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June 19, 2009
m_francis @ 2009-06-18T22:37:00
James Chastek over at Just Thomism had an interesting post today about the futility of demanding proof of everything. thomism.wordpress.com/
[They say everything must be demonstrated:] because of apaedeusiam, i.e. lack of proper education or lack of sound learning. For it is a lack of proper education tht makes a man not know what things he must seek a demonstration of, and what things not, for all things cannot be demonstrated. For if all things might be demonstrated,
June 18, 2009
m_francis @ 2009-06-18T16:48:00
• "City: Workers Must Wear Underwear"--headline, WKMG-TV Web site (Orlando, Fla.), June 18
• "Man Steals $1,000 Worth of Underwear From Clothesline"--headline, FoxNews.com, June 18
Hey, Wait a Minute....
• "9,200 Uncounted Vials Found at Army Biodefense Lab"--headline, Associated Press, June 17
June 17, 2009
m_francis @ 2009-06-17T19:11:00
A bit of a snippet, from the chapter "The Freedom of Choice." The thoughts are the harper's.
It is the nature of man to be selfish, Mother had said. (And Méarana remembered a much younger self, sitting by Bridget ban’s knee before a great fierce fire in Clanthompson Hall, while certain wounds of her mother healed.) It is a weakness passed down from our uttermost ancestors, the original sin from which all others arise. It emanates from the ancient brain stem and spreads
m_francis @ 2009-06-17T13:53:00
Seven Rules for Reporting Polls and Research Results
by Steven S. Ross, February 11, 2008
Posted at: Stats.org
stats.org/stories/2008/seven_rules_ross_feb7_08.html
These are points that Ross gave to students in a Journalism school on the reporting of polls and research.
1. In general, effects are small. So you need a lot of statistical power
That means you need a large sample sizes and information on possible confounders – things that can change the results being reported, if they are not
m_francis @ 2009-06-17T10:32:00
Speaking of the Great Books...
www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/06/16/oh-how-i-hate-ulysses-a-bloomsday-rant/
Joe Carter writes:
[Yester:]day marks the 105th anniversary of Bloomsday, a commemoration of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce’s Ulysses. For at least the past fifty years, fans of the notoriously difficult novel have gathered around the world in order to drink, dress up and celebrate their status as the literary
June 16, 2009
m_francis @ 2009-06-15T22:18:00
The September issue of Analog just showed up today. [September? Go figure.:] In its "In Times to Come" feature, it reports that the cover story for the October issue [on sale, July 28:] will be my very own "Where the Winds are All Asleep," an Irish Pub story which starts with the Chordettes version of Mister Sandman and ends up with Babylonian cosmology. Woo-hoo. The mags don't do many covers for stories these days, so this counts as an honor. The cover is to be
June 13, 2009
m_francis @ 2009-06-13T16:13:00
This is the watercolor sketch for the cover. There will be a waterfall in the back.
The perceptive among you will realize that, given the waterfall in the background, the ship is actually heading down the river, not up.
I don't know if the final cover will look like this.
I'm trying to find the name of the artist.
m_francis @ 2009-06-12T21:18:00
A web site calling itself "The Art of Manliness" listed the 100 must-read books, "the essential man's library." The entire list is here:
artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/
The first 25 listees are:
The Prince by Niccolo MachiavelliSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutThe Republic by PlatoThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeBrave New World by Aldous Huxl
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