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Skysworn Book Review

Skysworn: Cradle Book 4 by Will Wight Kindle Edition, 257 pages Published by Hidden Gnome Publishing (September 30, 2017) ASIN B0762YQ2H8 And so we come to the end. For now. Will Wight's website says work on the next installment in the Cradle series will start after the summer

LinkFest 2016-03-26

Holy Saturday Edition Ruby Slippers Gabriel Rossman makes a persuasive case that social construction is real, but the concept is mostly used by people who don't understand it, and have no sense of proportion. How Does America "Reshore" Skills that have Disappeared? The first couple of

The Three Tracks of Criminal Enterprise

The Three Tracks Crash test dummies are the people who are too unambitious, stupid, impulsive or unreliable to ever be given serious responsibilities or achieving major power in a criminal organization. As a result, they are treated as totally expendable. Middle management types are the solid earners for the organization.

Tom Lehrer on Social Sciences

The Conscientiousness Gap

A 2006 article from the the City Journal on the Marriage Gap between more educated and less educated women got me thinking. Especially these two parts: According to the strength-in-numbers theory, then, two parents are better than one much the way two hands are better than one: they can accomplish