William M. Briggs

Shocking Shockley

This week's Science (29 May edition) has an unintentionally hilarious short piece. Seems Auburn, California wanted to name a park after local-boy-done-good William Shockley, the guy who invented the transistor.…

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Informative Kindle 2 review at Amazon

Gadget Queen, an owner of a Kindle 1 and 2, posted this review of the Kindle 2 at Amazon. It confirms the suspicions I had a while back that you…

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The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part 2

Last time we showed that as the percentage of people who attend college increased, it necessarily meant that the difficulty of courses offered by colleges decreased, thus the value of…

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French woman led away in chains for refusing to be safe

I'm exaggerating only slightly. What happened was that a woman, while entering the subway, refused to hold the handrail of the escalator she was on. This is against the law…

Book review Culture

The Tree Museum — by Kathleen Kaufman

The Tree Museum Kathleen Kaufman Recommendation: don't read I have a fantasy about how humanity will be perfected when I am put in charge. Not installed bureaucratically, you understand, but…

Culture

The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part I

While surveying my number two son's final exam in meteorology (a class in which the answers are given out beforehand---in multiple choice format, of course), I recalled the old argument…

Fun

Words I hate: Part I

What follows is only the beginning of a collection of words and phrases that I loathe. When I hear them or see them in print, I am tempted to apoplexy.…

Culture Fun

Hey, Hollywood, I’ll do it for free

The Problem This relevant scene appears in an uncountable number of movies. What happens when you plunge head first through a glass window? Anybody? That's right. You die. It's you…

eddie on Trust The Models: Rare Candy PodcastOctober 18, 2024
Yes please on the class/article! You could call it "debugging humans", a topic I've recently been pondering.
Johnno on Trust The Models: Rare Candy PodcastOctober 18, 2024
"Maybe I write a separate post about this and see if there’s an interest. Let me know." WHAT??? And deprive…
C. Cotterman on Trust The Models: Rare Candy PodcastOctober 18, 2024
In fourth grade my teacher demonstrated her psychic powers to the class. She told us she was going to leave…
Rudolph Harrier on NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!October 18, 2024
People have been talking about the "problem" of underrepresentation of women in STEM for so long that we know exactly…
McChuck on Trust The Models: Rare Candy PodcastOctober 18, 2024
The Amazing Randy's foundation still offers a million dollar prize to anyone able to prove they have psychic powers. Fifty…

William M. Briggs

Trust The Models: Rare Candy Podcast

NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!

Science: Even Monkeys Can’t Stand Looking At Kamala, Yet They Predict She Wins

Happy 4th Anniversary, Price of Panic!

Class 24: What Is Randomness?

Crime Issue Reveals the Real Source of Nation’s Political Divide — Guest Post by ST Karnick

The Arrogance Of Experts As Conferred by Credentials

The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For Voting

Men Are Better Than Women

Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)

We Either Learn To Suffer Like Russians, Or We Are Lost — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Scientists Claim Keeping Men From Girls Locker Rooms Causes Men To Commit Suicide

Negative Evidence

Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”

Class 22: To The Continuum!

The Ladies Who’d Rather Brunch — Guest Post by Gaudia Certaminis

Return Of The 1970s!

Solzhenitsyn, Communism, Miracles & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

Class 21: Probability Of Hypotheses (Bayes)

A Theory Of Mis- & Disinformation & Its Uses In Propaganda

Clintel essay: Pope Francis’ Climate Crusade or the erosion of faith in God

Trust The Models: Rare Candy Podcast

NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!

Shocking Shockley

Informative Kindle 2 review at Amazon

The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part 2

French woman led away in chains for refusing to be safe

The Tree Museum — by Kathleen Kaufman

The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part I

Words I hate: Part I

Hey, Hollywood, I’ll do it for free

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification