by Carl Howard | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Society
If you’ve been online in the last 3 months, you’ve probably seen the SlutWalk phenomenon. If not, a quick recap: Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti said “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”. The Toronto SlutWalk was...
by Carl Howard | May 23, 2011 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Language
I’ve discovered interesting Chinese version to the old Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo stuff I posted on almost a year ago. Firstly, the most common Chinese languages that people have been exposed to in English-speaking countries are Mandarin or Cantonese....
by Carl Howard | May 19, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, History, Language, Society
Luke Muehlhauser has a very interesting page up where he’s run every inaugural speech from every US president through an automatic reading level analyser. Here is the page for the full graph and stats. For the lazy, it basically starts off very high from George...
by Carl Howard | May 6, 2011 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Society, Travel
As I was reading Lonely Planet’s guide to Turkey, I found a few interesting things in their history section. I browsed the timeline before I read the main text and here’s what I saw: See anything interesting? I don’t — namely I don’t see anything about the Armenian...
by Carl Howard | May 4, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Philosophy, Society
Anatoly Wasserman is one of the most famous public intellectuals in Russia today. He is essentially a genius with some astronomical IQ who largely taught himself entire fields of knowledge. He first came to fame in 1989 for being an unbeatable contestant on Soviet...
by Carl Howard | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog Topics, Links
This super-abridged Bible project is taking up most of my blogging timeslot so posts may be sparser since each book takes longer to prepare. But I shan’t miss a link dump! 20 actual scienticians’ studies on religion It’s 1 year since the Haiti earthquake. Hundreds of...
