Narrowing The Mind
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Aug 16 09by Patrick Appel Atheist Norm Geras puts Richard Dawkins claim that "imposing parental beliefs on children is a form of child abuse" in context: [E]ducating children involves, willy-nilly, the imparting of moral beliefs. This cannot be done without the presentation... Full story...
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Abusing Statistics
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 3 hours agoScience News reports on bad studies: “There is increasing concern,” declared epidemiologist John Ioannidis in a highly cited 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine, “that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published.
What Traditional Reviewers Miss
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 5 hours agoJason Kottke praises amateurs: [In mainstream reviews there's] little mention of whether a book would be good to read on a Kindle, if you should buy the audiobook version instead of the hardcover because John Hodgman has a delightful voice,.
"A Male Monkey With Broadband"
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 5 hours agoJonah Lehrer is disturbed how social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even blogs "quantify our social life" by counting friends, followers, and readers: [Because digital social platforms] exquisitely measure our place within the network, we know exactly who the.
Typosquatters
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 7 hours agoA study on websites that capitalize on bad spelling.
Too Smart To Be The Best
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 8 hours agoIlya Somin reflects on the compromise between broad interests and specialization. Somin quotes Magnus Carlsen, the youngest chess player to be ranked number one in the world.
Outing Sponge Bob
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 8 hours agoA tribute to gay and lesbian characters in children's television. Bonus Jim Henson character breakdown here.
A Disorder Of Choice?
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 9 hours agoSally Satel reviews Gene Heyman's new book on addiction: No amount of reinforcement or punishment can alter the course of an entirely autonomous biological condition.
How New Is Bloggery?
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 11 hours agoRobert Darnton reads old papers: To appreciate the importance of a pre-modern blog, consult a database such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online and download a newspaper from eighteenth-century London.
If Cable Dies
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 12 hours agoMax Fisher looks ahead: It's not hard to foresee a day when Americans come home and, using an Internet TV system that would probably look a lot like your DVR menu, queue up the latest situation comedy or key in.
Failed Foods
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 13 hours agoMeg Favreau remembers some of the worst:In 1994, Prepared Foods (“the industry's leading ingredient-oriented, food, beverage and nutritional product development publication”) came out with a piece in its Annual highlighting failed product launches from the previous 10 years.
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