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2015-08-31T15:58:18-04:00

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Donating to Women Prisoners Denied Medical Supplies

Last updated on: August 31, 2015 at 3:58 pm By Leah Libresco

Prisons price tampons and pads out of the range of what some women prisoners can afford. Forcing indigent prisoners to bleed into their clothes can pose health/sanitary problems, but, even if it were no problem, medically, it would still be a terrible situation to force prisoners into simply because it is humiliating. And, as far as I can tell, my friend Clare has the same “Someone ought to do something” reaction as me when she read that, but then decided... Read more

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2015-08-22T11:20:27-04:00

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Eve Tushnet’s Great New Novel On Forgiveness And Addiction

Last updated on: August 22, 2015 at 11:20 am By Leah Libresco

Eve Tushnet, the author of Gay and Catholic, just released her second book! Amends is a novel about addiction and forgiveness (and how both aren’t things you can finish dealing with). I just finished it myself, and I can’t wait to be back in D.C. to convene my friends to talk about it (and read aloud some to the passages that were particularly profound and/or hilarious). Here’s how I reviewed it on Amazon: Eve’s first novel is excellent. I read it... Read more

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2015-08-21T21:21:14-04:00

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7QT: Innovation in Gross Robots and Stock Photos

Last updated on: August 21, 2015 at 9:21 pm By Leah Libresco

— 1 — If folks don’t want to wait til next year to play in another Ideological Turing Test, one of the posters on LessWrong is running one on vegitarianism. Format is a little different — you’re asked to rate your confidence using numbers, rather than the categorical variables I usually use. Let me know if you notice anything about the way he’s running his that you’d like me to adapt for mine! — 2 — And. speaking of adaptations,... Read more

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2015-08-14T11:20:04-04:00

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7QT: The Odder Errors of Computers and Humans

Last updated on: August 14, 2015 at 11:20 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — My family tends to share thoughts on the New Yorker caption contest every week, over email, when the magazine arrives (no wins yet!). But I didn’t know that our entries might be being winnowed out by a computer. BloombergBusiness has a nice feature on the Microsoft team working with the New Yorker cartoon editor to see if they can build a program that can tell the difference between funny captions and ones that fall flat. For the study, Shahaf fed... Read more

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2015-08-13T16:26:55-04:00

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Is “Kindness-Adjacent” A Useful Category?

Last updated on: August 13, 2015 at 4:26 pm By Leah Libresco

Catherine Addington wrote a great piece on police brutality for AmCon (that happened to riff on one of my posts about unadvisable, rape-adjacent sex): Bland’s death remains under investigation, but the dashboard camera footage of her interaction with Encinia shows the escalation of a warning for the failure to signal into the forceful detention of an epileptic woman. Surprisingly, much of what occurred between Encinia and Bland appears to have been legal, if imprudent. Encinia’s tactics could be called “brutality-adjacent policing,” in which the standard for behavior... Read more

Morality in Practice

2015-08-12T16:01:24-04:00

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Positive Parenting and Pick Up Artistry

Last updated on: August 12, 2015 at 4:01 pm By Leah Libresco

Libby Anne of the Patheos Atheist channel is one of my favorite people to read on parenting, and I really enjoyed her recent post “When Positive Parenting Doesn’t ‘Work'” I’m pulling a longer quote and I still feel bad about chopping up her story, so just pop over and read the whole thing. Simply put, here is a situation where I very badly wanted Bobby to sleep, and not a one of my positive parenting techniques was able to achieve that. And... Read more

Morality in Practice

2015-08-12T20:03:43-04:00

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The Exuberance of Quotidian Goodness

Last updated on: August 12, 2015 at 8:03 pm By Leah Libresco

In Sunday’s Book Review, the NYT asked authors whether virtuous characters can ever be interesting. The first author came down firmly on the side of the villains, saying, “No one has ever preferred Amelia to Becky in “Vanity Fair,” or Melanie to Scarlett in “Gone With the Wind.” But Alice Gregory, the second writer, said you can’t do better than a good person if what you want is conflict. The trick is remembering that the antagonist is the world. But as anyone who... Read more

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2015-08-10T13:34:19-04:00

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Seeing the World Through Tammet’s Joy

Last updated on: August 10, 2015 at 1:34 pm By Leah Libresco

Sometimes, when I have a book out from the library, I wind up buying it, and Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Learning, Love, and Math is one that I ordered before I had finished reading it. Tammet is on the autism spectrum, and his book’s title pays homage to Temple Grandin’s Thinking in Pictures, and its spirit is very Math Curse. Tammet has mathematical synesthesia, and there’s a fun part in his autobiography Born on a Blue Day (which I got out from... Read more

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2015-07-31T13:43:06-04:00

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7QT: Well Designed Studies, Metaphors, and Parties

Last updated on: July 31, 2015 at 1:43 pm By Leah Libresco

— 1 — I’ve had some pretty good Sondheim birthdays, but this toddler’s parents have thrown the best party. To celebrate her son’s first birthday, L’erin Dobra threw him a Mickey Mouse party. Planning out Grayson’s second birthday party, Ms. Dobra chose a different theme, one that reflected her little boy’s most passionate interest: New Orleans personal injury lawyer Morris Bart. Mr. Bart is a familiar face in Louisiana thanks to his ubiquitous TV ads and a firm motto that... Read more

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2015-07-24T13:15:58-04:00

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7QT: Inventive takes on Electronics, Priesthood, and Stereoscopic Vision

Last updated on: July 24, 2015 at 1:15 pm By Leah Libresco

— 1 — Thanks to anyone who contributed to my birthday fundraiser for GiveDirectly! I set $300 as a goal, and, between you guys and my offline friends, folks have raised over $400 for this highly effective cash transfer program! Also, because my friends, like me, are huge dorks, a number of people donated psuedononymously under names like: MORALITY ITSELF PPJ Bobby Tables; SELECT * FROM USERS; 🙂 (see here if confused) I love you guys. The fundraiser is still... Read more

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