Links for you. Science:
No Great Technological Stagnation
The delusion continues
No, ‘science’ didn’t ‘prove’ that dogs hate hugs
The struggle with image glut: Experiments that generate millions of images have forced scientists to find new ways to store and share terabytes of experimental data
The Pleistocene as Humanity’s Hyborian Age
Other:
Uncanny Valley: I would say more, but I signed an NDA (excellent)
Sanders Endorses the First Amendment, Outrage Ensues
Rather Than Campaign As Liberal Alternative To Trump, Clinton To Run As Smarter Republican (but uniting the party! Or something)
The political scientist who saw Trump’s rise coming
A Humble Suggestion to Clinton Supporters
TTIP: We Were Right All Along
“John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection
In 2008 Barack Obama Didn’t Start Helping Down-Ticket Dems Until After Hillary Left the Race
Postmortem
Nearsighted
Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some.
Introducing Full Professor SkySkull!
This (un)certain life: Academic precarity is a special kind of ‘torture’, observes Siobhan O’Dwyer, but scholarly life is not all doom and gloom
Modern Feminism Is Selling Out (pragmatic?)
End of Golden Era for Investors Spells Troubles for Millennials
US housing crunch: The price isn’t right (almost like this is a market failure or something)
Here’s why I’m suing the New York Times for discrimination
When I was in grad school at a low-paying institution, and the prospective grads would come around to visit, we would tell them: “If you decide to turn this place down, please tell them it’s because of the money.”
“No, ‘science’ didn’t ‘prove’ that dogs hate hugs”
I think the original op-ed was quite silly to begin with; made me seriously question if the author has any experience at all with dogs, or only through textbooks and internetpics.. (Are those even pictures of dogs and their owners, or do they also exist of products of professional photoshoots?)
Fact is, any dog can be taught to like hugs through fitting them into sessions of play or grooming for instance (allthough the needed effort and patience may certainly vary).