April 2011
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The FactCheck Blog - FactCheck: AV round-up – the... →
Brief corrective summary of misinformation in the referendum campaigns for and against changing the British voting system. Though I have to say that the misinformation from the No campaign is by far the most blatant and cynical.
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Is Reasoning Built for Winning Arguments, Rather... →
We may have evolved not to argue rationally, but to find arguments which will persuade others of our point of view.
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Is AV better than FPTP? « Gowers's Weblog →
Very thorough examination of the arguments about chainging the British voting system. The answer is, of course, that it is better. In many cases, it is possible to mathematically disprove the claims made by the No2AV campaign.
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Minimalist posters for mental disorders →
Do follow the link to see the others.
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iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go |... →
Yet another reason not to have an iPhone.
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Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have... →
A hyphothesis that the universe started off with only one space dimension then acquired more as it expanded. An observational test is suggested. Unfortunately, the test involves not detecting gravitational waves …
From ScienceDaily, April 20th 2011.
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The Inner Game of Music
Barry Green with W Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Music, Pan Books, 1987.
Not a book review, but some quick notes about the book.
The book is based on Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis. That one developed the idea that in playing tennis you are playing two games: the external one against your opponent, and the another against your own inner obstacles to playing well. The Inner Game of...
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An excessively long sentence
For though the narration and description, which is made by a great man with you;
that the descendants of Neptune planted there;
and of
the magnificent temple, palace, city, and hill;
and the manifold streams of goodly navigable rivers, (which as so many chains environed the same site and temple);
and the several degrees of ascent, whereby men did climb up to the same, as if it had...
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DailyTech - Scientists Discover Wild Solar Energy... →
Interesting idea which involves generating power from the magnetic rather than electrical component of sunlight. The article goes a lot further than the abstract for the research it refers to, though: it talks as though the effect has been observed and measured, whereas it was actually a computer simulation of the effect of light on electrons.
Also I’d trust the article a lot more if it...
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“People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have...”
– George Carlin (via jerzee55)
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Hyperbole and a half →
The frequently impossibly-funny blog of Allie Brosh.
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