A failure to communicate
Starting a competitor to your employer while on the clock using employer resources seems like a pretty good way to destroy your career before it starts.
Author: Vikram Bath
Mockingjay, Part 1
The Hunger Games movies do much to convince its audiences not to trust women with anything important.
What Ought a Young Girl Read?
Recommended reading lists are only histories of what worked for whoever constructed them.
Practical Shaving with a Double-edge Safety Razor
A double-edged safety razor is actually less fussy than the alternatives.
The Value of Playing with Commercially Produced Toys
The merits of playing with loose parts seems oversold.
If Your Customers don’t Understand Your Product, it’s Your Fault
Looking in vain for ChinesePod’s pedagogical philosophy.
Mean-centering Does Nothing for Multicollinearity!
Striving for sexy results is not the biggest problem in science.
Obama Didn’t Lie in 2008 About Marriage being Between a Man and a Woman
If you try hard enough, you can convince yourself that Barack Obama’s views on gay marriage really did “evolve” even though his personal feelings didn’t.
In which I become a Raging Social Conservative
If your plan for staying out of jail hinges on 14-year-old girl not lying, maybe you need to rethink your plans.
Lists of Fallacies Have an Important Shortcoming
Yet another Ordinary Times post addressing the tu quoque fallacy, or as I call it, the tu-quoque-fallacy fallacy.
Is it OK for Rich People to Shop at Thrift Stores like Goodwill and the Salvation Army?
Goodwill is not a place for poor people to shop. It’s a jobs program.
An EITC Increase Versus a Minimum Wage Increase
What are the pros and cons of Warren Buffett’s proposal to increase the earned income tax credit rather than increase the federal minimum wage?
Liveblogging my Reading of “If you’re a Conservative, I’m not your friend”
Some people are not happy with the UK election results.
