Posted inStatistics
Pajamas Media Post: ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’ Fails Logic 101
Head on over to Pajamas Media for today's post. Thanks to David Steinberg for providing the title.
Posted inStatistics
Protesters gather in Copenhagen. Why?
Be sure to visit again tomorrow, for another article in this series. Time is up. Time to fight passion with calm reason. That always works, doesn't it? Those thousands of…
Posted inCulture
Gotta fear them crazy GIs
An AP article claims "Militia movement resurfaces across U.S." (link here; though this story differs from the one I read in the San Jose Mercury News). How did they come…
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I don’t want to eat protein
I suppose it was inevitable. People have been watching their 'carbs' for years, or 'carbo loading' before running a race. When I was a kid, only chemists knew what a…
Posted inCulture
Carbon coaching
In one Seinfeld episode, Kramer has joined the annual Manhattan AIDS walk but has refused to wear the symbolic twisted red ribbon. He is confronted by an angry group of…
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Blasphemy Contest winner announced
Still settling in here in the land of endless (and depressing) sunshine. More on climategate coming shortly. Two months ago, the Center for Inquiry sponsored a Blasphemy Contest. The results…
Posted inFun
What happens when Air gets angry
For no good reason I can tell, California doesn't operate on the same time schedule of New York City. It's as if they feel they don't have to play by…
Posted inBook review
Mathematicians as Comic book Superheroes
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annies Di Donna Bookhunter by Jason Shiga Can people learn…
