Sunday, February 3, 2013

Indian English: Totally Legend Like Anything

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The numbers speak.   12. 5 crore Indians use English, whereas only half as many in the UK do the same.   When the USA invaded Iraq...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Systemic Injustice

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We know the factors of failed justice.   Often, they form a syndrome.   No single correction or remedy will address them all.   The cures c...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

ART & COPY

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The Energizer Bunny, the Apple iPod, “Just do it.”, the Me Generation, Perrier, Ronald Reagan, “I Want My MTV.”,Tommy Hilfiger, “Got Milk?”...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Sergei Magnitsky

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Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer who investigated the agencies of the Russian government that looted the British firm Hermitag...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Four Books About Bad Science

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When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery by Simon LeVay (Plume Penguin, 2008).   LeVay lays out his facts i...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

Criminality and Scientific Research:Why Scientists Go Wrong; and Why the Wrong People Become Scientists

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“Crime knows no neighborhood” is an axiom of criminology. In other words, every population contains members who stray from folkways, viola...
Monday, December 31, 2012

20% of Scientists are Crooks

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At university in both "Introduction to Criminology" and the "Senior Seminar in Criminolgy", our professor, Liqun Cao,...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

From Texas to the Moon with John Leonard Riddell

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John Leonard Riddell was the first working scientist to publish a science fiction story,  Orrin Lindsay’s Plan of Aerial Navigation, with a...
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