Razib Khan

Month: August 2010

  • Daily Data Dump – Thursday

    Why Do Foreigners Like Fanta So Much? I arrived in the USA as a pre-schooler, but the disappearance of Fanta from my life is actually something I wondered about back then. I had no idea that it was a Nazi-origin drink. Chew on This: Six Dental Myths Debunked. You probably know some of these. But…

  • Social science isn’t “science”?

    Update: The title is way too strong as a reflection of my opinion. I’ve added a question mark. A friend once observed that you can’t have engineering without science, making the whole concept of “social engineering” somewhat farcical. Jim Manzi has an article in City Journal which reviews the checkered history of scientific methods as…

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