First read Wisdom of the Crowds (and Voting). There are in this great land of ours some 315 million souls. Citizens, I mean. Another 12 millions (or so) are, as the euphemism […]
Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part II
Update 4 Too late. 10 October 2013. Update 4 Moved this to top because the bill allowing non-doctors to perform abortions is on Gov. Brown’s desk. He’ll likely sign, but those who […]
Global Warming To Cause New Crisis. What Will It Be?
Seems the Arctic ice sheet has refused to do what it was told by computer models. The models “conservatively” insisted the ice would be gone entirely by 2013, yet the darn stuff […]
The Supraterranean War On Sanity: Scientists Versus Civilians
Cast your mind back to 1980. Nobody, not a soul, knew that gaspers, coffin nails, and cancer sticks were bad for you.1 Tobacco companies used an advanced form of mind control (the […]
What Can We Learn From A Crude Model Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases?
It’s Statistical Modeling Day, so let’s look at one dealing with sexually transmitted diseases. Why this subject? Well, according to New York’s CBS 2, “Study Shows Soaring STD Rates In Many Areas […]
Obesity Is Now A “Disease”
No surprise that diseases are political. What are we marching “against” this week? Never mind. What you might not have known is that how the word is applied is decided by politics. […]
Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat?
The title was taken from the CNS News story of the same name, which made ripples in the news yesterday (Drudge linked to it). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded […]
Six Rules For Wearing Suits For Beginners
I was looking through the Fedora Lounge and somebody asked whether Details’s “The Complete Guide to Suits: 57 Rules of Style” were of any use. I thought not. There were too many […]
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