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...

(full vid): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svmc...

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

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.

[link to chapter: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f22m6...

[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]

180 -

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)."