"Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon."--Sugata Mitr
Men are becoming the second sex in U.S. graduate education:
a) men are underrepresented in graduate school enrollment overall (100 men were enrolled in 2017 for every 137.5 women), b) men received fewer master’s
(less than 43% of the total) and doctoral degrees (47% of the total) than women in 2017 and c) men were underrepresented in 7 out of 11 graduate fields of study at both the master’s and doctoral levels last year.
We Barr Body negative social justice warriors are waiting for Title IX intervention.
Who is...Proteus?
A study, by Harvard researchers and published in the energy research journal
Joule,
found if the country relied entirely on wind power for energy, the average temperature in the continental United States would climb by almost a quarter of a degree Celsius. Keep in mind that eliminating all CO2 emissions from electricity generation would,
as most, cool temperatures by 0.1 degree Celsius. In other words, wind power would more than offset whatever gains came from drastic cuts in carbon emissions.
Ineluctable:
incapable of being evaded; inescapable:
an ineluctable destiny
“Proteus,” the third episode of
Ulysses, opens with the beautiful but opaque “Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if
no more, thought through my eyes.” At least the word ineluctable is easy to analyze, if not the entire
sentence. Ineluctable comes directly from Latin
inēluctābilis “from which one cannot escape,” which consists of the negative or privative prefix
in-, roughly “not” (from the same Proto-Indo-European source as English
un-).
Ēluctārī is a compound verb meaning “to force one’s way out”; it is formed from the prefix
ē-, a form of the preposition and prefix
ex,
ex- “out of, from within” used only before consonants, and
luctārī “to wrestle”; the suffix
-bilis is added to verbs and denotes ability.
Ineluctable entered English in the 17th century.
Going back further in time, there is the decision by the George W. Bush administration to go to war in Iraq based on the claim
that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Two years into the invasion, the American people
learned with absolute certainty that the claim was proven to be completely false.
So when do we start admitting how bad these guys are?
A
very different slant from William
Rainford, the dean of the National Catholic School of Social Service at the
Catholic
University of America: "Swetnick is 55 y/o. Kavanaugh is 52 y/o. Since when do senior girls hang with freshmen boys? If it happened when Kavanaugh was a senior, Swetnick was
an adult drinking with&by her admission, having sex with underage boys. In another universe, he would be victim & she the perp!"
He,
of course, suffered for this off-handedness.
“ H.R. 6729 would allow financial institutions, federal regulatory bodies, nonprofit
organizations, and law enforcement to share customer bank records between them without running afoul of rules regarding consumer privacy and without opening themselves up to lawsuits. Ostensibly, this would be done "in order to better identify and report potential
human trafficking or money laundering activities." But these entities need not demonstrate that the "sharing was made on a good faith basis," according to the current text of the bill.--Eliz. Brown
"The more remote a memory is in time, the less reliable it tends to be, partly because of decay and partly because recalled memories can be corrupted by new information. New and old memories
can be conflated, sometimes emerging as totally false memories. Memories can be warped by leading questions from therapists, lawyers, journalists or others.
My colleague Elizabeth Loftus was able to “implant” false memories in a significant subset of laboratory subjects by showing them an official-looking poster of Disney characters, including
Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny. Many subjects later remembered meeting Bugs Bunny on a childhood trip to Disneyland. Some of them even reported that Bugs had touched them inappropriately.
That was impossible. Bugs Bunny isn’t a Disney character."--R. McKenzie
"Altered Carbon" was a disappointment. As with so much of science fiction, a very innovative idea backs the author into a corner,
sometimes several. The end of the story resolved plotlines I did not even know were plotlines. I don't know if it's worth watching the whole thing--the first half was very good--but Goldsberry's "Ain't no grave" rendition at the end was terrific. It is built
for a series, though.
3% of pro players are Samoan, the highest proportion of any subset. And they join the armed forces in the highest proportion as well.
Opponents of carbon based power never protest the main producer or the main consumer of carbon power, the State.
A company called TimeLooper has a headset with an app/vr for 12 historical moments in 12 different sites in the U.S..
Budweiser and Bud Light on Thursday said U.S. revenues fell 3.1% in the second quarter on the back of lower volumes, as both brands continued to lose market share. The weak performance
was a factor in the company missing overall sales growth forecasts, prompting shares to drop more than 5%.
Sales of the two brands have fallen as once-loyal American consumers shift away from domestic lagers toward craft beers, Mexican imports, wine and spirits.
In response, the company is trying to persuading consumers to buy more expensive beers, rolling out Michelob Ultra Pure Gold, made with organic grains, and Bud Light Orange, brewed with
real citrus peels. It also plans to launch pricey variants of Budweiser, including a beer aged on bourbon barrel staves, due to begin selling next month.
The Pope says the migrant crisis is the moral equivalent of the modern
bioethics question.
Golden oldie:
Palmer has an interesting defense of Libertarianism: "Just as the burden of proof is on the one who accuses another of a crime, not on the
one accused, the burden of proof is on the one who would deny liberty to another person, not the one who would exercise liberty."
Elin
Errson boarded a plane in Gothenburg, Sweden, Tuesday bound for Istanbul with a 52-year-old Afghan man on board who was being deported to Kabul.
She refused to sit down so the plane could not leave. She live-streamed herself protesting the deportation, so she is not only ethically superior to her culture, she's famous. If
everyone lights just one little candle on TV...
25% of stock trades occur in the last half hour.
Is it correct to say that someone being given Narcan therapeutically is getting a "wake up call?"
The House voted to “repeal the excise tax on medical devices, with nearly five-dozen Democrats joining all but one Republican in backing the bill.”
Passed in a 283-132 vote, the repeal undoes the “2.3 percent tax on some devices sold by medical manufacturers [which] was created under the Affordable Care Act.”
As
of July 20, 87 S&P 500 companies have released their 2nd quarter data. Of these companies, 83.9% surpassed
analysts' estimated results.
AAAAaaaaaannnnnndddddddd..... some charts:
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