Random links
- Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion
- It should be noted that this is NOT a hidden-camera video - this is footage from a Florida legislature committee's session: "Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives a failed abortion should be left up to the woman seeking an abortion and her abortion doctor."
- Overstating the Costs of Inequality
- Is income inequality's impact overstated? An interesting (if somewhat long) argument...
- Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park
- "Researchers have long theorized that green spaces are calming ... [b]ut it had not been possible to study the brains of people while they were actually outside, moving through the city and the parks. Or it wasn’t, until the recent development of a lightweight, portable version of the electroencephalogram, a technology that studies brain wave patterns."
- Maybe academics aren’t so stupid after all
- An interesting part of a quote in the intro: "The highest percentage of well-formed sentences are found in casual speech, and working-class speakers use more well-formed sentences than middle-class speakers. The widespread myth that most speech is ungrammatical is no doubt based upon tapes made at learned conferences, where we obtain the maximum number of irreducibly ungrammatical sequences." The article gets somewhat into why this might be. I'd agree, to quote a later portion of the article that "When we academics were in graduate school, we were trained to write badly (no one put it this way of course)."