William M. Briggs

I picked a lousy (slow, pre-Fourth) day to post a criticism of "IQ" last week, and badly titled it "Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)". Something like…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…