I love The Book with No Pictures (by B.J. Novak of The Office fame). Kids love it; great for parents who like to go full Voice Actor during bedtime stories (ahem); and a devious way of torturing any parent friends who aren't into the whole dramatic-performance-at-bedtime thing.

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Why do we keep looking for another habitable planet? Wouldn’t it be easier to keep Earth habitable? Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They’re Out There. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/s...

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Unclear what’s causing it? How can you be so obtuse?

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🚨 Public good alert: I put together a list of 100+ free datasets for social science research, spanning a large number of topics. I hope it's useful for students, researchers, and anyone looking for interesting data to explore. It's on GitHub - contributions welcome! github.com/toddrjones/d...

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Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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