An outstanding polemic/manifesto from Kieran Healy on theorizing as a practice and its internal enemies. The general critiques and lessons here apply well beyond sociology: When faced with a problem.
The Open Science Collaboration's attempt at replicating 100 findings from cognitive and social psychology is up, and the headline finding is that only 36% of them succeeded, using the criterion.
Key & Peele is, like most sketch shows, hit and miss. This sketch, however, achieves brilliance. Or at least achieves making me laugh my ass off. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393"].
There was a time when I opposed trigger warnings, because I worried they'd have a chilling effect. That was the mid-90's, and the 'trigger warnings' in question were the FCC's.
Speaking of trigger warnings, a commenter on the previous thread makes what I think is a common mistake: 4. The fear (slippery-slope or not) is that trigger warnings will lead.
For some reason--perhaps laziness or force of habit, or engagingly alarmist ('new records for traffic misery!') press releases, media outlets across the country dutifully report as fact the whatever new.
Some links for your Saturday morning: JS Kaga lives again! Baby carriers are so adorable... Of course LockMart spent tax payer dollars lobbying for more tax payer dollars... Speaking of LockMart,.
Why can't Orson Welles be brought back from the dead to narrate documentaries? Had to link instead of embed because of the film's privacy settings, but it's a cool documentary.
