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<\/p>\nNo backlog of links from this morning or yesterday, so I’m sitting down right now (4:30pm PDT) and surfing all my favorite website to see what jumps out. …Posting at 5:20pm.<\/p>\n
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Slate, Marissa Martinelli, 15 Sept 2022<\/strong>: Deep Space Whine<\/a>, subtitled “There\u2019s a war over what\u2019s ‘the real Star Trek.’ It\u2019s highly illogical.”<\/p>\n I haven’t kept up on all these shows, and so am not particularly interested in this controversy. I did find Strange New Worlds<\/em> moderately interesting, and The Orville<\/em> is OK to good. Both attempt to recapture the flavor of the original show, which most of the intervening shows, and movies, have neglected.<\/p>\n \\\\<\/p>\n Salon, Chauncey DeVega, 16 Sept 2022<\/strong>: How the Big Lie poison continues to spread \u2014 and why it’s getting worse<\/a>, subtitled “Reason and truth will never defeat the Big Lie \u2014 its supporters are waging a religious war against democracy”<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Vox, Alex Abad-Santos, 16 Sept 2022<\/strong>: Are weather apps lying? The truth is in the dew point.<\/a>, subtitled “Not all 75\u00b0F days are created equal.”<\/p>\n How in some circumstances the dew point is more meaningful than the actual temperature.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n The Week, Theara Coleman, 16 Sept 2022<\/strong>: 9 books to read this fall<\/a><\/p>\n It always baffles me what criteria people use to compile lists like this. Books aren’t like movies; a dedicated movie fan can see virtually everything released, at least generally. No book selection will please everybody, or even anybody, except the compiler.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Boing Boing, David Pescovitz, 16 Sept 2022<\/strong>: Watch Marjorie Taylor Greene seemingly kick a gun control activist<\/a><\/p>\n Everyone needs more guns! Guns guns guns!<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n NYT:<\/strong><\/p>\n Lindsay F. Wiley<\/strong>: Extreme Religious Liberty Is Undermining Public Health<\/a><\/p>\n Euan Ward:<\/strong> U.K. Health Ministry Wants No Oxford Commas. Period.<\/a>, subtitled “The directive discourages the use of the contentious grammatical device, and also encourages employees to be ‘positive’ and to avoid ‘jargon.'”<\/p>\n Stephanie Nolen<\/strong>: Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us<\/a>, subtitled “His forthcoming book, ‘The Song of the Cell,’ part of what he says will be a quartet, is ‘fundamentally about understanding the units that organize our life.'”<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Washington Post, Dana Milbank, 16 Sept 2022<\/strong>: Putting the \u2018big lie\u2019 to bed \u2014 in plush, luxurious comfort<\/a><\/p>\n About Mike Lindell.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Quillette, Robert C. Thornett, 15 Sept 2022<\/strong>: Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus<\/a>, subtitled “The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors.”<\/p>\n Statistics, at least a once-over-lightly course, should be required of everyone. Even high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No backlog of links from this morning or yesterday, so I’m sitting down right now (4:30pm PDT) and surfing all my favorite website to see what jumps out. …Posting at 5:20pm. Slate, Marissa Martinelli, 15 Sept 2022: Deep Space Whine, … Continue reading