Archives for the month of: October, 2015
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You probably have seen this, but just in case you have not. I think the policemen used a lot of restraint.
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On Discovery now – “Elite special ops soldiers the most highly trained combat divers on the planet. Worth watching if you can find it and have time to look at it.
I had not idea that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome could be this debilitating.
Last month, a debate team of three inmates with violent criminal records defeated a team of three Harvard University undergraduates.
It sounds like an underdog story plucked from the pages of a yet unwritten Walt Disney screenplay — and in some ways, it is.
But it’s also worth pointing out the fallacy of our underlying assumptions about such a matchup — the first (and most pernicious) being that criminals aren’t smart. If a definitive link between criminality and below-average intelligence exists, nobody has found it.
…The debate took place last month at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison about an hour southwest of Bard College. The hosts beat a Harvard team that had won three of four American Parliamentary Debate Association national championships.
…What makes the victory over Harvard impressive is less about who pulled it off than how they did it.
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