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Political Disagreement is a Bad Reason to Unfriend 0
- Culture
- May 9, 2017
I have an interesting meeting next week. A young woman in my community is working very hard on a set of policy suggestions for environmental measures, and she wants a libertarian perspective on the ideas she has drawn up. So we’re going to get together over coffee and talk about her plan and about what
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College Majors that Report the Highest Underemployment 0
- Education
- May 9, 2017
Forbes recently ran an interesting article that analyzed college degree programs and underemployment. The article was based on a survey released by PayScale, which collected data from nearly one million workers between March 2014 and March 2016. Here are the 12 majors that reported the highest rates of underemployment (a situation in which someone is
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Climate Scientists: Using Confirmation Bias When Data Doesn’t Match Theory?0
- Politics
- May 9, 2017
There’s been a small gaggle of news stories about a new paper by Iselin Medhaug and colleagues in the May 4 issue of Nature that concludes that climate models are just fine and their sensitivity to carbon dioxide is spot-on. If one adjusts the data observed during the balance of the “hiatus” in warming, by filling
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What Anne Shirley Teaches about Dealing with Victimhood 0
- Culture
- May 9, 2017
Almost every reader has a small, select group of favorite books which have been read enough times to make the quotation of whole passages possible. For me, that group of books includes the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery. This penchant for Anne caused me to sit up and take notice when reviews
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Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey 0
- Politics
- May 9, 2017
The Associated Press is reporting that President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. Politico has more: “President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey – a move that comes as the FBI is probing potential contacts between Trump’s campaign aides and Russian officials ahead of the election. ‘The president has accepted
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Study Suggests Lack of Reading Driving Contentious Society 0
- Culture
- May 8, 2017
It’s a commonly accepted fact that reading offers far more cognitive benefits than watching television. This is largely because television is a more “passive” activity, while reading goes deeper, encouraging greater thought and fostering verbal communication. But a recent study out of Kensington University in London suggests that the advantage of choosing reading over television
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