A lot of wrist-twisting and hand-wringing over Mike McQueary’s actions after he came across Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the showers. McQueary, who Mark Steyn reminds us […]
Studies Show Mike McQueary Did What You Would Have Done
A Black Day Indeed: To Be Thankful For Shopping (Updated)
It is something of a tradition at this blog to commemorate the annual plunge into the depths of mindless materialism and conspicuous consumerism which we call “Black Friday.” It is also that […]
Happy Thanksgiving
We are all thankful for many things, but let’s pause to be especially grateful for Bing Crosby, who can make even silly lyrics sound good: For wonderfully bad jokes like this: And […]
Something To Be Thankful For: Climategate 2.0
Thanks to Mr, or Mrs, Anonymous, that generous individual who has graced us with a new batch of emails from the world’s top climate scientists. These new missives are guaranteed to generate […]
Romney’s Obama Number
Physicists calculate what is called the “Einstein Number.”1 It is a measure of closeness. If you published a paper with that most celebrated scientist, you have an Einstein Number of 1. If […]
The Selfish Genes Of Dennett’s Atheists
If you’re not busy this December 2nd and 3rd, and happen to be in the Buffalo area, you might drop in on the Center for Inquiry’s symposium “Daniel Dennett and the Scientific […]
UFOs in Taiwan
There are a lot of scoffers out there, UFO wise. We are told by our intellectual betters that flying saucers do not exist, that only ignorant hicks and poor country folk self-deluded […]
Inuitionist Math & Probability: Riemann Hypothesis Example
The principium tertii exclusi, the principle or law of the excluded middle, what is that? If there is a proposition B then it is either the case that B is true or […]
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