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-Benjamin Franklin
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The Quality of Data
We live in a world filled with data – but a lot of the presentations are slanted. Sometimes the slant is political, sometimes the slant is a bizarre sense of humor. I like Wikipedia – but I don’t rely on it. I tapped in to look for a bio on George Washington Carver, and I Read more
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Journalists Who Don’t Ride Horses
I looked at photos of a mounted border troll whipping a fleeing Haitian immigrant – or at least that’s what the message said. The description matched an Orc, right out of Mordor. The agent swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river who were trying to return to an encampment Read more
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Quasi-Experimental Research and Old Ammo
Ammoland has an article that shows what we term “quasi-experimental” research at ammoland.com. As a sociologist – studying people in groups – using experimental methodology has some ethical drawbacks. So we’re probably more likely than most to look for situations that allow some of the inferences we can make without well designed, well controlled experiments. Read more
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Mushrooms abound!
It’s been a good couple weeks for mushrooms here – puffballs, many ready to be made into mushroom steaks, some already releasing spores, seeding future years’ mushrooms. And shaggy manes, good for eating fresh, or letting sit and turn into “mushroom ink”. The first time this happened to some shaggy manes we’d collected, I was Read more
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A Reminder of My Best Week of Work
I let the little dogs out and heard an elk bugling in the distance. At first I thought “This is too early.” but as the sound continued, my mind went back over 30 years, to the finest week of work I have ever enjoyed. It was in the late 80’s, and I was working for Read more
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A Good Week Outdoors
I haven’t seen a muskrat since Spring – I thought that the low water last Winter had wiped them out. But the other evening, I watched one lone muskrat swimming across the pond. Each year young adult muskrats take off overland looking for an open niche, and it looks like at least one has moved Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 