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“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance - http://phnk.tumblr.com/post...
“We need a leader to champion improvements – a neurology tsar, if you like, backed up with a plan and a strategy. “When diabetes, cancer and stroke were assigned tsars, things really started to happen. People affected by neurological conditions are fed up with being at the bottom of the government’s ‘to do’ list. “It is time the Department of... - http://hphwd.tumblr.com/post...
From this paper. What you will learn in this course will bring you just a few hours away from building the same table. - http://phnk.tumblr.com/post...
Overall, the research reported here offers only limited support for viewing climate change as an important influence on armed conflict. - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...
“Les filles de la sécurité à Ben-Gourion sont des grandes malades et à en juger par leur comportement, Israël est un mélange de Kaboul, de Téhéran et des spécialistes des gender studies aux Etats-Unis.” (via Claude Lanzmann embêté à Tel-Aviv - Libération) - http://phnk.tumblr.com/post...
And this is why I am forced to be so mean. There are just a lot of people out there exerting significant influence over the political debate who are totally unqualified. The dilemma is especially acute in the political economic field, where wealthy right-wingers have pumped so much money to subsidize the field of pro-rich people polemics that the... - http://phnk.tumblr.com/post...
Sex is not the binary system we think it is, and we can’t go around making rules about what people can and can’t do based on what anatomy happens to be between their legs. So on top of the fact that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional, unnecessary, and downright petty, they are also terribly unscientific. - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...
(via Charles Murray [perhaps] does a Tucker Carlson, provoking me to unleash the usual torrent of graphs « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science) - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...
Joseph Blitzstein, teaching discrete and continuous distributions at Harvard University. The full course is available for free on iTunes. - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...
From a course in modeling by Scott E. Page (discover his work as soon as you get a chance to). During the video, he announces that 40,000-50,000 people have registered to this video course. - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...
Some readers were puzzled that you reported data for those who either strongly approve or strongly disapprove of the tea party movement. Could you say what share of respondents fall into that category and how each differs from the remaining subset of white respondents who neither strongly approve nor disapprove? - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...