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July
The Houston Urban Debate League is hosting Space Policy Day on August 1 from 8:00AM to 2:30PM. Of interest to students and coaches who are preparing to debate this year’s space topic, the event will feature discussions of space policy by experts in the field. The event will be webcasted live at http://www.bakerinstitute.org/events/houston-urban-debate-league-space-policy-day. Questions can [...]
24
July
Here are some demo debates I partook in at the Emory debate camp, turnabout being fair play feel free to unload the criticism in the comments/post mocking RFDs. There are 2 more that may be eventually uploaded to the wiki. Substance Debate- Phillips/Turner vs Berthiaume/Herndon K Debate- Phillips vs Turner UPDATED FOR MORE Herndon/Phillips [...]
18
July
This is a pretty funny exchange between a debater trying to find author quals and an author pretty reasonably responding to their rudeness. It reminded me of this classic when a debater emailed a think tank leader to ask if they had published a good card just to affect the outcome of a debate [...]
17
July
A recent article in the Harvard Business review offers some good responses to AT: K args about human selfishness: The biology of cooperation draws our attention because it speaks with the authority of the most reliable way we know how to know: science. If we simply say the word empathy, it sounds mushy. If [...]
15
July
From the future- BRYAN W. MARSHALL Miami University BRANDON C. PRINS University of Tennessee & Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy Power or Posturing? Policy Availability and Congressional Influence on U.S. Presidential Decisions to Use Force Presidential Studies Quarterly 41, no. 3 (September) 2011 We argue that the more important effect of [...]
13
July
And its sweet In an unprecedented “forecasting tournament,” five teams will compete to see who can most accurately predict future political and economic developments. One of the five is Tetlock’s “Good Judgment” Team, which will measure individual differences in thinking styles among 2,400 volunteers (e.g., fox versus hedgehog) and then assign volunteers to experimental conditions [...]
11
July
Hat tip to Georgia Ramachandrappa/Watson for holding onto this for so long- For those seeking access
8
July
The Emory Debate Institute has put up a new lecture on space militarization by Dan Reiter, Professor of Political Science at Emory University and former (boo) Northwestern debater.