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Crooked Timber
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made
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South Ossetia
It's not every morning I'm sipping my coffee, click onto BBC news, and the first thing out of my mouth is "oh, f**k!". Absent any deep analysis, it is just horribly, horribly worrying that Russia has invaded South Ossetia. We can spend any amount of time on the rights and ...
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Why Olympics coverage in the U.S. sucks
I thought I’d get this rant out of the way before the season hits. Watching the Olympics in the US is no fun, because the only thing you can watch is Americans winning. You’d think the U.S. is the only country ever winning from the coverage. Don’t get me ...
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Working women hurt their families
A "study":http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008080601 conducted by sociologists from Cambridge University seems to suggest that the support for working mothers is weakening. The researchers compared survey results from the 1980s till recently, and found "growing sympathy for the old-fashioned view that a woman's place is in the home, rather than in the office", ...
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Ref checking
Having just agreed to review a manuscript for a journal, I was greeted with this message:
When viewing the article online we recommend that you view the HTML version of the article. If the author used EndNote (or, beginning in the fall of 2007, Reference Manager) for reference management, the article ...
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Wanting not to get what you want
I'm guessing that there's already a ton of papers about a certain sort of second-order desire, so people can tell me in comments .... The sort I have in mind is the following: I, trivially, want my desires to be satisfied. But over the course of a life, I want ...
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