note: This is not a volley in the \(\pi-\tau\) debate, of which Vi Hart is undisputed monarch -- and right, as well -- as far as I'm concerned. (1) A few number-theoretic \(\pi\) facts: * \(\pi\) is provably transcendental, thus also irrational. * \(\pi\) is suspected, but not known,
1 Ecuador, attempting to prove that it's indistinguishable from Costa Rica, tricks a tour group thinking they've gone to Costa Rica into believing that they were going to Costa Rica when in fact, they were taken to a part of Ecuador that was, apparently, indistinguishable from
content warning: defense of satire of certain critiques of racism; critique of censorship of satire of certain critiques of racism; critique of certain critiques of racism content note: As should go without saying, zero defense of racism intended. socioepistemic status: white male ally (1) The Harvard Crimson | Posters Parodying Advocacy
Back after more than two months, the Friday linkwrap! (Does anyone else get as excited for these as I do? No, right?) 0 So, I've been pretty delinquent about these, but at least I've had the decency to keep stashing things I found worth reading at
I'm in the Harvard Political Review today, with a guest piece responding to Eric Posner's anti-effective-altruism opinion in Slate: Posner...is convinced that this tendency toward scrupulosity is enough of an issue that we should abandon the concept of effectiveness in altruism entirely. His critique, though,