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- 2009-12-09 Open Letter to Whole Foods Chapel Hill
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- 2010-03-14 0903 Josh Smith, Agent of Entropy § It's been nice not having Josh in the house for the past few weeks. We put something away or clean something, and it generally stays put away or cleaned. Organization gradually increases.
Josh made up for lost time last night. more...
- 2010-01-28 1638 The Eternal Residential Placement Catch-22 § We just heard back from Residential Services Inc, a group home in Chapel Hill which came highly recommended and with whom I spoke last night for about half an hour. more...
- 2009-10-24 1239 Josh Biathlon § Today's Josh Puzzler Challenge: Find the missing object. more...
- 2009-10-20 2131 what I learned about ValueOptions today § I had previously visited the web site for ValueOptions, the company which
deniesapproves Medicaid and Health Choice benefits in North Carolina but had been unable to find any way of contacting them electronically. Today, however, I went poking around more methodically and found... more... - 2009-09-05 0823 Balancing without a paddle § So here's the kind of thing I mean about needing daily balances. more...
- 2009-08-25 0654 Joshercize your way to rage and exhaustion § Josh's first morning back at school went about as well as I expected, which is to say not very well at all. We're fully expecting a call from the school any minute. more...
- 2009-07-04 1602 Joshing in the Men's Room § The lack of posts has not been due to lack of events but rather too many to keep up with. Here's what happened today. more...
- 2009-06-10 0640 No relief in sight § I don't really have the focus to write a proper blog post about this (except to note that the first sign of trouble came near the end of the day on Friday in the form of a phone call and that we waited all weekend and Monday with no news), but I should at least post this "team update" email which more or less explains what has happened. more...
- 2009-05-17 0806 In which the hypertwins are not engulfed in flame § Woke up abruptly at about 2 a.m. to the smell of acrid smoke, after a dream about being in an airlock (without a spacesuit) as it was slowly evacuated. more...
- 2009-05-13 0856 The Josh Report § It took me from 5:45 until about 7:15 to get Josh to school. Here's what happened. more...
Issuepedia Commentary
Click on the "specs" link for commentary, not the headline; the RSS feed generator needs some work.
- Debate tools: an experience report
2010-02-05 “Previous posts have suggested that recent software tools might hold promise for improving on "traditional" forms of argument. This kind of suggestion is often more valuable when applied to a real and relevant case study. I found the promise compelling enough to give a few tools a try...”
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- Topics: structured debate rationality Argunet
-- User:unknown 2010-02-05
[?]- The government has your baby's DNA
2010-02-04 “Many parents don't realize their baby's DNA is being stored in a government lab... "We were appalled when we found out," says Brown, who's a registered nurse. "Why do they need to store my baby's DNA indefinitely? Something on there could affect her ability to get a job later on, or get health insurance."”
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- Topics: bioethics healthcare fearmongery 2009 US healthcare reform
-- User:unknown 2010-02-04
[?]- Twelve Simple Ways to Fight This Climate Change
2010-01-30 “While we wait for Uncle Sam to take action — because after all, there's no question the global mean temperature is the province of the political class — that doesn't mean we can't do our part. ... There still are small, costly steps that we can take against this cold snap that can really make a difference:”
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- Topics: global warming denial anti-environmentalism gas-guzzling pride
-- User:unknown 2010-01-30
[?]- San Francisco's Answer to Westboro Baptist Church
2010-01-29 “Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter's San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters...”
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- Topics: Westboro Baptist Church anti-gay satire
-- User:unknown 2010-01-29
[?]- Rebutting (Again!) the 9/11 Truthers
2010-01-29 “The belief that a handful of unexplained anomalies can undermine a well-established theory lies at the heart of all conspiratorial thinking (that includes, in addition to Holocaust denial, creationism and crank theories of physics), and is easily refuted by noting that beliefs and theories are not built on single facts alone, but on a convergence of evidence from multiple lines of inquiry. All of the "evidence" for a 9/11 conspiracy falls under the rubric of this fallacy.”
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- Topics: 9-11/truth/antipathy 9-11/anomalies/debunking 9-11/anomalies/denial
-- User:unknown 2010-01-29 [?]
