Thursday, January 11, 2024

Our Month (August) in Hawaii (Including Lahaina)

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For nearly a year, we had been planning to spend the month of August in Maui. Deanne was taking the entire month off; Sean would work part-t...
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Thursday, December 14, 2023

25 (make that 26) Christmas Movies for the Holiday Season

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Here's my annual post of Christmas movies worth watching this holiday season. Not all are technically "Christmas" movies, but ...
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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Homelessness is a Housing Supply Problem

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Imagine two games of musical chairs. In both, half of the participants are wearing blindfolds. However, in one, only one chair is removed wh...
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Thursday, October 12, 2023

The 100-Win Teams Are Out

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Major League Baseball's top teams during the regular season - the Atlanta Braves (104 wins), the Baltimore Orioles (101 wins), and the L...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

BIRGing (Basking in Reflected Glory): How Our Social Identities Affect Our Perceptions

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In a study back in the 1970s, researchers found that people are more likely to wear team paraphernalia after “their” team wins than win it l...
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Saturday, July 22, 2023

Social Media and Political Polarization

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In a recent paper about the QAnon conversation on Twitter (“ A Network Analysis of Twitter’s Crackdown on the QAnon Conversation ”), Dan Cun...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

25 Christmas Movies for the Holiday Season

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Here's my annual post of Christmas movies worth watching this holiday season. Not all are technically "Christmas" movies, but ...