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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Another Reason To Abandon P-values; Or Another Way To Cheat
If you're a scientist, soft or hard, who routinely uses statistics, it's likely that your funding, and therefore your career, the very wellness of your being hinges on discovering statistically…
Posted inPhilosophy
Supreme Court To Rule On Obamacare
The Supreme Court is taking on Obamacare. There are many questions to be decided, but the largest is the so-called individual mandate. Some have suggested that the mandate is equivalent…
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Contingency, Causality, Determinism, And Free Will
In thinking about what probability means, it's important to sort out what is contingent and what relationship contingent events have to causality. Contingency simply means that what is could have…
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Priceless Now Means Of No Value
It used to be, when the world was not much younger, priceless meant of incalculable value or beyond price; of things removed from the monetary realm, of things intemporal. Priceless…
