According to CNN Money, Math is Racist. Wait? Math? The hyper-logical subject that we all agree (excepting philosophers) is not subjective is capable of having a racial prejudice? Sounds like a load of crap! That’s the bait. And it’s worked. By which I mean it seems to be completely ineffective. The article itself is a…
A Recovering Alcoholic Narrates Her Midlife Crisis, I’m an Asshole to Her in My Head
There’s no factual information to come away with here. This is purely a “journey, not the destination” essay. HOWEVER, Tl;dr: headlines are often not written by the same people who write the article, but they can substantially alter your prejudices about how you go into a piece of writing. In my daily routine of trawling…
My Personal Feelings on the Johnson/Weld CNN Town Hall
Journalist and writer Liana Kerzner has been kind enough to shoot the shit with me on Twitter from time to time. You should check her stuff out (she has a website and YouTube channel–at the very least, check out her “Gamer’s Guide to Feminism” videos). I endorse her as a competent writer and thinker. Anyway,…
Book Review: Dewey’s Experience and Education
Experience and Education is a short and sweet book by John Dewey (no, the library decimal system was created by Melvil Dewey, an unrelated man, although they lived basically at the same time) written towards the end of his career as a sort of “here’s how I see where we’re at” look at education at…
Brexit, Breximus, Brexitis: Britain Votes to Leave the EU
Although the final votes haven’t been counted at the time of this writing, the United Kingdom has voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. The European Union is a complicated thing. I’ll be damned if I’m summarizing it here at this late hour. You people can use Wikipedia. The very oversimplified summary of…
Profile of the Orlando Shooter
Now that the dust has settled, I can slake the still thirsty among you who want more juice on the Orlando nightclub shooting. My contention is that I already wrote about it. Here’s the profile on the killer. Here’s the discussion on guns. The articles could use some clean-up and tweaking, as any product seen…
Risk-Taking and Religion Part 4
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Part 3 here. Study 4: “We used a more targeted measure assessing the dimension of belief that we predicted to be relevant to the current effect—attachment security. Individuals who are more securely attached to God perceive God as a better source of security and protection (Kirkpatrick & Shaver, 1992)….
Risk-Taking and Religion Part 3
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Study 3: “Across five studies, priming God increased people’s willingness to take nonmoral risks. In Study 3, we tested our hypothesis that this effect occurs because reminders of God lead individuals to perceive themselves as protected—that is, that the risks present less danger.” For this experiment they went back…
Risk-Taking and Religion Part 2
Part 1 here. “Study 2 was a field experiment in which we posted ads to a social-networking Web site and recorded click-through rates…. We launched six advertisements for 1 day each on a social-networking Web site in a 2 (God vs. no God) × 3 (immoral risk vs. nonmoral risk vs. no risk) design. The…
Risk-Taking and Religion Part 1
Or, Business majors find people willing to risk retinal damage for a fucking quarter He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.-John 21:6, ESV…