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Gay brains or bad statistics
Peter Coles (who is himself gay) looked at the story Gay men and heterosexual women have similarly shaped brains, research shows, going back to the actual research paper.
In Cerebral Asymmetry: is it all in the Mind? he argues that the statistics behind the conclusion are suspect:
The Day The Soviet Union Dropped A Nuclear Bomb On Its Own Citizens
The article originally identified the bomber as a Sukhoi T-4, an aircraft that did not fly until 1972. The mistake was obvious to me from the picture, which has not (as of today) been replaced. That is not a bomber from the early 1950’s. The bomb was dropped from a Tupolev Tu-4, the Soviet copy of of the U.S. B-29 bomber, which was used in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Monday Night Irish Class, October 6, 2014
Irish Class, October 6, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, an 6ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2014
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An Cailín i Siopa na mBláth
Áine Uí Fhoghlú
Faking History
The following is a parable about how history is written on the internet. Let’s imagine you have a web page and you want people to visit it. How could you get the history scoop of 2014? Well you could go and bribe some doctorate students, ask for an interview with a wanw professor, research an area to death and pontificate… What you don’t have time? Then why not just make it all up?!
Monday Night Irish Class, September 29, 2014
Irish Class, September 29, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, 29ú lá Mí Mheán Fómhair 2014
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Crúba na Cinniúna
The Meanest Man in Math
The Epic Story of Johann Bernoulli.
No profession is free from the kind of miserable jerks who ruin it for everyone else. No intelligence level is either. When great intelligence, prestige careers, and big egos come together, things get ugly. Johann Bernoulli was, as a person, very ugly.
Atheism and Sexism
I have been following this story for a while in some corners of the ‘net. Now it is reaching the wider world.
Monday Night Irish Class, September 22, 2014
Irish Class, September 22, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, 22ú lá Mí Mheán Fómhair 2014
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GÓGAN, Liam Seosamh (1891–1979)
Na Coisithe “The Walkers”
Relativity is Right on Time,…
Special relativity predicts that a twin in a high-speed rocket, as viewed by his Earth-bound brother, will have a slower-ticking clock. A precise test of this time dilation, first performed in 1938, involves observing the frequency shift—or “ticking” change—in the electronic transitions of fast-moving ions. An update of this type of experiment using lithium ions has now verified special relativity’s prediction with unprecedented accuracy—a result that provides additional constraints on quantum gravity models.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 