a report (pdf) on infrastructure in Somalia. (Later: Michael Tennant comments on it at Strike The Root.) … Continue reading

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all of you, you’re nothing but random seeds!

On BART today, a fellow passenger saw me making notes on paper and occasionally looking up, and got the idea that I was taking statistics on the passengers. No, I said, I’m doing math for my own entertainment. He sat … Continue reading

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