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Surely, you wouldn’t go and see An American Carol?
Yes, I would. And don't call me Shirley. David Zucker, the guy who brought us Airplane! and Naked Gun, will be back on October 3rd with An American Carol. Stephen…
Posted inPhilosophy
The B.S. octopus
Jonathan Bate, of Standpoint, recently wrote an essay "The wrong idea of a university": It used to work like this. Dr Bloggs, the brilliant scholar who had solved the problem…
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Don’t be so sure
A number of mixed items today, mostly with the theme that Experts are often too sure of themselves. The organization GRASP, among many others, until yesterday warned of the "imminent…
Posted inStatistics
Wrong -> Immoral -> Illegal?
Says Paul Krugman, a writer for a local New York paper, The only way we’re going to get action, I’d suggest, is if those who stand in the way of…
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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…
Posted inStatistics
Dollar bill presidents
You'll have heard the speech by now. Barack Obama yesterday addressed a large crowd and said that McCain was Going to try and make you scared of me. [polite applause]…
Does watching TV cause autism?
I have no idea, but two gentlemen from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell and one from the Economics department at Purdue seem to think so. They have written…
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Help! WordPress won’t show other pages
UPDATE: All seems well again. Thanks to everybody for their help! I have been having a hell of a time trying to upgrade. Everything now seems OK, except that I…