There is a typo in the title. Not the negative. That's supposed to be there. We really do have negative time to save the planet. The typo, or rather inaccuracy,…

We talked many times of the expansion effect. A small core of experts, real and true great (or at least good) minds on some subject, are injected by design with…

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…

Neil Ferguson and his Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team colleagues scared the world silly in mid-March. They announced they ran a sophisticated epidemiological model which said Doom was on the…

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1260234198578802690 "Trust science!" says Deng (lower down in the thread). Isn't science self-correcting? "Yes, that's why it's so great." Then science is sometimes wrong? "Well, yes, sometimes." So how do…

Going a day early with the update because of the news about death counts. Also, I want everybody to pay attention: memorize the next paragraph. You hear things like this:…

Most people do not use, and do not need to use, any form of mathematics higher than addition and subtraction, and in rarer cases in multiplying and dividing simple numbers.…