William M. Briggs

So-Called Random Numbers And Encryption: Update With Real-World Example

Psst. Hey, buddy. Word to the wise: "GQNZWZURUDPBFWDMEGBYIXGBGZRSVNHWOIQPPSH GXUVMZ". Keep it secret. That odd string of letters and spaces (well, once space) contains an encrypted message. In order to read…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Celestial Bodies Don’t Influence Our Bodies

Previous post. Today we start the second part of Book Three. Only another year and a half or so to go in Book Three. Then, finally, Book four! Our intellects…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Reality Based Ads Banned Edition

This has been a most busy week, the Doom accelerating, which accounts for the length of this post. Item The Case for Gay Reparation (NYT) Other countries are taking steps…

Statistics

Case Study Of How Easy It Is To Go Wrong

We used to talk a lot about the amygdala here: Yet Another Study "Proves" Liberal, Conservative Brain Differences (wee ps, amygdalas), Scientists Suddenly Discover Men Don't Understand Women (wee ps,…

Culture

Transgender Madness Update

It is impossible for a man to become a woman. It is possible, and growing more frequent, for a man to pretend to be or to believe he is a…

Culture

Close Down Old Universities And Build Our Own?

Roger Scruton has called for dumping universities as they currently exist. Scrap them altogether, he says. At least dynamite the state-sponsored ones (in England). Most universities are state-sponsored, though. At…

Culture

Pope: Support One-World Government (And Corporations) Or Die

Quick! Dig into those couch cushions, sneak into the kids room and hack into their phones for their Bitcoin addresses, open a front-lawn gluten-free shaming station to fine passersby for…

Culture

Witchcraft Is Spellbinding To Our Elites

Many will argue it was inevitable that women's "liberation" would give rise to witchcraft. Women have a greater need than men for the emotional, especially in matters of love and…

Johnno on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 16, 2025
What if instead of real monkeys, scientists did the most sciency thing possible, where they opt to run an artificial…
Uncle Mike on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
What's the probability of Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, aka RuBisCo, arising by chance from the Primordial Goo? RuBisCo is the enzyme that…
Jim Fedako on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
Sorry, Briggs. I’ve watched enough new TV shows and movies, plus read enough social media posts, to know there are…
Johnno on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 15, 2025
But a finite number of monkeys voting an infinite amount of times will eventually produce utopia, right?
Robert Sides on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 15, 2025
1. After more State fascism, a European nation will face a largely populist overthrow after a Solidarity (Polish) sized upheaval.…

William M. Briggs

More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t Enough

Surgeon General Demands Label War Against Wine

Class 34: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology III

England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”

Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)

Environmental Experts To Rip Out Trees, Build Solar Electric Plant In Snow Belt To “Save The Environment”

Class 33: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology II

Register Your Predictions For 2025!

Happy New Year!

How Did We Do In Our 2024 Predictions?

Hot New The Science: Kids Are Having Climate Emotions

Merry Christmas!

The Lesson Scientists Never Learn

House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science Panics

Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?

As Woke Falls, What Rises?

Class 32: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology I (All Should Read)

Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?

How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)

Science Model Told To Say Masks Work Discovers Masks Work

In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)

More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t Enough

Surgeon General Demands Label War Against Wine

So-Called Random Numbers And Encryption: Update With Real-World Example

Summary Against Modern Thought: Celestial Bodies Don’t Influence Our Bodies

The Week In Doom — Reality Based Ads Banned Edition

Case Study Of How Easy It Is To Go Wrong

Transgender Madness Update

Close Down Old Universities And Build Our Own?

Pope: Support One-World Government (And Corporations) Or Die

Witchcraft Is Spellbinding To Our Elites

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