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The Sad End Of Radio
I was driving north up through the middle of the state, a hundred mile stretch of not much, trying to find the Tigers on the radio. Not only could I…
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Let’s Play A Game Of Let’s Suppose!
Let's suppose a group of men formed a brotherhood. Suppose this group is exclusive and entirely extra-governmental, a group with no or only tacit official support. Suppose the men fund…
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Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)
Here in this Fun Fourth run up are some puzzles to tease out your "IQ". Only those with high "IQ"s will get them, so beware! Try them all first before…
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How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?
Since this is typically the slowest week of the year---even Christmas is busier---this is a good time to introduce something strange. About twenty years ago I wrote a skeptical (do…
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Class 56: The Best Model!
The best model is no model! Display your data instead. We bring cause to models, we do not extract cause from models. Models do not say what happened: what happened…
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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification
Sabine Hossenfelder released a video in which she said, "Now that Science told me I can't make any choices, I make better choices." Or words to that effect. She wants…
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England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women
You will have heard about the slow-motion suicide of the English has now made mandatory by their rulers, who evidently have grown tired of living with each other. And, since…
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On The Probability Of God
Every so often people return to the "probability of God." Here are three men doing that. They worry about "priors" and "posteriors" and all the heavy apparatus of probability theory…
