William M. Briggs

I have to hand it to the trio of "doctors" who wrote the peer-reviewed NEJM paper "Contextualizing the Dead Donor Rule in an Era of Voluntary Euthanasia". They didn't seek…

Let's take something silly and turn it into something shiny. And, in doing so, relearn the invaluable lesson that nothing has a probability. Somebody posted this receipt from a sale…

One thing I didn't take precaution against was my own stupidity. A marvelous and constant, menacing thing you would think that, if anybody, I would have been ready for. You…

Next time you slide a Pringle over your tonsils, blame God. It was your unhealthy attitude to religion that made you crave that Oreo. Your inability to think proper thoughts…

You will have heard that David Hume claimed ethical oughts cannot be derived from any factual is (empirical observation). This is called Hume's Guillotine, presumably for the great number of…

Before we get to our story, my deep and profound thanks to readers for getting us higher in the ranks. I am most grateful. I logged on Saturday and saw…

Here is a picture that does not seem to matter much: They are all well known rulers of various localities (I almost said nations). The modern ones in the bottom…

Forgive me, I beg, the odd, breezy posting schedule this week. I reasoned that many would still be on vacation and wanted to save the (for a word) denser material…