Posted inCulture

Can You Read My Mind?

Ghosts, ESP, telekinesis, astrology, and other assorted oddities are back in view. One of the "SyFy" channel's most popular series is a show about hunting apparitions. The movie Men Who…
Posted inStatistics

Poem Code Challenge Hint

In the last post, reader George suggested a challenge to see whether or not short poem codes would be easy to "break"; that is, decrypt without access to the original…
Posted inFun

Vegetarian Swallow Balls

I went shopping in Chinatown and found these delicacies, which match well with the vegetarian intestines I found last year. Enjoy these---hand slaughtered!---treats on one of the last weekends of…
Posted inStatistics

You were right, Ted Kennedy

One day in 1973, in his squeaky, pickled-vocal-chords baritone Ted Kennedy filled the Senate chamber with these words: "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or…
Posted inFun

New and really improved!

This time I mean it. The weekend's experiment was too slick, but this one is just right: it balances the need for easy access to articles with being able to…