Monthly Archives: November 2015

Mild mild west

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Light palm facebulb moment

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Vegetable stock

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/12982/basic-vegetable-stock/

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Distorted Godwin’s Law

http://www.salon.com/2010/07/01/godwin/

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Bogus crime wave

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/19/9758276/ferguson-effect-crime-wave

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Mid-Atlantic accent

http://good-mag.co/OldTimeyTalk

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The myth that welfare corrupts the poor

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/the-myth-of-welfares-corrupting-influence-on-the-poor.html?_r=0&referer=

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Bayesian statistics

http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/11/learning-to-love-bayesian-statistics.html?m=1

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: the comic book

I never used to like this poem. Now I do.  

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Happy (day after) 200th birthday, George Boole

The namesake of the Boolean data type. He took his profession as a schoolteacher seriously, and developed all sorts of surprisingly modern theories about the importance of understanding and discovery (as opposed to rote memorization), and the value of tangible … Continue reading

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