Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Conferences

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Conferences can be a bit humiliating. You go to learn what everybody else has done, and it usually sounds so exciting. (Not always--a coupl...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

Hezekiah

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Two things I hadn’t put together before, that appear in the NASB translation of Isaiah 39:8: Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word o...
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A little more Isaiah

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Maybe I should elaborate a little. Isaiah opens with chapters warning the proud, the corrupt, those who abandon the Lord, those who add hou...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Reactions

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When my reading cycle reaches Matthew 25 every six weeks or so, I fear for myself. When it reaches its annual visit to Isaiah, I fear for m...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Hiring bias

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A study hit the news a few days ago claiming that in STEM, if a candidate was a woman she had a 2:1 advantage over a man in the probability...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Travel advice

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I've not spent much time out east (a half day in DC, half day at Harvard, a visit to colonial Williamsburg back in '74). Right now ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Neanderthal pictures

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A Neanderthal apparently fell down into a cave and died, and his remains are embedded in stalactite formation along the wall . That first i...
Friday, April 17, 2015

School Discipline

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From Remarks by Bill Nye : Woodtick William's Story. We had about as ornery and triflin' a crop of kids in Calaveras county, thir...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

On the streets

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From an Atlanta Magazine article on Freaknik: Ryan Cameron was a DJ at V-103 and now hosts a morning show on the station. "I would g...

Pop country followup

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I looked at coarse patterns in subject of country and pop music , but these folks did a much more thorough study of "reproductive mess...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Smooshing

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A mathematician tries to use fluid dynamics to study shuffling : go read it. He got into Harvard on the recommendation of Martin Gardner.
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Monday, April 13, 2015

The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford

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I was one of those who didn't know anything about this, and yet it was a critical few months when fighters of Suleiman the Magnificent a...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Pop/country

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In sort-of recent political news, Ted Cruz announced that he was running for president. I didn’t listen to or read his speech, but I gather...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

How fast we forget

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The Wisconsin State Journal reported this afternoon that a woman had been threatened by two home invaders, one of whom pointed a gun at her ...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Gases

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I speculated on odors , but didn't do a literature search. "What the gases you emit say about you" looks like an interesting...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

Saving money on inessentials

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My son-in-law's Kia needed new brakes (very badly, it turned out), and I went over to see how he did it. The rotor was screwed to the w...

Incongruencies

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I'm leading(*) a series of studies on spiritual disciplines for a men's Bible study which meets in a diner for breakfast. This past...
Saturday, April 04, 2015

Luxury

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Middle Daughter told me the other day that George Takei had bought 4 tickets on SpaceX and was offering 2 for fans in a kind of lottery. I ...
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Memory

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After contemplating nostalgia I’m trying to mock up some kind of mental model of how my memory works. Your mileage may vary. A movie take...

Misconceptions

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This story about Special Forces concerns about bringing women into the teams is interesting. As integration unfolds, the surveys have brou...
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