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Teaches critical thinking & ethics @ the University of Cape Town | Co-author of Critical Thinking, Science & Pseudoscience:

Cape Town, South Africa
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Joined December 2008
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    150 years ago, a philosopher showed why it’s pointless to start arguments on the internet via

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  2. 8 hours ago

    “I’d love to see a female President. Just not Hillary Clinton. Or Elizabeth Warren. I am totally open to all other women leaders, but I have to admit that Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar are beginning to make me angry”. McSweeney’s:

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  3. 8 hours ago

    Thus meeting the challenge set by Pink Floyd in 1973.

    China lands rover on the far side of the moon.
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  4. Jan 2

    'A concerned passerby was walking outside a house in suburban Perth when they heard a toddler screaming and a man repeatedly shouting “Why don’t you die?”' Because this is Australia, though, the story turns out to be about a spder:

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  5. Jan 1

    This is from early last year, but you might have missed it too. How Jerry Selbee made nearly $27 million from nine years of playing the lottery:

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    Jan 1

    The Axis of Arseholes.

    Dear Mr. President , I truly appreciate your words of encouragement. Together, under God’s protection, we shall bring prosperity and progress to our people!
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  7. Jan 1

    "My wife told me to put the cat out. I didn’t know it was on fire! By the time I could act, it was incinerated, a harbinger of the path we all must take." Nihilist Dad jokes, in McSweeneys:

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  8. 31 Dec 2018

    The “outback Uber” - cane toads riding on a python.

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  9. 30 Dec 2018

    An additional row erupts over calling citizens “visitors”, and later, we could have a row about the quotation marks in the headline, given that nobody in the piece is recorded as uttering that phrase.

    Cape Town race row erupts after 'black visitors cleared from beach'
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    30 Dec 2018

    In all the stories about Utah's new 0.05 blood alcohol limit, and how it's supposedly "safer," only asked whether or not actual safety data supports it. (Nope.)

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  11. 29 Dec 2018

    Leaving aside the brain lateralisation stuff, this is a(nother) good reminder to sometimes put away your devices, go for a walk, or watch some cricket (etc.).

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    29 Dec 2018

    Oh dear 😆😁 you MUST read this thread!

    So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
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  13. 28 Dec 2018

    All the dead we cannot see - how statistician Patrick Ball is using machine learning to count the cost of human rights violations:

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  14. 27 Dec 2018

    On the difficulty of editing ’The Apprentice’ (and the making of President Trump): “Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump.”

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  15. 26 Dec 2018

    An interesting paper (open-access) on democracies, and the factors influencing their stability:

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    24 Dec 2018

    Kevin Spacey is going to own the Best Actor in a Personal Crisis category for years to come.

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    23 Dec 2018

    It truly is remarkable how ungenerous the New York Times can be in crediting others' prior work. That this long piece on the Gupta brothers corruption in South Africa does not even mention and is amazing.

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    21 Dec 2018

    When you've lost Chomsky, comrades.

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  19. 21 Dec 2018

    Julian Baggini on threats to the humanities, and the pursuit of “value” in higher education:

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  20. 20 Dec 2018

    Journo friends - January 10 is your deadline for entering the True Story Awards, with a handsome set prizes, awarded in Bern.

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