Madhur Jaffrey’s Durban style curried roast chicken. In her Curries & Kebabs. But you can find recipe here too thewednesdaychef.com/2006/09/05/m...
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Durban style curried roast chicken. In her Curries & Kebabs. But you can find recipe here too thewednesdaychef.com/2006/09/05/m...
There's a 1967 Candid Camera where the principal tells teachers the students will grade the teachers, including on their "inspirational qualities". Teachers reactions are impressive.... a clip:
i think i’ve seen this skeet before
::stares directly at the camera::
A timely and trenchant piece by Suresh Naidu. When future generations sift through the wreckage of our era, they’ll find it strewn with the institutional and personal failures of leaders both great and small.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
NYTimes Ed Board 1935 on Mayor La Guardia: "[He is] fond of toying with haphazard proposals that may be benevolent in intention but are dangerous or impossible in practice. He seems always to want to have in hand some socialistic plaything or other. Just now it is a municipal power plant."
Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
I've been thinking similar things since the other morning when I was on the subway and I saw a guy clearly on drugs (he made it clear by saying so) in dockers and a gingham shirt telling two strangers that their baby was so beautiful it made him want to be a father.
One thing that stood out really powerfully in last night's mayoral debate is that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander both operate from the premise that New York City is a wonderful and beautiful and precious place.
Andrew Cuomo does not.
once the bullshit goes up, who cares where it comes down? that’s not my department, says this middletown clown
One of father's greatest April Fools pranks, pre-internet, UW Law School. A fake memo from the dean in all mailboxes (Dean's initials reversed, as 4/1 clue). "Faculty campus parking assignments thereafter by lottery (exceptions for demonstrated need, handicap, age, etc):. Pandemonium ensued.
It is always hard to take your eyes off a train wreck. It is harder still when you are on the train(s).
[link to chapter: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f22m6...
We can and should of course turn to data “as tests of any idea or hypothesis that suggests itself.” But, as every honest researcher knows, it is no simple thing to confirm or disconfirm, and, as often as not, our first real discoveries are often just that we had not actually managed to “delimit the problem sufficiently to indicate what kind of solution is relevant.”77 We see in Watts—and in Turco and Zuckerman, too—some respect for the ideal-typical, if stylized, story of the scientific division of labor we all learn in elementary school, the one with Newton, an apple, and the principle of gravitation on the side of Verstehen, and some equations and predictions that we can test with experiments giving us our Erklären. For pragmatists, by contrast, this stylized story is misleading in even the most scientific of fields. We do not need to (nor should we) eschew our search for systematic social regularities, but we cannot forget that all inquiry amounts in practice to the “progressive determination of a problem and its possible solutions.”.
This idea, that causal inquiry never stands alone from Verstehen, whether in the generation or the evaluation of our hypotheses, should recall Duneier’s crack— in response to Wacquant—that “sociology is constantly criticized for documenting the ‘obvious’ when, in fact, there is more than one obvious.”73 But it gets there differently and to different effect than Watts’s own riff on this same problem, which he expresses as the claim that explanations we think are obvious “once we know the answer” have some tendency to beguile us into “thinking that we know more than we do.”74 Pragmatism, in its self-conception at least, is more worried even than Watts about what Dewey called the “cultural waste, confusion and distortion” that results from our failure to put what we think we know to practical test, by relegating “scientific (that is, competent) methods of inquiry to a specialized technical field.”75 But Dewey’s recognition that inquiry, in experience, is the progressive determination of a problem and its possible solutions led him to take seriously that “the first propositions we make as means of resolving a problem of any marked degree of difficulty are indeed likely to be too vague and coarse to be effective, just as in the story of invention of other instrumentalities, the first forms are relatively clumsy, uneconomical, and ineffective.”
[At risk of self-promotion, in 2022 CU press "The New Pragmatist Sociology" I have a chapter where, among other things, I try to explain how pragmatists think about the interplay of verstehen/erklaeren], drawing heavily on Dewey's Logic and that 1941 exchange with Russell.
[But of course, again, not exactly polisci, and not a recent/developed lit exploiting experimental/empirical turn]
As the problem progressively assumes definite shape by means of repeated acts of observation, possible solutions suggest themselves. These possible solutions are, truistically (in terms of the theory), possible meanings of the data determined in observation. The process of reasoning is an elaboration of them. When they are checked by reference to observed materials, they constitute the subject-matter of inferential propositions. The latter are means of attaining the goal of knowledge as warranted assertion, not instances or examples of knowledge. They are also operational in nature since they institute new experimental observations whose subject-matter provides both tests for old hypotheses and starting-points for new ones or at least for modifying solutions previously entertained. And so on until a determinate situation is instituted.
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178 "Data serve as tests of any idea or hypothesis that suggests itself, and in this capacity also their definiteness is required. But ... the degree and the quality of definiteness and of simplicity, or elementariness, required, are determined by the problem that evokes and controls inquiry”
178 "Propositions are vague when ... they do not delimit the problem sufficiently to indicate what kind of a solution is relevant. It is hardly necessary to say that when we don't know the conditions constituting a problem we are trying to solve, our efforts at solution at best will be fumbling..."
He gets into the problem of the "vague" proposition, the idea of a proposition wherein we're trying to figure things out and we get results that are neither true nor false, but that do help us better to formulate the problem.
It's all over his Logic. But yeah, that tome is kind of a heavy lift. Dewey has some IMO interesting argument on this in his 1941 response to Russell ("Propositions, warranted assertibility, and truth") in the Journ of Philosophy (complaining that Russell misunderstood the Logic)
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Notable too: Funders include "the NIH/NCI (1R37CA279822-01) and the Yale Cancer Center (supported by NIH/NCI research grant P30CA016359). E.B. received support from the Dana-Farber Cancer Immunology Training Program (NIH T32CA207021)."
