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Heat and reaction time

mercredi 18 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Unpleasant heat slowed down reaction time for students in Boston.

There is only one way to enable both men and women to feel comfortable in an office: set the temperature cool enough that nobody feels too hot, then encourage each person to wear as much clothing as it takes to feel comfortable.

Recovering boy from US clutches

mercredi 18 juillet 2018 à 02:00

A Guatemalan Family Faces Endless Obstacles as They Struggle to Recover a 9-Year-Old Boy From U.S. [clutches].

I will not refer to this using the euphemism of "custody".

Kavanaugh on gun control

mercredi 18 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Kavanaugh is a persistent enemy of gun control. He might not allow a ban on high-velocity military-style rifles that are especially likely to kill or maim people they hit.

Definitions of antisemitism

mercredi 18 juillet 2018 à 02:00

At last we see what's really at stake in the dispute about various definitions of antisemitism.

Peace between Israel and Palestine requires that Israel remove its colonies in Palestinian territory (including the territory that Israel claims to have annexed to Jerusalem). Those Israelis are all Jews, at least nominally, since Israeli Arabs don't join the settler movement. With some distortion, this could be equated to a demand for "all Jews to be expelled from a future Palestine", and then under the author's criterion it would count as "antisemitic".

I think this is a reason not to accept his criterion.

Trickle-down logic

mercredi 18 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Ocasio-Cortez punctures the trickle-down logic of "mainstream centrists".

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