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There are a lot of guys who drank Bud Light and read Sports Illustrated who changed both habits for the same reasons. It's about the circulation change you'd expect if Mother Jones hired Bar…

Thank you for the thoughtful response. I quite like this story and admire your response to your tragedy. I reacted less well to the garden variety death of a parent. For you just to not be functionall…

Maybe it has something to do with their change in editorial direction? https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/29/the-sports-... …

Probably true. I think there's a case for Ptolemy being an originator of separating data from intuition, even if his planetary model didn't reflect it. Moving our intuition away from the cen…

In terms of the relativity of our frames of reference. We can't even measure time on a clock or the length of a pace and declare it to be valid for anyone that has followed a different space-time…

Our science journey has been about gradually moving humanity away from the center of the universe. Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, et. al., taught us that we're part of nature rather than a pr…

Here's someone making the exact opposite recommendation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38835731

My < $10 purchase was a bottle of black fingernail polish. I used it to paint over the little red light on my bedside cordless phone, recharging bluetooth headset, etc. In bed at night I can't…

> These findings provide evidence of differences in brain responses to texts presented in print and digital media, including deeper semantic encoding for print than digital texts. I wonder if the e…

Great story. I'd be sorry to convict this guy if I'm on a jury and maybe wouldn't. The father would probably be quite happy to die in prison if the result is a live son. Maybe there was…

I'd guess that this isn't quite reciprocal, and attractive males would receive more honesty from both sexes. It's a shame that the study wasn't symmetrical.

> Any judge is free to veto governance. That's the teeth in the separation of powers. If you prefer more centralized decision making or a less limited democracy, you probably see that as a bug…

> The biggest problem is theft. Not only is it easy to steal from self-checkout machines, it can be hard not to steal from them. This is me. At a Walmart this weekend the machine booped instead of …

How can an affiliate link not be in conflict with an unbiased review? They don't get paid if they don't recommend the thing.

"Although we do not find meaningful increases in ideological extremity of recommendations, we show that a growing proportion of recommendations deeper in the recommendation trail come from extrem…