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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Breaking in a joystick
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(QC RSS) The Straight And Narrow
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(Radical Classical Liberals) No, Maus Wasn’t Banned by a Tennessee School Board.
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the decision of the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee to remove Maus from its 8th Grade ELA curriculum. Much of this discussion has focused on the claim that Board has “banned” Maus from the school; this had led some to claim that the Board did…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Verdict on Judge Alexis Krot: Cancellation by sean samis
In reply to mlyoung57. I think your first paragraph is probably correct, but I’d also like to add that a first-order wrong cannot be considered in isolation. History and context are part of that consideration. If your goal was to distinguish and clarif…
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(The GiveWell Blog) IPTi for malaria: a promising intervention with likely room to scale
Intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) for malaria provides preventive antimalarial medicine to children under 12 months old. It is among the most promising programs we’ve identified in our active pipeline of new interventions. It’s also underutilized, and the population it targets is especially vulnerable to malaria. That implies potential to open up large amounts…
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(Cat and Girl) The Bright Side
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(Our World in Data) How we’re building a team for better data at Our World in Data
Data is too often published in a way that’s hard to understand, check and build upon – reinforcing the low valuation it gets in society. Here is how we’re trying to break out of this bad equilibrium.
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(QC RSS) The Dankest Emmett Lore
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy by David Potts
In reply to boydstun. Hi Stephen, I did not know until now that the program “Will and Grace” had something to do with gay people. Wow, that’s crazy. Of course, most people do have TV sets, and the show was very popular. A basic reason to think th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Verdict on Judge Alexis Krot: Cancellation by mlyoung57
In reply to sean samis. In regard to the dialectic of the public debates (or shouting matches or mutual denunciations) regarding cancellation, your point about consistency in the epistemic skepticism (regarding when someone has done wrong) is spot-on: …
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