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Daily Archives: December 23, 2016
Immigrants & Psychotic Disorders
From the abstract of a 2005 paper, “Incidence of mental disorders in second-generation immigrants in Sweden: a four-year cohort study”: Second-generation immigrants with one parent born in Sweden and second-generation Finns had higher risks of being hospitalised for psychotic disorders, … Continue reading
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Mark Lilla vs. Campus P.C.
Our latest installment of the JAPCAT phenom is “Campus Identity Politics Is Dooming Liberal Causes, a Professor Charges” by Evan Goldstein. The day after the presidential election, Mark Lilla had to get something off his chest. “I wrote in a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture Wars, Political Correctness
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Pew: Europe’s Far-Right Anger Is Moving Mainstream
In Foreign Policy, Bruce Stokes, director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center, has a brief summary of Pew’s latest research on the subject of the Alt-Right in Europe (“Europe’s Far-Right Anger Is Moving Mainstream”): In the wake … Continue reading
Trump is only 6’2″!
Politico has a story today on DT’s height. He and his doctor say he’s 6’3″, but Politico has obtained a copy of his driver’s license which says he is only 6’2″! Scandal!
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Falsifiability Cartoon
Here is a swell little 90 second video distilling Karl Popper’s seminal notion of falsifiability.
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Return of the White Death
In “Return of the White Death: the threat of new strains of TB”, Drew Smith, a PhD molecular biologist at the University of Colorado, opines on new strains of tuberculosis (TB) rearing its ugly head. TB accounted for a quarter … Continue reading
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