Category Archives: News
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 09/11/2011
Anti-Natalism This may be a solution to anti-natalism. Education Do you need extra help? No worries. There are various people with virtual office hours to help you out. Epistemology How to change people’s minds. (now in blogroll) Politics Statistically, you … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 09/03/2011
Economics Some interesting correlations between the aftermath of hurricanes and an decrease in the birth rate. However, tropical storms show a correlation in an increase in the birth rate. Expect a small baby-boom after Hurricane Irene in the upper East … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 08/28/2011
Arts Wow! The photo below was made by this camera: Economics A revealing study shows that economic declination is inversely proportional to the length of women’s skirts. In other words, when wealth declines, the girls skirts get shorter. Philosophy Plato may … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 08/20/2011
Economics Fantastic site for those who (like me) have a hard time visualizing economics. An example is: Warren Buffett says to stop coddling the super-rich. Interesting research showing that poor people are against redistribution of taxes if the people below them are … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 7/9/2011
A lot of stuff has been happening. Let’s check it out: Sex In the New York Times, Dan Savage talks about different forms of relationships in an interesting article about how non-monogamous relationships may not be so bad. Keep things honest! … Continue reading
Individual Houses Make Their Own Levees
The title says it all. You can check out this gallery to see individual houses with their own levees. Pretty cool!
Guess Who’s Coming to Marquette University?
I’ll give you a clue. They have gone to the courts a lot, and they hate fags gay people. Give up? Here’s your next clue. Yes, it’s the Westboro Baptist Church. Why do you ask? The mother of Matthew Shepard, … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 12/20/2010
Economics An interesting article arguing that tax cuts do NOT create jobs. The argument uses something simple: math. Now there’s some facts you can’t dispute with. Steven Landsburg has an interesting libertarian argument saying that if you’re against the health … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 11/28/2010
Relationships and Sexuality In the Time Magazine this week, the headline cover was Who Needs Marriage? The results are quite interesting: the more educated and wealthy you are, the more likely you get married. Here are some more interesting stats … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 11/14/2010
Science: The Large Hadron Collider has created a “mini big-bang” which will give scientists a better understanding of the universe. Check out some of the strangest 10 facts about the universe. My favorite is number one: Gödel’s incompleteness theorems still … Continue reading
