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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (104): Police Brutality
How many cops does it take to throw a man down the stairs? None. He fell. More political jokes. More Escher.
Posted in comedy, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged escher, m.c. escher, police, police brutality, stairs, violence
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Moral Dilemma (17): Neutron Bomb or Regular Atomic Bomb?
(source) Imagine you’re the commander in chief of a country fighting a war with a fascist dictatorship. The enemy army is losing the war but is going to fight until the last man. You have to end the war quickly … Continue reading
Posted in horror, international relations, moral dilemmas, philosophy, war
Tagged atomic weapons, dilemma, ethics, morality, neutron bomb, nuclear weapons, soviet union
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Statistical Jokes (25): Dangerous Neighborhood
“Why are you moving? You have arrived to this lovely neighborhood just a few weeks ago.” “Yes, but I read in the local paper a bit of statistics that said, ‘most auto accidents happen within eight miles of your home’.” … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, statistical jokes, statistics
Tagged accident, driving, humor, joke, neighborhood
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Political Graffiti (132): Revolution For Display Purposes Only
(source) More on revolution. More political graffiti.
Measuring Human Rights (17): Human Rights and Progress
We’re all aware of the horrors of recent history. The 20th century doesn’t get a good press. And yet, most of us still think that humanity is, on average, much better off today than it was some centuries or millennia … Continue reading
Posted in horror, measuring human rights, philosophy, statistics, war
Tagged history, holocaust, human rights, measurement problems, progress, quantitative analysis, violence
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Human Rights Maps (124): The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 2 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from approximately 1910 to 1930. The cause of this massive population flow was racism and racist violence, … Continue reading
Statistical Jokes (24): Probability
There was this statistics student who, when driving his car, would always accelerate hard before coming to any junction, whizz straight over it , then slow down again once he’d got over it. One day, he took a passenger, who … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, statistical jokes, statistics
Tagged driving, humor, joke, junction, probability
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Human Rights Facts (60): Slavery Time Line
You’ve probably already heard about Google’s Ngram tool, a tool that allows you to calculate the frequency of keywords in the millions of books available in Google’s collection. Such frequencies can be thought of as approximations of the general use … Continue reading
