Always, but always, plot your data. Remember that data quality is at least as important as data quantity. Always ask yourself, “Do these results make economic/common sense”? Check whether your “statistically significant” results are also “numerically/economically significant”. Be sure that you know exactly what assumptions are used/needed to obtain the results relating to the properties […]
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For all that Iran has been mopping the floor with the U.S., Israel, and the Gulf States, things have come to a precarious point. While Iran has been mopping the floor strategically with the U.S., Israel, and the Gulf States, a Saudi-Pakistani military alliance could enter the fray on the U.S. side and make a […]
Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi on the "intense" pressure of playing the Twelfth Doctor and having to "become cheerful all the time."
Before I depart this world, I would like to visit St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland, and see the Jenny Geddes memorial. I’m told it’s open to the public. Why? What’s interesting about a stool? Well, it’s probably impossible to point to a single moment, or a single object, and say “The Enlightenment began here.”. […]
Trying to fix your self-image can trap you in the problem. The awe of nature truly heals by taking you outside of yourself
- by Céline Leboeuf
The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly
- by Mark Higgins
The investigative journalist and “Democracy Now!” host — and the subject of a new documentary — on why independent media is needed now more than ever.
The post Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil” appeared first on The Intercept.
Among other things, the unlamented former autocrat Viktor Orban was one of the leading proponents of pro-natalist policies, and more open than most about the racist underpinnings of his view. However, like others who have tried to raise birth rates, he wasn’t particularly successful. To understand why not, it’s useful to consider the question: how […]
How ideology and scandal inspired the idea of an all-powerful president.
Job Interview with a Cat Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you? The warmth, perhaps? The security? Or the power you must feel by rendering me useless? Feel free to expand if you wish. I see you have had experience of similar positions. Can you talk about a time when you got somebody’s tongue? Or were…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “lacks the competence” to review Trump’s campaign of deadly boat strikes, a State Department spokesperson said.
The post State Department Tells Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings appeared first on The Intercept.
A little-noticed Supreme Court ruling may be sending a message.
One theme connecting the essays is “enchantment” and its flight from societies such as our own. Modernity has given us countless things we would not want to be without, but its instrumental approach to nature and contempt for more established cultures has left us in many ways spiritually naked.
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Searching for a phrase that will encapsulate his philosophy, and channelling the ideas of Oswald Spengler and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Kingsnorth plumps for “reactionary radicalism”. Suffice it to say that by the end of his book the noun is firmly in the adjective’s shadow.
In 1848, a railroad worker survived a rod shooting through his skull. His accident transformed our understanding of the brain
- Video by the Royal Society and BBC Ideas
This short documentary asks what it means to be Sámi today, following decades-long state-mandated assimilation attempts
- by Aeon Video
To prevent dyslexia taking a toll on a child’s self-belief, follow these tips from a psychologist who’s been there herself
- by Lisa Rappaport & Jody Lyons
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity
- by Coreen McGuire & Alex Aylward
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This is Part 7 of the short series of briefing notes that arose out of discussions I recently had in London about how a progressive political party might want to break out of the shackles that the British Labour Party has bound itself in with its obsession with fiscal rules and an adherence to the…
The news from Hungary’s election is so good that I need to write about it, even if not all the implications are clear yet, and even in a disorganised and way, repeating lots of what others are saying. Although the polls predicted Orban’s defeat, nothing I read foreshadowed the scale of the victory – a […]
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