Friday Link Encyclopedia

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Clarissa

March 25, 2016

The sexual harassment case at Columbia is poisoned by the shadiness of the complainant. If you are trying to earn tenure at Columbia, you can’t sit on your ass for years expecting some pie-in-the-sky magical dataset that some Santa Claus will drop in your lap.

Finally, other people started writing about the dangerous radicalism of Illinois governor Rauner.

Gender segregation at the London School of Economics. Disgusting, shameful, and pathetic.

Banning credit checks harms African Americans because it makes racists too anxious.

A dialogue between an economist and an unemployed steel worker. Brilliant.

Academic publishing and the myth of linguistic injustice.

Rolling Stone endorses Hillary and explains why.

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17 responses to “Friday Link Encyclopedia”

Evelina Anville

March 25, 2016

I agree about the Columbia story. Obviously, if it’s true, some type of disciplinary action is in order: nobody should have to fend off unwanted sexual advances are inappropriate at work (or anywhere.)

But aside from above (obvious) point, I’m not sure why she seems to feel that the senior faculty member “owes” her this data set. From what I’m reading, he would have been within his rights to revoke her access for any reason– because it was Tuesday, or the sky was blue, or she spilled his coffee. What would she have done if he just didn’t feel like granting her access to this data? Or what would she had done if nobody in her department had this access? I find the whole story very strange

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xykademiqz

March 25, 2016

I opened the Columbia story and immediately cracked up at the image caption:
she is an assistant professor of finance and her name is Enrichetta!

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 26, 2016
  
  Good catch. 🙂
  
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cliff arroyo

March 26, 2016

The gender segregation at LSE is interesting in showing the weakness of what I’ve come to call the “Soft State” which is what many people hope will replace the Nation State.

The Soft State (name inspired by a comment at Marginal Revolution by Peter Schaeffer) is the idea that a society can simultaneously support human rights, political freedom, the rule of law, multi-culturalism, libertarian ideas, individual liberty and welfare benefits and survive.

The Soft State model works very well for rootless cosmopolitan elites and pretty crappily for everybody else and ultimately such a state will be unable to defend its borders or enforce its laws. It can be brutal against perceived enemies abroad (Greece, Libya though oddly not the Islamic State) but cannot say “No!” to anyone in its borders who claims victimhood.

A key problem is that rootless cosmopolitan elites like Nona Buckley-Irvine (the “feminist” quoted at the link) cannot even articulate, much less enforce basic western values when faced with non-western aggression. Faced with a bunch of sexist xenophobes she can only warble that it all must be consentual because…???

The Soft State is dead in the water and will be replaced by some version of a Strong State (different models in different places).

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Stringer Bell

March 27, 2016

The Most Moral Army strikes again!

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/714232997365424128

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 28, 2016
  
  The comments to the tweet made my hair stand on end. One group of freakazoids excuses the soldier while another group of freakazoids excuses the fellow who stabbed a person. And not a single normal commenter in sight.
  
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Dreidel

March 27, 2016

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raddledoldtart

April 1, 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/music/lostinshowbiz/2016/apr/01/wedding-singer-sting-russians-love-their-children-too

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el

April 1, 2016

\ The Most Moral Army strikes again!

The soldier is investigated. Here is an update, if someone is interested:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4786043,00.html

\ not a single normal commenter in sight.

I read several normal opinion pieces in Israeli press. In the most Right-wing “Israel Hayom” private newspaper was written that throwing away international norms and living according to religious and “common sense” (“terrorists must always be killed”) rules is where ISIS wants to live and to drag everybody else with them. Another “Israel Hayom” opinion writer wrote about the dangers of soldiers being influenced by populist politicians, taking politicians’ “terrorists must die” literally, instead of IDF being not policized organization uniting (almost) the whole Jewish Israeli people.

On another topic (Russian):

Общественное мнение
http://trim-c.livejournal.com/989189.html

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el

April 2, 2016

Today is already 2nd April, not the 1st, but it’s such a funny not-joke:

http://marko19511.livejournal.com/1487441.html

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1. Clarissa
  
  April 2, 2016
  
  Wow, this is priceless.
  
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el

April 2, 2016

Btw, now I know what America and Israel need to do to decrease the number of our road accidents. 🙂

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el

April 2, 2016

Uri’s latest column:
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1459518244/

Unlike him, I find it hard to believe the masses of the Arab peoples will “tolerate official connections between their rulers and Israel”, the moment Israel tries to reach a real peace deal with Palestinians.

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1. Clarissa
  
  April 2, 2016
  
  These are not democracies. Nobody will ask the masses what they will tolerate. They’ll accept whatever they are told.
  
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el

April 5, 2016

New book reveals Obama stopped plan to topple Assad
Doug Laux, a former CIA agent based in the Middle East, writes in a new book that he and other agents crafted a plan to overthrow Assad in 2012, but US President Barack Obama rejected it.
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If the program had succeeded, it possibly could have stopped the rise of ISIS and the flow of refugees into Europe, fleeing the chaos in Syria.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4787391,00.html

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el

April 7, 2016

Can Handwriting Make You Smarter?
Students who take notes by hand outperform students who type, and more type these days, new studies show
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Those who wrote out their notes longhand took down fewer words, but appeared to think more intensely about the material as they wrote, and digested what they heard more thoroughly, the researchers reported in Psychological Science. “All of that effort helps you learn,” said Dr. Oppenheimer.

Laptop users instead took notes by rote, taking down what they heard almost word for word.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-handwriting-make-you-smarter-1459784659

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Stringer Bell

April 7, 2016

http://gawker.com/wisconsin-republican-accidentally-tells-the-truth-about-1769345638

In an interview with the local NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Grothman—who represents a district just northwest of the city—was asked by reporter Charles Benson how a Republican presidential candidate such as Cruz could win the state for the first time since Ronald Reagan in 1984. Grothman’s response: Hillary and barely legal discriminatory practices. Via WTMJ:

“Well, I think Hillary Clinton is just about the weakest candidate the Democrats have ever put up, and now we have photo ID, and I think photo ID is going to make a little bit of a difference as well.”

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