William M. Briggs

If Nothing Is Something, A Universe Can Come From Nothing

Somebody asked a Ph.D. astrophysicist, author, and science communicator over at Forbes "Can We Really Get A Universe From Nothing?" The biggest question that we're even capable of asking, with…

Culture

Self-Bugging: Say Hi To The NSA For Me!

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. ---Cardinal Richelieu You heard…

Statistics

Reader Question: Sinking Feeling Organizational Psychology May Have Fundamental Flaws

From reader Paul comes this important question (I eliminated personal information to keep the reader's anonymity): I'm reading through your book, "Uncertainty" and while I enjoy the philosophical approach to…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Both God And You Can Move Your Will

Previous post. God is still in charge. THAT THE MOVEMENT OF THE WILL IS CAUSED BY GOD AND NOT ONLY THE POWER OF THE WILL 1 Some people, as a…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Who’s George Washington? Edition

Item Move to erase George Washington mural sparks firestorm among Dems A San Francisco school board decision to spend $600,000 to paint over a New Deal-era mural of George Washington…

Philosophy

How Can Any Religion Have A Monopoly On Truth?

Soak this up (emphasis original): By the time she turned up in New York, [Justina Walford's] faith had long since unraveled, a casualty of overseas travel that made her question…

Statistics

What’s The Probability Of A Nuclear War?

For readers in a hurry, here's the answer: There is no probability of a nuclear war. Nor of a conventional one. Nor even of you being victor in your next…

Statistics

The Big Worldwide Strike

Ignorant, a. Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. [1913 Webster] Recall a group of ignorant kiddies skipped school a while back in order to shake their wee fists…

Johnno on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
Looks like even Putin is worried for Trump, and understands what's happening in America better than the blues voting 'Muricans.…
Chaeremon on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
the [geopolitical] state of affairs does not evolve by trying the same thing again to get better results (aka idiocy…
C-Marie on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
Remember, Jesus Christ is the only Saviour. Be His. Believe Him. Trust Him. Have full confidence in Him. Here is…
Paul Murphy on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
where to start.. 1 - I think the Chinese conspiracy vision of what's going on between Russia and the EU/US…
Michael Dowd on Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto WattNovember 29, 2024
Alternate essay topic based on Trump hiring war mongering types for his administration. He did this because he and his…

William M. Briggs

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass

Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health

The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing

What Science Can Say About Vaccines: And What It Can’t Say

Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert

Class 29: Nothing Has A Distribution

Women Let Him Win — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In Science

Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way?

Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their Prestige

Class 28: Randomization Redux (Randomization Does Nothing)

If We Are What We Sexually Desire, How About These Curious People?

What The Covid Panic Did To Science

We Win

See You On The Other Side

Class 27: Probability Is In Your Mind, Not Things

How Tim Walz Did Not Know Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

If Nothing Is Something, A Universe Can Come From Nothing

Self-Bugging: Say Hi To The NSA For Me!

Reader Question: Sinking Feeling Organizational Psychology May Have Fundamental Flaws

Summary Against Modern Thought: Both God And You Can Move Your Will

The Week In Doom — Who’s George Washington? Edition

How Can Any Religion Have A Monopoly On Truth?

What’s The Probability Of A Nuclear War?

The Big Worldwide Strike

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification