William M. Briggs

https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/862393511622184960 Here are some interesting numbers. Citation counts are our primary measure of a paper's scholarly impact, and yet citation counts on average are distressingly low. By one count, 12…

Eschewing the spare, sloppy raiment that looked like it was fished out of dumpster behind a Goodwill that had gone out of business a long while back, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg…

This year marks the 500th Anniversary of the protest which split an already split Christianity. Let's instead think of what we have in common, says Watt, both in faith and…

"The conceptual penis as a social construct" is a peer-reviewed paper by two fellows who used fake names, published in the journal Cogent Social Sciences. The real authors were Peter…

So it looks like singer Katy Perry enjoys eating people. Not raw, which would represent an old-fashioned and suburban sort of cannibalism. But prepared in various artistic ways set to…

How's this for an argument? Forced and enforced diversity is our weakness. Diversity kills. Since it is obvious to even the meanest intellect that diversity is our weakness and that…