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Global Warming Political Enemies List
I wrote what follows for an editor who, lucky fellow that he is, has moved on to better things. So, in order not to waste these precious pearls (and to…
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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,…
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Does Second To Fourth Digit Ratio Predict You-Know-What Length?
From the storied Halls of Science comes an important new study, here abstracted from the Asian Journal of Andrology1. I apologize for the length of this excerpt, but it is…
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Interest In Penile Length Among Academics Growing
Who said Finns don't have a sense of humor? One of Finland's very own has produced the second biggest joke of the year (the first obviously being our president and…
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How To Find True Love: The Marriage Problem
MEB + ARK, a.k.a. the Haystack Hunters, wrote the following: As fans of your work in real life probability and breaking the law of averages, we were hoping you could…
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Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?
That title is lifted from Popular Science's brief article. The idea is that scientists---as philosopher Christopher Essex reminded me, just like doctors and accountants and businessmen and engineers and everybody…
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Effectively destroy planet Earth as we know it
That quote is from the economist Martin Weitzman from Harvard. I said Harvard. So you know he knows what he's talking about. Reader Raven suggested we glance at Paul Krugman's…
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Which country did best in the Olympics?
(This analysis was suggested by reader Joy C., who provided a link to the medal tables.) China, even disregarding its cheating, grabbed the most gold medals (51 to the USA's…
