William M. Briggs

The Ithaca Hours, mentioned in the previous post, quantify a barter system, trading "hours worked" at one task for equivalent "hours worked" at another. For example, you might trade one…

You will have by now heard that some are advocating the use of "instant replay" in baseball. The, for lack of a better word, entities pushing for this realize its…

Nothing is true unless it has been demonstrated and published in a peer-reviewed journal. For example, until last week, many people suspected that when men look at nearly or completely…