Just something quick today; I mean written quickly. Typo alert! Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published “Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books“, in which are various observations that appear to verify […]
Predictions of E-Books And Reading Verified?
How To Guarantee Enthusiastic College Students
I Didn’t Do My Homework Apathy is contagious. I discovered this after only two of the forty-five students registered for the statistics class I teach bothered to do their homework over the […]
Reading Lyrics by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
First, thanks, Google. Aren’t you all sweethearts. 10100 != F1 + F4 + F6 + F9. Reading Lyrics: More than a thousand of the finest lyrics from 1900 to 1975. A Celebration […]
USDA Bans Delicacy? Pork Blood Cake Candles Snuffed Out
Continuing our popular theme of pig innards, we focus today on blood, and prove that there is a little vampire in all of us. Yet our bureaucrats seek to disguise their nature. […]
The Mathematics of Boneless Pork Rectums
Ever wonder what’s in those delicious dumplings? What gives them that special tang? The flavor that cannot quite be named? Wonder no further! For the secret has been revealed. And the secret […]
The Sports Illustrated curse and regression to the mean
Due to overwhelming demand, today’s column is a classic reprint. This originally appeared on 18 January 2008. The headlines of today’s New York Daily News is CURSES! It seems the New York […]
The Tolerance Paradox
First, our official definition of a paradox: A puzzle concocted with premises we know are false but which lead to a conclusion we wish were true. Thus, because the conclusion is something […]
Causality: Guest Post by DAV
Today’s guest post, on a subject dear to us all, is by long-time reader (and now contributor) DAV. While fencing in many of the Web’s blogs it’s not uncommon to encounter the […]
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