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November 16, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Minority Report
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Annnnnd now I'm kicking myself for missing a pun on the word minority.
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November 15, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Troll Toll
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How does this never come up in fairy tales?
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November 14, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - How to Spot a Physicist
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I searched on google, and apparently these exist.
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November 13, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Why I Couldn't Be a Math Teacher
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If I were you, I'd focus less on algebra and more on seeking public office.
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Hey geeks of London and MIT! We're just starting to get the ball rolling on next year's shows, and submissions are now open. Both shows will be open theme!
November 12, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - John Searle's Last Words
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Eventually, I'll have enough John Searle comics to release a collection.
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November 11, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - One Wish
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Leprechauns give one wish, genies give three. How come no gives two wishes?
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November 10, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Work/Life Balance
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The important thing is to find the low low bar that works for YOU.
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November 9, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humans are Special
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Wednesday Goddamn Book Reviews
Words on the Move (McWhorter) [image error]
John McWhorter is a national treasure. This is a quick book giving a number of interesting explanations of ways language changes over time, as well as ways in which people have lamented its change over time. It’s not a controversial concept among linguists, but it bears repeating to the wide world, and in any case, McWhorter does it so well.
Power to Save the World (Cravens)[image error] This is going to be my default “here’s the argument in favor of nuclear power” book for people who are willing to spend some brain power doing their research. The one big flaw is that she underestimated the speed at which renewables would rise. I don’t think this negates any of the arguments she makes, but there are a few sections in the book that won’t age well.
The Language Hoax (McWhorter)[image error] Another great McWhorter book. This is a rejection of the public understanding of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which (in short) states that the structure of a group’s language has a great influence on their way of viewing the world. McWhorter argues that, in fact, the structure of language is more or less random between groups. A delightful bit of curmudgeonly scholarship, more or less saying “linguistics is really interesting without this bullshit thing everyone in pop science seems to believe!”
November 8, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Transcendence
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STOP READING COMICS AND GO VOTE
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GO VOTE
November 7, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Star Trek Problem
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I'm a doctor, not a nihilist!
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