As you probably know unless you live in a cave, another chemical attack is alleged to have taken place in Syria on Tuesday, which killed several people in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. The New York Times published a story about…
Quanta Magazine explains how a retired German statistician, who used to work in the pharmaceutical industry, discovered a proof of a conjecture that statisticians had been unsuccessfully trying to prove for several decades, but was ignored because he didn’t send it to…
Brian Leiter talks about Laura Kipnis’s forthcoming book about her experience at Northwestern in 2015, when a frivolous Title IX complaint was filed against her after she wrote a piece about the sexual paranoia that, according to her, prevails in academia. (She wrote another essay…
Schumer announced last week that Democrats would filibuster Gorsuch’s confirmation, which is a remarkably stupid decision. Since he was nominated in replacement of Scalia, Gorsuch wouldn’t fundamentally change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court. This means that, if Schumer…
Avik Roy, whose columns I recommend if you’re interested in health care policy, debunks the myth that Americans have a poor life expectancy. As he notes, this claim is often used to argue in favor of socialized medicine, but it’s false. The New…
After CGSU lost the election about unionization at Cornell, Randi Weingarten, the president of the AFT and basically a cancer in human form, is whining because she thinks the election wasn’t fair. In her statement, she says that the AFT is…
Cordelia Fine just published her latest book, which has received extremely positive reviews in various newspapers. I haven’t read it yet, but judging from what the reviews say, I suspect it’s not as good as the reviewers think. In addition…
It seems that graduate students at Cornell rejected unionization. At the moment, 919 students voted against it, while only 856 voted in favor, but 81 ballots remain unresolved. Since that’s enough in theory to flip the election, the Arbitrator refused to call…
In one week from now, graduate students at Cornell will vote to decide whether they want to be represented by Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU), in which case this group will gain the exclusive right to negotiate the terms and conditions…
According to HIS Jane’s, Russia, which as everybody knows is intent on subjugating the world, recently announced that it would cut military expenditure by 25% in 2017, after several years of increase. But Mark Galeotti argues on his blog that it’s exaggerated.…