William M. Briggs

From Jerry Pournelle (What? You haven't read Lucifer's Hammer yet?) on how just about everybody making bets in the financial markets were wrong. This "everybody" includes very highly educated, extraordinarily…

I've been taking the past few days and building an Index for the my "101" book. It is painstaking, meticulous...well, excruciatingly dull work. But it's nearly done. This is slowing…

Today, a topic that I mean to expand---greatly---in the coming weeks. That theme, as you might has guessed, is too many people are too certain about too many things. Nothing…

I want to ask a favor of my regular readers and of those who occasionally come here to seek an alternate view. You can help me spread the word. Yesterday,…