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One for the Roosh Files 26 Jul 2013 | 03:11 pm
Some random club in Manhattan, 14 June 2013.
Only 15% of Scandinavian Pupils can do Basic Fractions 22 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Further to my post on the remarkable failure of Scandinavian education systems to develop their students to anywhere near the levels indicated by their IQ potentials, a professor of mathematics at a W...
Preliminary Thoughts on TIMSS/PIRLS 2012 15 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
I had been meaning to post about this for a long time. Better late than never, I suppose. The TIMSS and PIRLS are international assessments of academic ability in math, science and literacy that are ...
The Social Thaw: Change in Facebook Policy 14 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
My response to Snowdengate, the new Graph Search, its inevitable integration with Google Glass? I will be minimizing my privacy settings and for all intents and purposes making my Facebook public. So...
Corruption, The American Way 14 Jul 2013 | 04:19 am
So apparently an Ambassadorship costs $1.8 million per post in the US. In virtually any other country, even where the situation with corruption is quite dismal, such arrangements would be seen as unq...
Open Thread #2 11 Jul 2013 | 01:50 pm
This Open Thread is permanently glued to the front page. Feel free to step in here to comment on current affairs or ask me stuff (unless this involves Russia in which case do it here at Da Russophile)...
GCB2013 Released 11 Jul 2013 | 02:34 am
Here it is. Or just skip the graphics and download the data in Excel here. I can’t say I care much about most of it. Of course most people everything think corruption is “increasing,” because they ar...
Lessons From The Snowden Affair 7 Jul 2013 | 01:15 pm
(1) Just as with Manning, it is beyond dispute that Snowden broke US law. As such, the US government is perfectly entitled to try to apprehend him (on its own soil), request his extradition, and prose...
Hero’s Journey To Las Vegas 30 May 2013 | 07:30 pm
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The Return Of Sublime Oblivion 25 Apr 2013 | 08:00 pm
In recent weeks, I began a new blog at http://sublimeoblivion.com/, which (confusingly?) had once been my sole website where I blogged about the things that I now blog about both here and at Da Russop...