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Are gun suicides gun deaths?
Suicides make up 2/3 of all firearms deaths, but those deaths are probably not preventable by restricting access to guns.
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An American With a Gun Kills Students, Again
I have a two year old daughter, and I’m overwhelmed every time this happens with fear and anger. I teach at a university, and I feel special fear every time there is an active shooter reported, though I quickly cover it with bravado and statistical arguments. (There were two on my old campus in a…
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Arendt’s Considered View on Evil and its Banality
“It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never ‘radical’, that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is ‘thought-defying,’ as I said, because thought tries to…
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Kierkegaard on Assistant Professors
“Yes, you assistant professor, of all the loathsome inhumans the most loathsome….” “A ludicrous sullenness and paragraph-pomposity that give an assistant professor a remarkable likeness to a Holberg bookkeeper are called earnestness by assistant professors….” “When an assistant professor, every time his coattails reminds him to say something, says de omnibus dubitandum est [everything must…
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Monday Links, Accumulated
Fuck Nuance (Abstract: Seriously, fuck it.) Raising Children Without Religion May Be A Better Alternative, Suggests New Research. (One of the underlying studies suggests that “religious humanitarianism is largely expressed to in-group members” because “a strong religious in-group identity was associated with derogation of racial out-groups.”) The Green Street Project is a nice interactive thingie that gives you…
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Friday Links, Assembled
Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science: “Thirty-six percent of replications had significant results….” Swing Voter #BlackLivesMatter protests Mayor Bowser’s new policing policies. See also: Peter Levine on #BlackLivesMatter and Hillary Clinton. Visualizing Economic Complexity Interview with Matt Damon on The Martian.
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Links, Aggregated (Monday Edition)
Intuition can encourage opinions that are contrary to the facts. Press the space bar to load a new puppy. Antonia Malchik: Over the past 80 years, walking simply as a way to get somewhere, let alone for pleasure, has become such an alien concept to Americans that small movements towards making neighbourhoods and communities more…
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Links, Aggregated (Thursday Edition)
Social Perfectionism and Why Suicide Unfairly Impacts Men Science isn’t Broken: It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for “millions of lives may be about to change profoundly” The Chronicles of Prydain is the greatest fantasy series ever written Alternatives to Beats by Dre at every price point and…
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Links, Aggregated
Happiness studies say parenthood is bad for you. Probably this tells us more about happiness studies than happiness. Lisa Feldman Barrett: What Emotions Are (and Aren’t) Five Philosophy Books for Children Emily Oster: Everybody Calm Down about Breastfeeding (But see also) “Knowing whom to ask and also how to ask is also often more valuable than a detailed knowledge…