Search Results for “global warming” – Page 68

Statistics as Beauty; Global Warming Miscellany; SATs Biased?; More

Statistics is Beautiful? From reader Yeah, Yeah comes a link to a Wired article which assures us we should "Learn the Language of Data." It's not a pretty language, but…

Culture

Global Warming Set To Song: Withering in the Heat

Little Aitan Grossman, just age 13, and cute as hell, has taken Honorable Mention in the 2010 Action For Nature International Young Eco-Hero Awards! A hero---an eco hero---and only 13!…

Fun Statistics

A Time To Celebrate!

I am, once more, reliving my Air Force days. I am strapped into a seat designed for a midget, jetting across the Wild Blue towards the shores of Lake Michigan,…

Culture

Power Balance Bracelets And Celebrity

Power to the people! In the form of a small silicone bracelet into which is embedded a Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-esque hologram (an entire deck being outside the range of present technology). Athletes…

Fun

Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, And Evil Alien Conquerors

NASA, when it can spare time from its outreaching to the Muslims of the world, manages to fit in a little science. Like from its nearly spanking new Solar Dynamics…

Statistics

“Climate Calamity” Rejected In Favor Of “Climate Disruption”

President Obama's White House has been hard at work trying to discover another term for global warming. The old phrase was deemed staid and passé, so much so that its…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

Causality: Guest Post by DAV

Today's guest post, on a subject dear to us all, is by long-time reader (and now contributor) DAV. While fencing in many of the Web's blogs it's not uncommon to…

Fun

CO₂ Is Very Very Too Much

"What is global warming?" The state of global warming politics has finally reached kitsch. Take a look at the video below, a snippet from the game show Super Center ABC…

Chaeremon on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
when you see the irreparable cracks in some building, you can only save what is obviously usable. P.S. same Uniparty-behavior…
JerryR on Class 3: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Belief & FaithApril 23, 2024
No comments? Well Briggs has presented gobbledygook so I can understand. I have never seen a serious discussion of JTB…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 23, 2024
Briggs, you got several of your more annoying posters to leave in a huff with this one. Well done, thanks.…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
If people weren't so damned hungry for sin this wouldn't happen. You can't cheat an honest man. But the people…
Gwyneth on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
"The devil is just one man with a plan, but evil, true evil, is a collaboration of men." Agent Mulder…