A Theory Of School Killings

In a word:  contagion.

Tough Math Puzzle Explained

Another video from 3blue1brown. This neatly visualizes a tough problem from a tough test, and isn’t too long. Very nice.

Bonus: A short Habanera for violin and piano from our musical admiral, Jean Cras.

Bummer of a birthmark

Larsson

Cillizza

Fooling Sonar

With the right shape and materials.

On Rye

Here.

Heather MacDonald

Some excerpts on campus delusions. 11 worthwhile minutes.

Survey says ...

I am not much of a fan of survey science, but this one has so much appeal ... those most vocal about global warming are the least likely to do anything about it.

A Quotation from The New Yorker

Black studies is a dehiscence at the heart of the institution on its edge; its broken, coded documents sanction walking in another world while passing through this one, graphically disordering the administered scarcity from which black studies flows as wealth.

No, I am not making this up.

Beatings will continue until morale improves

Women at NBC feel the heat. I have no idea if Brokaw is guilty, but I have few doubts NBC is.

Cras Quintet

Jean Cras was a French naval officer who eventually rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. he was also a composer.

Class Struggle in SF

One of my beliefs is that the Left in America is trying to create a class society of the English kind. Example.
UPDATE: Bi-coastal

World's Worst Plumber

“That's not a leak.”

Jaron Lanier

An interesting interview. If you find it tl;dr scroll to the last bit, what's worst about social media.

Yorkshire man jailed 8 months for giving cops the finger

Here.

The dog faked my homework

Here.

UPDATE: Greenwald connects the dots.

Le mot juste

Ici.

The more he spoke of his honor

... the faster we counted the spoons.

UPDATE: Forks too.
UPDATE: Knives.