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How to Cheat on a Test

כ"ד בתמוז ה'תש"ע (6 July 2010)

If you came here looking for instructions on cheating, you won’t find them. I am a reformed cheater and think cheating is despicable, so please don’t do it. In my high school, virtually everybody cheated (I know of two students who didn’t), but in retrospect I would have been much better off if I’d not [...]

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Al Gore is a rapist.

י"ג בתמוז ה'תש"ע (25 June 2010)

The above statement has no bearing in truth (and I wrote it just to attract people searching for it). In fact, if what the New York Times says is true, Al Gore is about as far from being a rapist as anyone can be. Unless I’m missing some subtextual implication, he’s being accused of wanting [...]

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Deflation

ז' באדר ה'תש"ע (21 February 2010)

Recently one of my favorite bloggers, Israeli Water Engineer, wrote about fears of deflation in the United States: “This is bad. The only solution to world indebtness is controlled inflation….” I commented that deflation is a pretty good thing; he replied and I replied back (go read it). Though this discussion is about deflation, I [...]

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Effects of Divorce on Children

ו' באדר ה'תש"ע (20 February 2010)

The way to measure the effects of divorce on children is to compare children of divorced parents with children of parents who are still married. Right? In a New York Times op/ed, Ruth Bettelheim says that there isn’t a difference: Studies conducted in the past 20 years have shown that on all meaningful measures of [...]

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Pinker vs. Gladwell

ה' בכסלו ה'תש"ע (22 November 2009)

Who is Malcolm Gladwell? Oh yeah, he’s that Canadian dude whose books you don’t have to bother reading because enough other people have read them that their ideas have seeped and saturated into the consciousness of everyone around you, and into your own as well – a process described, inevitably, in one of his books. [...]

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Raising Dogs and Children

ב' בכסלו ה'תש"ע (19 November 2009)

Very interesting response from Carolyn Hax: “In my experience, dog-rearing style is a deadly accurate predictor of child-rearing style.” That is kind of worrying to me, because I’m quite harsh and strict with my dog. I have actually made every decision with him and with his training based on the concept that he is not [...]

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