Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas • TopPop
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Daily Archives: February 18, 2026
Late Night Music Fix
Campus Map
University of Iowa
Comedy Break
I Thought This Was America (Montage) – South Park
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Quote, Unquote
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Midday Music Fix
Tom Cochrane – White Hot
Behind The Vinyl: “White Hot” with Tom Cochrane
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Quote, Unquote
Via Don’t Trust the Rankings That Put China’s Universities on Top published by The New York Times on February 11, 2026
The gap between the rankings and reality can be explained by Goodhart’s law, which says that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. It’s like trying to cure a fever by icing the thermometer: You’ve cooled the instrument, but the patient is still burning up.
~ Ariel Procaccia
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Campus Map
Yukon University
Campus Trivia Night
How has Japan’s population changed over the last five years?
Via the Demographics of Japan by way of Wikipedia:
- 2019 = 126,555,000
- 2020 = 126,146,099 (−408,901)
- 2021 = 125,502,000 (−644,099)
- 2022 = 124,947,000 (−555,000)
- 2023 = 124,352,000 (−595,000)
- 2024 = 123,802,000 (−550,000)
Bullet list shows total population is each of the last six years followed by absolute numeric decline in population in brackets.
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