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Director Explodes Children In Name of Environment; College Degrees Don’t Always Pay

The delta-V at which I am approaching death has increased because I was crammed into an aluminum tube with two hundred sneezing strangers who unburdened their diseases upon me, and…

Culture

Hollywood: Stop Making Movies And Lower Your Carbon Footprint

Just last week British movie director Richard Curtis thought it would be jolly to simulate the brutal killing of children who did not fret sufficiently over global warming. In his…

Philosophy Statistics

I’m Happy To Help, Judith Curry: Overconfidence In IPCC’s Detection And Attribution

Thanks to reader Roger Cohen for brining this to my attention. Atmospheric scientist Judith Curry recently ran a series of blog posts entitled, "Overconfidence in IPCCâ€™s detection and attribution." In…

Fun

Happy Anniversary: Clip Show

It's been one year to the day when I decided to offer a daily column. Below are the ones that did not turn out too badly. Funny Fun Wolf Blitzer…

Statistics

Cornell’s Cancun Climate Conference Crew

"A delegation of Cornell researchers will join the fight against climate change Monday in the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico." So begins an article in the…

Philosophy Statistics

What Is A “Statistically Significant Trend”?

Longtime reader Nate Winchester found a discussion---among the many, many---of global warming data revolving around statistics, from which we take the following snippet: You just do the statistics on the…

Culture Statistics

Scientific American Proposes Socialism As Means To Eliminate Murder

The once great magazine Scientific American has actually had three lives. Around the turn of the last century and for many years after, there was a magazine called Scientific American,…

Statistics

Iowahawk Does Statistics—-Properly!

Thanks to the many readers who sent in this tip. The Iowahawk, a.k.a. David Burge, the beloved assassin of pomposity and pretension has taken the often hysterical Paul "Global Warming…

Hun on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
"My argument is that I do not want to be forced to pick a side. I want nothing to do…
hudbwu on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
> Iran threatens the world with their belief that they can hasten Al-Qiyama with nuclear weapons; you have to ask…
Tars Tarkus on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
Sorry I have to tell you this Mr Briggs, but I absolutely hate the new website. It's even slower than…
Milton Hathaway on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
I appreciate your honesty, Professor Briggs, but this is just a less subtle expose' of what was plainly evident already…
hudbwu on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 16, 2024
> The surrounding Arb nations told the Arabs to leave because their armies were coming in to kill all the…