Link Me Up, Scotty - Social Sciences Edition

Monday, September 14, 2015
Turns out not all the public servants in Kim Davis' county are afraid to follow the law. I wonder how long this dude will keep his job after all the hoopla dies down.
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Palliative care physician B.J. Miller did a TED talk about end of life discussions and how we can approach death in a way that honors life. This topic has been on my mind a lot of late, and I can also recommend "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End," by Atul Gawande.

H/T Laura
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Popehat brings up some interesting questions about the whole "Politically Correct" disclaimer.

For myself, I tend to agree with Neil Gaiman: "I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile." Word.
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An MIT professor has a theory about evolution, the second law of thermodynamics, and how the pseudoscience of "creationism" is even more boneheaded than previously believed. (Hard to believe, I know)

H/T Debbie the Librarian
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High School pal, New York Times best selling author, and all-around good egg Chris Tomlinson wrote a good article this week on bias and how it affects (or doesn't affect) business decisions. Some lessons I need to take more to heart myself.
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Hillary Clinton is cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department as it relates to her deleting e:Mails from her personal e:Mail account when she was the Secretary of State. I have a whole blog post percolating in the back of my mind on this topic, so stay tuned.
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30 inspirational posters for the introvert. My personal fave: "Keep your friends close, but not so close that they expect you to go out with them on weeknights."

H/T my fellow introvert, Kathy



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