Hey, do you love meteor showers as much as we do? Via nasa.gov: “The 2014 Geminid meteor shower is forecast to be a lively meteor shower with great views in the skies over Earth. The week of Dec. 8 is a good window for Geminid-watching, but the night of Dec. 13-14 is the anticipated peak. Best viewing will be in dark sky locations, away from city lights.“
These images appear in Scott Alexander’s blog post “The control group is out of control.” (By the way, props to Cliff for bringing Alexander’s important post to our attention.) Back to Alexander’s post. He writes (the last ellipsis is in the original):
The highest level of the Pyramid of Scientific Evidence is meta-analysis. But a lot of meta-analyses are crap * * * How do I know it’s crap? Well, I use my personal judgment. How do I know my personal judgment is right? Well, a smart well-credentialed person like James Coyne agrees with me. How do I know James Coyne is smart? I can think of lots of cases where he’s been right before. How do I know those count? Well, John Ioannides has published a lot of studies analyzing the problems with science, and confirmed that cases like the ones Coyne talks about are pretty common. Why can I believe Ioannides’ studies? Well, there have been good meta-analyses of them. But how do I know if those meta-analyses are crap or not? Well…
What would Borges say? Props to JiveMonkey for the pic.
That is the title of our latest paper — in which we offer a novel solution to the famous Trolley Problem from moral and legal philosophy — just published in the Drake Law Review Discourse. (You may also click directly on the image above to go directly to our paper.) The paper is “only” 19 pages long, including a one-page appendix, and is thus a very short paper by law journal standards … as all academic papers should be.
Hat tip to u/nsfwdreamer for posting this map of the world’s longest flights (via reddit).
So which of these four ghost strategies would you expect to have the highest kill rate? Hat tip to jackmcxp for sharing this tidbit with us via Imgur.
“And yet it moves …” This map depicts Pangaea, a massive super-continent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, with modern borders. Hat tip to the amazing Ada Swanson for the pointer.
Hopefully It’s Interesting.
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