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It is well known that even experienced scientists routinely misinterpret p-values in all sorts of ways, including confusion of statistical and practical significance, treating non-rejection as acceptance of the null hypothesis, and interpreting the p-value as some sort of replication probability or as the posterior probability that the null hypothesis is true … It is […]
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 11, 2026 by Tony Wikrent “A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation.” [TW: For a reason I shall explain, there were a number of posts this past week that struck me but I have not included all of them here. What struck me was the […]
Ahmed Bin Hassan, a Somali American, was defiant as more than a dozen masked federal agents harangued him about his accent.
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As Trump focuses the military on the Western Hemisphere, AFRICOM and other foreign commands could be consolidated.
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As the EU has sought to prolong the Ukraine proxy war, expropriate frozen Russian assets, and enlarge the bloc at any cost, Viktor Orban’s Hungary opposed it at every turn. Now, with his support teetering, leaked documents reveal a major EU official plotted a long-term covert campaign to oust him. A senior European Union official has been secretly seeking to remove Hungarian President Viktor Orban since at least 2019, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The files show […]
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The 2005 Doctor Who revival is the reason the series is a global success, and the streaming rights might be the key to who gets the show next.
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Americans have lived through enough U.S. military campaigns to be skeptical of Trump’s Venezuela policy from the start.
The post Americans Are Sick and Tired of Pointless Wars appeared first on The Intercept.
My Unbearable Politeness of Being It’s the same dilemmaevery year, I find,upon meeting a personfor the first time, for how longdoes wishing thema Happy New Yearremain de rigueur? Perhaps I blow thingsout of proportionbut I tend to erron the side of caution so I’ve alwaysHappy New Year-eduntil October the Third.
The company suing Greenland for the right to mine rare earth minerals has hired a lobbying firm deeply connected to the Trump administration, increasing the threat of US action against the territory. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! Energy Transition Minerals announced yesterday that it hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm run by Brian Ballard, a major donor and fundraiser for Trump, to assert what it says are its claims on the territory. Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with […]
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Connell, Raewyn. 2026. Should we abolish universities? (2025 E. L. Wheelwright Lecture). Journal of Australian Political Economy, no. 96, 149-161. This is the annual Wheelwright Lecture at the University of Sydney, on the state and prospects of universities.
Connell, Raewyn. 2026. Teachers' worth. Pp. 469-474 in Nina Bascia and Rhiannon M. Maton, ed., Handbook on Teachers' Work: International Perspectives on Research and Practice, New York and London, Routledge. A reflection on the research about teachers' work and its social significance, composed for an enquiry into teachers' wage rates and employment conditions.
The brains of macaques offer some clues
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The government’s about-face on alcohol limits follows a yearslong industry lobbying campaign.
“The galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets”
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Violent star blasts pointed to a huge cosmological surprise
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The Secret Service also said it had no records of its request to raise the water level of a river for JD Vance’s kayaking trip.
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