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13Oct/160

Donald Trump, Unshackled and Unhinged – The New York Times

He still has a chance to turn things around, but he’s showing no inclination that he wants to.

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13Oct/160

The Times’s Lawyer Responds to Donald Trump – The New York Times

This is the letter David McCraw, vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times, wrote in response to a request from Marc E. Kasowitz, Mr. Trump's lawyer, to retract an article that featured two women accusing Mr. Trump of touching them inappropriately years ago, and issue an apology.

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13Oct/160

Bob Dylan, Master of Change – The New York Times

“I’m a poet, I know it, hope I don’t blow it,” he once sang. He hasn’t.

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12Oct/160

Trump and the Nuclear Keys – The New York Times

Nuclear launch officers count on the president to have sound judgment. That would not be possible under a President Trump.

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12Oct/160

Donald D. Hoffman | University of California, Irvine

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11Oct/160

The concept of race lacks scientific support, Harvard professor says | Toronto Star

“Race is a scientifically indefensible concept with no biological basis as applied to humans,” says Harvard anthropology professor Daniel Lieberman.

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11Oct/160

‘I’m the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse’ – The New York Times

Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s cautious — and surprisingly risky — campaign.

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11Oct/160

Groundwater Basics

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11Oct/160

It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’ | Aeon Essays

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Here lies an opportunity to ponder the idea that your and my sense of objects, entities, events and one another is nothing more than a collection of expectations or predictions.

This modest cosmology means that the subject matter of inductive and deductive debates:"What is really going on? What can we really say about it?" has the status of questions  about angels dancing upon pin heads.

Perhaps we are talking about utilitarian commonalities across irreducibly private renderings of what is going on, from points of view we call ourselves and one another

This does not mean that the distinction between deductive and inductive is not important, but   inductive understandings could be closer to the flowing nature of what is going on than hard-edged deductive syllogisms.

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7Oct/160

Basic income is coming to Ontario: now what? | Toronto Star

Basic income on its own, however designed, will not be enough to eliminate poverty or achieve the other objectives its proponents are pursuing

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