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by wrp 2y ago
I think of MacNeil/Lehrer (1976-1995) as the high-water mark for quality TV news in America. I felt the quality declined after Robert MacNeil left in 1995 and Jim Lehrer gradually shifted the load to new people. I stopped watching in
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MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Archive(americanarchive.org)
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Japan is known to be generally good at logistics, and you could say there is a software aspect to that. Robotics and machine control are also a traditional strength. My own experience is that their big weakness is interfacing with the user,
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Children model the behavior of their parents. It is very hard to compensate for an unhelpful home environment. I think any effective intervention has to go far beyond simply making resources available.
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I think about this quote often, because of how it was played in the media. "Unknown unknowns" is an obvious and non-controversial idea in technical circles, but it became a popular focus of ridicule, as though he said something mo
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There is a homeless shelter in my town that we support. When a transient asks me for money, I direct them to where they can get food, clothing, shelter, and a job. They never seem interested. I suppose they already knew about it but didn&#x
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The last time I went to the movies, it was because our department got some free tickets for the Lotte Cinema. My experience may have been atypical because I went in the afternoon, it was a British movie, and the theater was nearly empty, bu
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There is also the old question of why mathematicians tend to prefer pencils over pens. The most common reason I've heard is to make correction easier, but I don't think that's the real one. When I'm doing math, I never e
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Skimming through the other articles in that special issue, I thought the most practical advice was in Abandon Statistical Significance [1], which discusses the practicalities of not treating p -values as a threshold. [1] https:/&#x2
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A simpler explanation would be equally effective campaign management for each party. If both sides were optimally competent at adjusting their message to attract voters, they would tend toward equal portions of the vote. Of course, that&#x2
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton is a good place to start, moderately thorough and doesn't have an axe to grind. Her Halloween Encyclopedia is also quite good.
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What you are asking for is more "tooth", something mostly determined by the paper. Most stationery fans prefer smoother papers, but I agree that after a certain point, increased smoothness makes my handwriting worse. If you are st
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My first reaction to news of these discoveries is a twinge of grief, thinking about the poor sod who didn't make it back. Take the Lewis chessmen. He was probably a guy just trying to make a simple business importing chess sets, and so
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Well, yes, I suppose repeated washings over a few centuries would do that.
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I've only read lightly on the historical literature of ghosts, but I think TFA has some basic misconceptions. Through most of history, ghost sightings appeared to be of regular people, with the witness only realizing later that it was
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I know the Willamette area well. Most people don't realize how quickly pollen levels drop off as you move out of the valley into the Coast or Cascade ranges. It might be worthwhile to relocate a few miles into the hills, and just commu
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The main air hub for East Asia used to be Tokyo. Now it's Beijing. Where next?
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Nemo was originally written as a Polish aristocrat. When you consider that, all aspects of his description in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) make sense. By the time Verne wrote The Mysterious Island (1875), his ire had be
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> a daemon, not the Devil. Many years ago, I was working in some Islamic countries where getting literature through customs was very hit and miss, depending on the religious sensibilities of the inspecting agent. I actually called the Fr
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Also, the effect is magnified here by the relatively cramped spaces that Japanese small businesses typically occupy.
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TFA doesn't really explain this, but for the majority of people affected, it's not the amount of taxes but the hassle that matters most. The USA has squandered a lot of goodwill, driving many of those "accidental Americans&qu
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Searching for explanation, I wouldn't focus on recent trends. Continentals have been remarking on the high crime rate in urban England for centuries. As for Japan, the Tokugawa regime (1603-1868) was a draconian police state and the tr
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You don't say where you are going, but for shopping, I'll assume it's Tokyo. You might get more out of it by focusing on where to shop rather than what to buy. Tokyo used to have many interesting small shops, the way other ma
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I'm not a follower of CNN, but I've heard that CNN USA and CNN International are pretty different. In Korea, CNN seems to have a large following because it allows people to get the news while practicing their English.
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The C&H explanation has two parts, what triggers the humor response (perception of things that don't make sense) and why we have the humor response (evolutionary fitness). A theory of the humor mechanism should be congruent to a th
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Completely serious, I think Calvin & Hobbes had the best concise explanation. ( https://mymorningmeditations.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/... )
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The author of TFA and a few others like it is Marc Morris. To get his viewpoint at greater length, see his The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England (2012). Since at least the 19th century, there has
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So, "cognitive science" ==> "cognition" ==> "thinking". I would absolutely love to be able to say I was in the Department of Thinking.
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You can argue either way, because "creole" to too vaguely defined. The term was invented to cover a set of languages that had interesting historical and structural similarities, but it turns out to be hard to establish the boundar
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Taking this seriously, I'm not sure how to establish "truth to the story" besides surveys, which will always have biases. I'm sure TFA comments are biased by self-selection. I can only offer here some personal experience

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