Data Colada
Thinking about evidence and vice versa.
By Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons.
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[122] Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on police behavior with about 40 outcome variables
A forthcoming paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), "A Cognitive View of Policing" (htm), reports results from a field experiment showing that teaching police officers to "consider different ways of interpreting situations they …
By Uri Simonsohn, 92 words
Time's Flow Stemmed
Wild reading….
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Thoughts on Flaubert’s Salammbo
Reading Salammbo often felt more like watching a film unfold—one with the unrelenting, chaotic intensity of an Aleksei German epic. Flaubert’s Carthage is a world rendered in overwhelming detail. It floods the imagination, leaving you …
This Space
"Perhaps the best resource in English on European modernist literature" – Irish Times.
By Steve Mitchelmore.
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Books of the year 2024
In order of being read. Giorgio Agamben – What I saw, heard, learned… One night, along Venice’s Zattere, watching the putrid water lap at the city’s foundations, I saw that we exist solely in the …
By Stephen Mitchelmore, 1,288 words
David Revoy
Artist, Instructor, using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.
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Warrior
Just wrapped up the cover illustration for my upcoming Krita brush bundle. It features a warrior, continuing the theme from my previous bundle. I had a lot of fun designing a medieval fantasy gothic look …
flowerville
ΜΗΔΕΙΣ ΑΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΣ ΕΙΣΙΤΩ.
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greater
a place of greater safety you thought and you hadn't read this but wanted to take it and that was how you felt when being driven home through nocturnal the hague, it was just like …
The Week in Women | an AWFJ blog
Features a wide range of articles, profiles and news roundups covering current affairs, personalities and events pertaining to women working in the movie industry.
By Brandy McDonnell.
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Season 2 of ‘Lucy Worsley Investigates’ coming to PBS
For more than two decades, Worsley served as the chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces in the U.K. She is the host of dozens of popular PBS specials and series as well as the popular …
By Brandy McDonnell, 68 words
The Incredible Inman
Writeups About Show Biz Stuff, Old-Timey and Otherwise.
By David Inman.
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Screen Capture Theatre: "Dillinger," or That Old Gangster of Mine
In the most exciting news since the introduction of the Pocket Catheter, it's time for another installment of Screen Capture Theatre! Here for your edification is the 1945 film...This is the hard-hitting, totally true, no …
(Re)Creating Yourself ˚୨୧⋆。˚ ⋆
By Krishna Sanguine Royal.
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The Brooks Review
About what draws my interest. My obsession with finding the what is best. Not ‘for most people’, the best thing I can find.
By Ben Brooks.
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Member Journal — 1/6/25
This week: note taking in 2025 — digital apps, and analog tools. It’s 2025 somehow, so that’s a thing all year apparently. You must be a member to read the rest of this article. (Already …
The Mental Elf
Keeping you up to date with reliable mental health research, policy & guidance.
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HRT associated with reduced risk of psychosis relapse in middle-age women
Laura Naysmith summarises a study of menopausal hormone therapy (also known as HRT), which suggests the treatment is linked with reduce the risk of psychosis relapse in menopausal women. The post HRT associated with reduced …
By Laura Naysmith, 59 words
Ken Shirriff's blog
Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever.
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how …
By Ken Shirriff, 7,585 words
laststandonzombieisland
Weapons, Wars, Preparation and Security from a recovering gun nut turned bad writer.
By Christopher Eger.
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A ‘full-fledged D-E sailor’
Short Cruise on a Destroyer Escort, By Ernie Pyle: “So now I’m a D-E sailor. Full-fledged one. Drenched from head to foot with salt water. Sleep with a leg crooked around your rack so you …
By laststandonzombieisland, 218 words
Waves of Devotion
The Writings and Realizations of Srila Dhanurdhara Swami.
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Monday Morning Greetings 2025 #2 – How Intellectuals Found God
In my senior year of high school, Joseph Zogby, my English teacher, asked the students to write an essay on Voltaire’s quotation, “If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.” Looking …
By Dhanurdhara Swami, 806 words
Eduwonk
Education News, Analysis, and Commentary.
By Andrew J. Rotherham.
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Jimmy Carter 1924-2024. Plus Rabbits and Fish.
I was going to keep posting light over the holidays and early January, with an ‘in and out’ list and things in that vein. But Jimmy Carter’s passing certainly occasions mention. First, though, in case …
The Scythe Association – Latest News
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Green Scythe Fair Championship Report 2024
Report written by Neil Gemmell and Richard Brown As a scything community we scythe enthusiasts/afficionados, some would even say addicts, all convene in a field in Somerset to hold the West Country Scythe Championships at …
By Richard Brown, 2,204 words