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This week's magazine | The Three Brexiteers

Edit New Statesman 08 Sep 2016
A first look at this week's issue. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">. The Three Brexiteers. 9 - 15 September issue. Cover story. The Three Brexiteers. Simon Heffer on the squabbling trio of ministers negotiating Britain's exit from the EU. *Plus* ... Politics ... **** ... When I studied logic we were asked to deconstruct the workings of the syllogism by considering propositions of the form....

Roaming Charges: Prime Time Green

Edit CounterPunch 19 Aug 2016
Give CNN just a little credit. On Wednesday night, they hosted a Town Hall featuring Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka. In those 90 Prime Time minutes, Stein and Baraka presented a clearer picture of the realities and consequences of US foreign policy and militarism than we heard from Bernie Sanders in a year’s worth of speeches ... Stein didn’t blink, saying ... From ... ===. Robert Naiman ... Work out that political syllogism....

Zombie Apocalypse? The University of South Carolina has that covered

Edit The Miami Herald 11 Aug 2016
In 2011, USC made international news by offering a course on Lady Gaga. While that class is no longer available, there are plenty of interesting and bizarre courses students can enroll in, on topics ranging from cyborg literature to “The Hunger Games.” Psychology of the Zombie Apocalypse ... Anthropology of Alcohol. This course examines the role of alcohol in society ... B ... (SOST 298)Syllogism, Stasis, and a Gamecock Sandstorm ... (GEOG 345) ....

Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies international conference at Vanderbilt Aug. 15-18 August 5, 2016 (Vanderbilt University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Aug 2016
(Source. Vanderbilt University). The 17th International Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies will be held at Vanderbilt from 15-18 August ... The conference is open to the Vanderbilt community and the Nashville community at large. Schedule of events.. Monday 15 August ... Panel Chair ... Aviram Ravitsky, Ariel University Aristotelian Syllogism and the Skeptical Critique of its Reasons, in the Legal Thought of Ya'qub al-Qirqisani Dr....

Khizr Khan Really Needs to Chill and Contemplate Who is Responsible for His Son’s Death; ...

Edit Dissident Voice 04 Aug 2016
I have never seen a political convention exploit dead children like this year’s DNC ... And we’ve got the Mad Muslim from Maryland, Khizr Khan, who has gone mega-viral by turning his hero son’s death into a self-righteous rant against Donald Trump. It is a PR tactic, I suspect, that is more related to Mr ... This ex-Marine is not buying this self-righteous, political bunk ... If Mr ... Mr. Khan’s syllogism is this ... and Mrs ... Khan....

What the DNC Hack Could Mean for Democracy

Edit The Atlantic 02 Aug 2016
Analysts largely agree that the hacking of various arms of the Democratic Party, and the release of hacked emails that deepened divisions with the party just ahead of its presidential convention, is a big deal. But there’s less agreement about whether what we’re witnessing is fundamentally old or new ... Put simply ... “It follows almost like a syllogism that non-forcible techniques that are equally intrusive should be equally prohibited ... U.S....

It Is Not Plagiarism, Y’all

Edit CounterPunch 22 Jul 2016
I must admit that numbers, math, algebra and statistics have always been my Achilles’ heel. And McGill University physics professor’s stats confound me. The Online Digg (via Huffington Post) headline reads. “Physicist ... I am even more confounded by these baffling numbers and the extricated syllogism ... And, for the record, this is not, repeat, not an endorsement of Hillary ... Oops, these phrases should have been huddled in quotation marks! ... ....

Syllogisms for the 2016 race

Edit The Washington Post 15 Jul 2016
Danielle Allen has suggested that Americans return to our roots as logicians by embracing the syllogism (an argument with two premises that lead logically to a conclusion) to describe the 2016 election. She suggested the example. It is necessary that a president understand the art of democracy. But Trump does not understand the art of […]> ... ....

Hacking Mr. Robot

Edit Slate 14 Jul 2016
Slate and Future Tense are discussing Mr. Robot and the technological world it portrays throughout the show’s second season. You can follow this conversation on Future Tense, and Slate Plus members can also listen to Hacking Mr. Robot, a members-only podcast series featuring Lily Hay Newman and Fred Kaplan. Mr ... As the new season opens, the world is in chaos ... Robot ... The creators of Mr ... But the basic syllogism of contemporary life, Mr ... ....

Nepali Bhasha Andolan, circa 1960s

Edit Darjeeling Times 13 Jul 2016
Cognitive Dissonance ... Courtesy ... From its fount of the Khas Kura in the remote north-western Buddhist Khasan Nepal to its mid-western Gorkhali bastion to the all-embracive modern Nepali to being the provincial Gorkha Bhasha as Darjeeling Gorkhaland's lingua magna mater, it is the Nepali language's long historical odyssey that is still in the vortex of cognitive dissonance and polarised and vested syllogisms and solipsism ... ....

A way for Americans to return to our roots as a thinking people

Edit The Washington Post 12 Jul 2016
To deal with the current election season, we would do well to return to our roots as a thinking people. In the 18th century, colonial Americans trained their minds on syllogisms. These were forms of logical argument consisting of two premises that lead necessarily to a conclusion. Americans learned these from popular handbooks, for instance, […]> ... ....

The beets go on: 4 recipes for a versatile vegetable

Edit Boston Herald 11 Jul 2016
Don’t listen to the naysayers. It is perfectly possible for someone who does not like beets to go on and lead a productive life, probably. O A distaste for beets does not absolutely guarantee a dreary existence of loneliness and despair ... O But really, the surest way to find joy and love is to eat beets ... But more important than that, they taste good ... I started with the dip first, following the rationale of this syllogism ... Yield ... 1 ... 2 ... 3....

The Story of Ernestor

Edit The Atlantic 08 Jul 2016
After our first pass through Dodge City two weeks ago, I reported that the mood there, in a part of the United States that is very heavily affected by Latino immigration, was at strong variance with the “build a wall” / “take our country back” tone of Donald Trump’s campaign ... This is especially so in the “triangle” of Kansas cities that dominate the meat-packing and feedlot industry ... The syllogism we heard from him and many others was....
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