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• Tracking Public Mood in the English Language World – Reaching a Peak/trough in...

  The drop over the last four days amounts to as much as: 3 times the positive bump of a typical Thanksgiving, or 1.5 times the usual Christmas spike. Read more

  6 hours, 55 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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• Tremors [Media Notes 35]

  I saw the film on TV years ago and have been looking for it ever since. It’s now on Netflix. It’s as (weirdly) good as I remember. Not GREAT I suppose, but... Read more

  9 hours, 10 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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• Convince Me There’s A God: The New Testament Part 12

  

  Written by faithandselfdefense I’m answering a question often asked of me by atheists – What would move a strong atheist to become a strong theist? Read more

  The 05 june 2020 by   Mmcgee
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• Space Travel and American Myth – "Whitey on the Moon”

  Marina Koren, The False Hope of an American Rocket Launch, The Atlantic, June 3, 2020 Over the weekend, SpaceX flew two astronauts to the International Space... Read more

  The 05 june 2020 by   Bbenzon
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• Physicists Are Still Lost in Math

  What's up in the foundations of physics? As some of you may know, Sabine Hossenfelder published Lost in Math in which she argued that the foundations of... Read more

  The 05 june 2020 by   Bbenzon
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• Space Force, WTF?! [Media Notes 34]

  To paraphrase a cliché about Los Angeles, Space Force is a bunch of gags and other incidents in search of a story. Here’s how Wikipedia introduces it: Space... Read more

  The 05 june 2020 by   Bbenzon
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• Josephine Baker Born on 3 June 1906

  The amazing Josephine Baker was BOTD in 1906. For her courageous efforts against Nazi fascism she earned the rank of lieutenant in the Free French Air Force. Read more

  The 03 june 2020 by   Bbenzon
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• Collective Effervescence – Bonding, Loud Music, Party Girls, and the Club...

  Tyler Cowen interviews Ashley Mears, a former fashion model turned academic sociologist, author of Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party... Read more

  The 03 june 2020 by   Bbenzon
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• Irises

  

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  The 03 june 2020 by   Bbenzon
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• Showdown at the AI Corral, Or: What Kinds of Mental Structures Are...

  

  There’s a big conversation going on in the AI world these days about appropriate architectures: Can new-style machine-learning/neural-net methods take us all th... Read more

  The 03 june 2020 by   Bbenzon
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