It's Friday and time for more Chet the musician 'bittersweet' was coined for. Looking forward to seeing the biopic Born to be Blue that was released in the UK earlier this week. Chet is another example of the rule that a great artist is allowed to be an arschloch. The same rule does not apply to academics. Tenderly.
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The political economy of Manus AI - Early reports are pretty consistent, and they indicate that Manus agentic AI is for real, and ahead of its American counterparts. I also hear it is stil...8 hours ago
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C4P: AMLI 2025 - The fifth conference on Approaches to Migration, Language, and Identity (AMLI 2025) takes place at Liverpool Hope University from Monday 8th to Tuesday 9th...2 days ago
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Cautionary Tales – Would You Trust a Gangster Nanny? - Do we trust our fitness trackers too much? How do fraudsters gain our faith? Why do people trust podcasters? And would you trust a drug dealing nanny with ...2 days ago
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Women of the world unite – 50 years of UN Women - Women of the world unite draws on the collections in The Women’s Library at LSE to highlight the UN Decade for Women, which began in 1975 with the first ...4 days ago
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Current UK stagnation may have many causes, but one we know about is the UK media. Plus why the UK definition of a recession is no longer fit for purpose. - [image: Current UK stagnation may have many causes, but one we know about is the UK media. Plus why the UK definition of a recession is no longer fit for p...5 days ago
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Leisurely Cruise February 2025: power, shpower, positive predictive value - The following is the February stop of our leisurely cruise (meeting 6 from my 2020 Seminar at the LSE). There was a guest speaker, Professor David Hand. Sl...1 week ago
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Location Filming on Women Gladiators - A few weeks ago, Barney Rowe, a brilliant young TV producer specializing in factual history, asked if I could join his team at Tomos TV who are making...
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Resonators and kindred frauds - Googling ‘bioresonance therapy’ produces a large number of hits. One of the first comes from the Oxford Chiropractic Clinic, which says “Bioresonance is o...3 weeks ago
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Why Labour are already at high risk of losing the next election - By Stephen Fisher, 7th February 2025 The government is only seven months old. Nonetheless, opinion polls show that Labour support has dropped by massive 9 ...4 weeks ago
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Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science reformers: A peek behind the curtain - One interesting sidelight of the story of a much criticized and finally retracted article on replication in psychology is that we get to read some of the r...1 month ago
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Web-scraping, survey data and Irish attitudes to immigration - This blog describes an ongoing research project which uses both survey data (from the European Social Survey) and web-scraping (of Google News data via Ser...11 months ago
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Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...1 year ago
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Some news links: Montréal & Calcutta migration, Chinese languages, former Soviet Union, borders - La Presse notes that suburbanization proceeds in Montréal, as migration from the island of Montréal to off-island suburbs grows. This is of perhaps particu...6 years ago
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The Harsh Truth About India’s Godmen - Late last month, two Indian states and the national capital were upended by rioting mobs protesting their spiritual leader’s conviction on two counts of ...7 years ago
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How do the world’s biggest drug companies compare, in their transparency commitments? - Here’s a paper, and associated website, that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare th...7 years ago
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The US Treasury’s missed opportunity - The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US financial system ...7 years ago
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Enrolment as an Excuse? On the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility Postponement - Women’s mean age at first birth steeply increased by as many as 4–5 years during the second half of the twentieth century throughout Europe and the United ...8 years ago
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