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Humpty Dumpty Takes On The Sports Illustrated Curse — Guest Post by Jim Fedako

We continue our Thanksgiving week of pleasant stories, today with a guest post by Jim Fedako. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it…

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On Having Jewishness—“There Is No Permanent Cure”, Says Scholar

This, apparently, is the first draft of Donald Moss's peer-reviewed paper "On Having Jewishness", the final eventually appearing in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The original Abstract in…

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Hear Briggs Speak Free on Why You’re Doing Statistics Wrong

Hear Briggs Speak Free! Where by "Free" I mean you pay my expenses. Here are the details. Hear the One And Only William M. Briggs The Statisticians to the Stars!…

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He Did What?

Coming Soon! I've started a series called "What This-or-That Technique Really Is". First up is regression. It would have shown today, but---can you guess?---it isn't finished. I made the mistake…

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Does Second To Fourth Digit Ratio Predict You-Know-What Length?

From the storied Halls of Science comes an important new study, here abstracted from the Asian Journal of Andrology1. I apologize for the length of this excerpt, but it is…

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Interest In Penile Length Among Academics Growing

Who said Finns don't have a sense of humor? One of Finland's very own has produced the second biggest joke of the year (the first obviously being our president and…

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I’m thinking of turning to crime

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial…

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A new movie rating scheme

Most newspapers rate movies on the star system. Four to five stars are printed, and from none to all of them are colored in. Supposedly, the more stars colored, the…

Hun on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
"My argument is that I do not want to be forced to pick a side. I want nothing to do…
hudbwu on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
> Iran threatens the world with their belief that they can hasten Al-Qiyama with nuclear weapons; you have to ask…
Tars Tarkus on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
Sorry I have to tell you this Mr Briggs, but I absolutely hate the new website. It's even slower than…
Milton Hathaway on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
I appreciate your honesty, Professor Briggs, but this is just a less subtle expose' of what was plainly evident already…
hudbwu on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
> The surrounding Arb nations told the Arabs to leave because their armies were coming in to kill all the…