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• Omri On Larry Greenfields Claremont Institute BEDROCK Podcast, Part I

  
  Mere Rhetoric — Authority: 544
  Some of you might remember friend-of-the-blog Larry Greenfield from the election, when the Obama campaign banned surrogates from debating him after he wiped the floor with the first few opponents. Others might recall him as the target of arguably the single dumbest smear in the history of the National Jewish ...
  6 hours ago

• Scholars, beware!

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 128
  Academics young and old are laughing with various degrees of heartiness at this Simpsons clip:
  7 hours ago

• Debunking Briffa’s Version of the Hockey Stick

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 770
  Among the most ethically challenged of the scientists at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia is Keith Briffa. A couple of months ago, the Bishop Hill blog retold in detail the sad story about Briffa’s own version of the Hockey Stick, which he was able to keep alive by his attempts to ...
  10 hours ago

• Do you ever feel like this?

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 673
  Fellow, sometime-and-in-some-fashion, academics or others dabbling in paper writing? Dixon looked out of the window at the fields wheeling past, bright green after a wet April. It wasn’t the double-exposure effect of the last half-minute’s talk that had dumbfounded him, for such incidents formed the staple ...
  16 hours ago

• What Children Need

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 671
  I was at the University of Wisconsin at Madison this week, and was very lucky that Jane Waldfogel was giving the A. Kahn Memorial lecture on Thursday. She gave a fascinating talk on developments in comparative social policy studies, and also discussed her forthcoming book on Britain’s war on child poverty. I’m ...
  18 hours ago

• The Sublime Funk of Cornel West

  
  The Valve — Authority: 497
  
  18 hours ago

• On Science and Politics

  
  Asymptotia — Authority: 127
  No doubt youve been aware of the recent debate that has been raging about whether or not the scientific case for climate change has been exaggerated by various scientists, in the light of the content of a long series of emails. Its all over the news, and so I am sure I dont need to point to all the news stories, ...
  19 hours ago

• I like the direction this is going in.

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 671
  How to follow up a sublime and funky thread that has established four new internet traditions and killed at least two performers of Franz Schubert’s tempestuous piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat (D.960)? By having Catherine and Heathcliff audition for Twilight , that’s how.
  22 hours ago

• [JoCI] Information Society Free Virtual library - first 5,000 texts

  
  Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD — Authority: 127
  Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:24 AM To: joci-editorial@vancouvercommunity.net Subject: [JoCI] Information Society Free Virtual library - first 5,000 texts Dear colleague, I am glad to inform you that the Edelstein Center for Social Research has launched a virtual library on the Information Society: ...
  1 day ago

• Weimann: Oops, Better Retract

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 137
  The new issue of Bruce Hoffman’s Studies in Conflict and Terrorism carries a retraction: The abstract of the article by Gabriel Weimann and Katharina von Knop titled “Applying the Notion of Noise to Countering Online-Terrorism,” published in vol. 31, no. 10 (October 2008) of Studies in Conflict and ...
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• Global warming, cap and trade, a giant hoax, a giant power grab.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 132
  Global Warming For Dummies in 1:21 seconds…. Liberty and Tyranny: Bachmann Warns Against Cap-and-Trade Cap & Trade will DESTROY the middle class Stop the New World Order — Global Warming is a Hoax Climate has been changing since the beginning of this earth, it is changing now ...
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• Test to Failure

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 128
  Yesterday I ran across an article in the feeds of some research done at U Haifa and U Michigan. [Link] The research used some standardized methods to estimate the competitiveness among students taking tests. The primary variable was the size of the group locally taking the test. The surprising – according to the ...
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• Where are the Women? Pretty sparse (just one woman co-author!) in the last Georgetown L.J. and none at all in the recent Virginia L. Rev.

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 139
  98 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL, NO. 1, NOVEMBER, 2009. Jacobi, Tonja and Matthew Sag. Taking the measure of ideology: empirically measuring Supreme Court cases. 98 Geo. L.J. 1-75 (2009). [ H ][ L ][ W ] Oman, Nathan B. A pragmatic defense of contract law. 98 Geo. L.J. 77-116 (2009). [ H ][ L ][ W ] Pfander, James E. ...
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• Kevin Jennings, “Safe Schools Czar” and child porn advocate?

  
  DPGI - the aftermath — Authority: 139
  Just great, another person close to the president is found to be unfit for the job they have been assigned in the Obama administration.Via Gateway Pundit: Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom – Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN Reading ListScott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com ...
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• staying away from the grindstone

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 519
  I’ve been asked to write a bunch of letters of recommendation this semester.  Engaging in this exercise brought back to mind an amusing debate that I had with Fabio in what seems like a thousand years ago. In this exchange Fabio defended—what I still think is the hopelessly naive—proposition that using terms ...
  1 day ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  Literature is mostly about sex and a little about having children. Life is the other way around.-- unattributed We currently have the best politicians money can buy. I suspect it might be conducive toward better governance should this channel of undue influence be severed. Can you disagree?-- Epicurean Dealmaker ...
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• WIP Talk Goes Car Talk

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 431
  Douglas Baird presents "Car Trouble" -- how the Chrysler and GM bankruptcy fit into the broader state of bankruptcy law.
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• Friday frivolity: whats this model doing on my desk?

  
  Adventures in Ethics and Science — Authority: 493
  To amuse you while I attend to work that needs doing, I offer a picture of an object on my desk at work. A couple of questions for you, dear readers: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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• Global warming, Copenhagen ant the New World Order. Massive fraud for one world governance.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 132
  Herman Van Rompuy and global governance. Herman Van Rompuy is the new president of the EU. He stated- “The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is another step forward towards the global management of our planet” He is also a frequent visitor at Bilderberg meetings. New EU president confirms New World Order ...
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• Who Needs Mathematicians for Math, Anyway?

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 129
  T he heart of the disagreement betweenprogressive math educators and mathematicians is whether students areacquiring a foundation in arithmetic and other aspects of mathematicsin the early grades that prepares them for authentic algebra courseworkin grades 7, 8, and 9. If not, they then cannot successfully completethe ...
  2 days ago

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