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Saturday, February 22, 2025

The magic of French toast returns to New Savanna

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The USA doesn’t pay public school teachers enough

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Bayer, Patrick J. and Blair, Peter Q.. and Whaley, Kenneth, Does the United States Spend Enough on Public Schools?. Available at SSRN: http...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Claude 3.5 Sonata describes a Japanese maple in the Fall

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What’s in this photo? This image shows a Japanese maple tree (Acer palmatum) with striking red and burgundy-colored leaves. The leave...
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Friday Fotos: Table-top views

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I’ve gotten a new computer, my 10th since 1981

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I bought my first computer in the spring of 1981; took out a small bank loan to get it. It was a North Star Horizon. “A what?” you ask. A N...
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Sunrise in the old neighborhood [National Cleaners]

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On the explicit construction of cognitive ontology: From “salt” to “sodium chloride”

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I have long used the conceptual difference between “salt” and “sodium chloride” to illustrate the idea of conceptual ontology . Except for ...
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Graffiti obscured

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My mother and her sewing

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This tweet by Miriam Posner reminded me of my mother’s sewing skills, which were considerable: One thing my mom used to do every year is ...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Seeds of a new world?

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Matt Yglesias: "America’s constitutional democracy is going to collapse." (2015)

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That's the opening sentence of an article Yglesias published in Vox in 2015, American democracy is doomed . The article continues: ...

Revision in the wild: SOL gets over

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America the Cruel: First the immigrants, then their neighbors, then your neighbors. When will it be your turn?

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This video of deportation is from the OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE account on X: ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight 🔊 pic.twitter.com/O6L1iY...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Peer review penalizes scientific risk taking.

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Pierre Azoulay & Wesley H. Greenblatt, Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking? Evidence from NIH Grant Renewals , NBER Workin...

Gulls taking off while a person consults their smart phone

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