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2013-05-13 15:42:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New post, includes optical illusions and ranting!

http://jonfwilkins.com/2013/05/this-gif-is-the-perfect-metaphor-for-contemporary-capitalism/

2013-05-06 14:34:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

What do the the Rutgers basketball scandal and the incidents surrounding the findings of academic fraud in the 2005 Trivers paper on symmetry and dancing reveal about the university incentive system?

Nothing good.

http://jonfwilkins.com/2013/05/basketball-fraud-and-the-broken-university-incentive-system/

2013-04-30 22:17:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How does the FBI know it collected "female DNA" from the Boston Marathon bombs? An explainer.
http://jonfwilkins.com/2013/04/how-does-the-fbi-know-it-found-female-dna/

2013-04-18 18:40:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here's my six or so cents on E. O. Wilson's "You don't need math to do science" thing

http://jonfwilkins.com/2013/04/e-o-wilson-is-wrong-again-not-about-math-but-about-collaboration/

2013-04-04 18:15:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I've got a sort of theory on why many small businesses can't / won't compete with big chains in areas where they should be able to win.

http://jonfwilkins.com/2013/04/cognitive-biases-and-the-trouble-with-moral-local-shopping/

2013-03-27 15:03:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Lost in Transcription has moved. Come check it out and say hi! http://jonfwilkins.com/2013/03/housewarming-party/ ‎

2013-03-26 13:21:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If a blog moves to a new platform in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does the Pope still shit in the woods?

2013-03-08 17:50:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The paperback edition of Remarkable is out now!!

Now!!!!!!!!!

2013-03-06 18:11:09 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

Depth of the human Y chromosome tree just increased by 66%. (Featuring throw-away quote by yours truly.)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-all-men-is-340000-years-old.html

2013-03-06 01:59:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Ambient coffee shop noise to work by http://coffitivity.com

2013-03-05 15:57:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

AM Repost: Last week, xkcd's "What If" column used Shannon's estimate of the entropy rate of English to calculate that there are 10^46 possible unique English tweets. This is a huge underestimate, and the right answer is probably more in the ballpark of 10^100.

Why? Entropy rate is the wrong tool.

Also, a couple of rough calculations show that you can quickly reach 10^46 with random word sequences, even if you limit yourself to a vocabulary of only 200 words. Or, you can get to 10^46 just riffing on the opening lines of Keats's Endymion.

2013-03-05 02:15:37 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How many English tweets are possible? XKCD's "What If" estimated 10^46, but the real answer is much, much larger, more like 10^100.

2013-03-01 15:14:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Yesterday's comic

http://www.darwineatscake.com/?id=159

2013-02-25 16:15:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

By far the best moment of the Oscars

2013-02-25 15:50:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This is true -> http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1312

2013-02-25 15:39:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Today's comic at Darwin Eats Cake: Bosons 

http://www.darwineatscake.com/?id=158

2013-02-22 16:48:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Final cartoon in this series: Darwin Eats Cake: Gay Friends IV

http://www.darwineatscake.com/?id=157

2013-02-21 20:18:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

New comic, third in the series: Darwin Eats Cake: Gay Friends III

http://www.darwineatscake.com/?id=156

2013-02-21 18:52:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Excellent

2013-02-21 16:46:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Worst police sketch ever? Plus comments

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/02/21/a-south-park-character-robbed-krogers/

2013-02-21 15:14:11 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Now up at Darwin Eats Cake: Gay Friends Part 2

http://www.darwineatscake.com/?id=155

2013-02-21 01:45:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New Republican dating site?

2013-02-20 20:07:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Gay men and women are friends" - Science!

http://www.darwineatscake.com/?id=154

2013-02-19 22:44:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Seems to me like this misses the mark

2013-02-14 00:39:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

How (not) to apologize for horrible things you've done.

2013-02-13 15:35:04 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Apparently, people see different amounts of text when they look at street signs. New comic up at Darwin Eats Cake

No Stopping or Standing http://www.darwineatscake.com/?id=153

2013-02-12 19:49:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A really nice articulation of the downsides, or at least the limitations, of Online courses.

2013-02-11 17:27:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A (likely incomplete) list of White History Months

2013-02-09 20:54:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Two fun things for Star Wars fans -- and dorks in general.

2013-02-08 16:03:58 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Run, don't walk, to twitter, and check out the #INeedMasculismBecause  hashtag

2013-02-08 03:52:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

There's a surprisingly safe for work tumblr of things fitting perfectly into other things 

http://thingsfittingperfectlyintothings.tumblr.com 

2013-02-07 20:55:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Video advice to a young designer. But the advice is exactly right for everyone. Yes, you, too.

2013-02-07 05:37:33 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I really have no idea why I thought I needed to do this, but here's a transcript of that interview with Kai, the Hatchet Hero

2013-02-07 00:17:08 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 8 +1s)

"God said, 'And I need somebody who will tell everyone else to stand on their own two feet, but who will then run to the government for a bailout as soon as he gets into trouble — and who will then use that bailout money to help elect a Congress that will look the other way. And then pay himself another bonus.'

So God made a banker."

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/so-god-made-a-banker-2013-02-06?link=sfmw

2013-02-06 14:37:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The Pulp-o-mizer is excellent. As is this book. That's excellent squared to you!

2013-02-06 04:58:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Newspaper owner tries a depressingly rare approach: fire all the business people and give raises to the reporters.

2013-02-05 22:51:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you don't watch this, you are a fool, but no, I do not pity you. You have chosen the path of folly.

2013-02-05 19:41:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you haven't yet seen the full-length interview with Kai, it's a must watch.

2013-02-03 01:05:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

For the overseas . . . and sports-illiterate

2013-02-01 02:12:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Apparently, we live 70 miles from Hitler's toilet

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/30/new-jersey-home-to-hitlers-t.html

2013-01-31 20:09:26 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

In which I respond to some of the comments posted on the article on independent scholars in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Be warned: there is yelling.

2013-01-31 16:27:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

When it comes to setting you blog comment policy, don't let yourself get pushed around.

2013-01-30 23:13:49 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

Ah, love

From: http://www.shoeboxblog.com/?p=32987

2013-01-29 22:23:17 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

"All that said, if you were convicted, the maximum penalty under the law for unlocking your phone is now greater than the maximum penalty for turning it into an IED." #priorities

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/what-the-ban-on-unlocking-phon.html

2013-01-24 14:52:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Here's my attempt to clear up any confusion about the status of the Ronin Institute as a US / International organization

2013-01-22 16:02:04 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New article on independent scholarship in general (and some on the Ronin Institute in particular) in the Chronicle of Higher Ed

2013-01-16 19:45:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The Ronin Institute has adopted a motto: Scientiam Consecemus!

2013-01-14 20:57:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I've been doing this for a couple of days now. Really fun.

2013-01-12 03:38:38 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

No Death Star for you!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking

2013-01-08 19:38:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Here, together, the last two installments of the Fisher/Haldane chronicles, such as they are.