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Watched June 28, 2019 Border crisis jolts Congress, recapping the Democratic debates from Washington Week
The panelists recapped the latest developments with the ongoing crisis at the border, analyzed this week's Democratic presidential debates, and previewed President Donald Trump's weekend meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit. Note: All debate footage courtesy of NBC News.
Annotated Mrs. Custer’s Tennyson by William Logan (newcriterion.com)
Those who read with pen in hand form a species nearly extinct. Those who read the marginal notes of readers past form a group even smaller. Yet when we write in antiphonal chorus to what we’re reading, we engage in that conversation time and distance otherwise make impossible. ❧

📺 "Broadchurch" Episode #3.6 | ITV/BBC America

Watched "Broadchurch" Episode #3.6 from ITV/BBC America
Directed by Lewis Arnold. With Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Oskar McNamara, Julie Hesmondhalgh. Ellie and Hardy bring in Ed Burnett for questioning. In a search of his premises, Ellie finds devastating new evidence linking him to the crime.
This seems like a wild goose chase to fill some time until the finale. But it’s at least an interesting and well motivated goose chase.

Watched on Netflix

🔖 [1703.04184v2] A Theory for Gender Differences in Variability by Theodore P. Hill and Sergei Tabachnikov

Bookmarked [1703.04184v2] A Theory for Gender Differences in Variability by Theodore P. Hill, Sergei Tabachnikov (arxiv.org)
A selectivity theory is proposed to help explain how one gender of a species might tend to evolve with greater variability than the other gender. Briefly, the theory says that if one sex is relatively selective, then more variable subpopulations of the opposite sex will tend to prevail over those with lesser variability; and conversely, if one sex is relatively non-selective, then less variable subpopulations of the opposite sex will tend to prevail over those with greater variability. This theory makes no assumptions about differences in means between the sexes, nor does it presume that one sex is selective and the other non-selective. Two mathematical models are presented: a statistical analysis using normally distributed fitness values, and a deterministic analysis using a standard system of coupled ordinary differential equations with exponentially distributed fitness levels. The theory is applied to the classical greater male variability hypothesis.

📅 RSVP to Innovate Pasadena Friday Coffee Meetup: Ghosted

RSVPed Might be attending Innovate Pasadena Friday Coffee Meetup: Ghosted
Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 8:15 AM People often dream of moving on from their corporate job to start their own "thing". This often includes the hope that they can do something better for the world then what they are doing for the corporation. We will cover the good, bad and ugh-ly of making the transition from the corporate world to making a difference through social entrepreneurship.

📺 "The West Wing" Duck and Cover | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" Duck and Cover from Netflix
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Alan Alda, Kristin Chenoweth, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. A nuclear accident in California sends the White House and both campaigns into overdrive. Meanwhile, China and Russia appear headed for a showdown over elections and oil in Kazakhstan.

🎧 Lecture 2: Malthus and Manchu Hubris, 1730–1800 | The Fall and Rise of China by Richard Baum

Listened to Lecture 2: Malthus and Manchu Hubris, 1730–1800 by Richard Baum from The Fall and Rise of China

Complex social and economic forces ended China's millennium of supremacy as an empire. Learn about the empire's era of global exploration, followed by long, complacent isolationism. Then chart the economic strain of the 18th-century population explosion and the effects of European economic expansion and the opium trade.

Weird Flickr URL Trick

Read Weird Flickr URL Trick by Alan Levine (CogDogBlog)

I present to you a URL oddity of no significant value. Impress and amaze your friends.

And it happened pretty much because of a typo.

Ok, here is a URL for one of my recent photos (I kind of like it) (shameless self promotion):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/32331643261/

It’s a normal, current flickr page:

Now… add an extraneous extra slash at the end of the same URL:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/32331643261//

Woah, it’s the previous flickr design layout!

Note: Logic might assume I could keep slashing back in time to the original white small square design, but alas no.

What use is this? Dunno.

But it is curious. And quirky.

That’s my kind of internet.