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Problems in taxonomy (NBA finals edition): is this play a rebound or an assist?

WOW. đź‘‘ https://t.co/T2BjBdRvTJ — Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) June 10, 2017

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Problems in taxonomy (applied ethics edition): is Admiral Rogers a Humean or a Kantian?

A recent blog post by Dick Lipton and Ken Regan at Goedel’s Lost Letter (“Does logic apply to hearings?”) inspired me to write the post you are about to read. In brief, when the Director of the National Security Agency, … Continue reading →

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Problems in taxonomy (national politics edition): is Comey a courageous whistleblower or a cowardly backstabber?

One thing is clear about “L’affair Flynn“: former FBI Director James Comey wants to inflict maximal damage on President Trump for being fired from his post, but from a purely strategic perspective, shouldn’t Comey have stayed silent instead of “feeding … Continue reading →

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Racial map of Cuba

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Visualizing 6 June 1944 (D-Day)

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Internet time out

Heads up to our loyal followers: It’s our summer break, so we are hitting the pause button to take an “Internet time out” for the remainder of May and most of June. We will thus be blogging a lot less … Continue reading →

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Parking in D.C.

We love to walk around different neighborhoods whenever we visit a magnificent city like Washington or Havana. During one such walk, we could not help but notice the relative level of complexity of D.C.’s parking laws. 

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Vanity plate art

We discovered the work pictured below, created by artist Mike Wilkins in 1987, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (Now that we are back in the States, we will blog about our impressions of Havana in the next … Continue reading →

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Assorted Cuba links

1. Is it unethical for Americans to visit Cuba? (via Market Watch) 2. Luxury mall in Havana (via Slate) 3. Meet Cuba’s first internet entrepreneurs (via TechCrunch) 4. Cuba after communism (via Council on Foreign Relations) 5. Jacob Forever (via YouTube)

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