Sir Michael Parkinson on George Best’s Alcoholism | Good Morning Britain
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Sully | Based on a True Story
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Ideology trumps science once again: Daphna Joel and Cordelia Fine deny the notion of “male vs. female brains”
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Cordelia Fine, a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Melbourne, has carved out a niche for herself by attacking the notion that there are any evolved and genetically-based differences between males and females. Her books have been best-sellers (Testosterone Rex won the Royal Society book prize), probably because her conclusions appeal to those of a certain ideology. But those conclusions are flawed (see here, for instance). Fine’s critiques of some studies purporting to show sex differences are often good, but they’re combined with misguided characterizations of other work as well as the ignoring of results that go against her men-and-women-are-pretty-much-the-same thesis. In other words, Fine is tendentious, not objective, and her claims must always be taken with a grain of salt.
This is all on view in her op-ed with Daphna Joel (a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Tel Aviv…
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North Korean Calculations behind the Blue House Raid and the USS Pueblo Incident
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: North Korea, South Korea
That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
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What Happens When A Movie Has No Script Supervisor? | Vanity Fair
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Climate Party! African Delegates Swamp Conference
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By Andrew Bolt ~
It’s a feeding frenzy at the UN climate conference. There’s the excuse for taxpayer-paid travel, of course, and the excuse to extort huge donations from the guilty rich:
An analysis of delegates by Carbon Brief found Guinea topped the list with 406 delegates, down 86 from last time. The Democratic Republic of Congo is second, with 237. Host nation Poland is third, with 211 delegates, followed by Ivory Coast, whose delegation this year has more than halved to 208 people…
Those huge delegations from these poor nations are actually down on last time? Wow.
Graham Lloyd puts it extremely diplomatically:
While some African countries give delegate tickets to non-governmental organisations, the make-up gives an indication of how important they consider the talks for securing development and mitigation funds.
Or as our Environment Minister Melissa Price memorably said to a former Kiribati Prime Minister who’d come…
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Google and Facebook Cross “The Creepy Line”
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John Stossel highlights a very good movie that is out revealing how Google and Facebook cross The Creepy Line.
Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV | WIRED
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High ability robbers (e.g. remembers to have a gun, mask, getaway car) stay long in banks & are deterred by longer sentences @sst_nz
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in economics of crime, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
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