There are a number of “constants” used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning they do […]
Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument
Reaction: Anthony Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’ Reviewed
I want everybody to read Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes. Buy it if you can; at least borrow it. Libraries still exist in many places, and some of them still have […]
Don’t Be Uncertain: Buy Uncertainty!
The Restoration has begun! Participate by buying Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics. Money spent wisely I do not say revolution, but Restoration. It is past time to return our […]
New ‘Children’s’ Book Has Prince Charming Finding True Love With Farm Boy
Stream: New ‘Children’s’ Book Has Prince Charming Finding True Love With Farm Boy Here is a short argument to keep in mind as you read about a new “children’s” book that promotes […]
A Theory of Nothing Leads to Something
A Theory of Nothing by Thomas Barlow was the most realistic science fiction book I have ever read. The science in the book was fanciful, and even silly, but how the science […]
Mathematical Association of America Reviews Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics
William J. Satzer at the Mathematical Association of America reviewed Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics. Here it is (ellipsis below original). This is a book about probability and probabilistic […]
The Full Briggs?
Our friend Joseph Moore at Yard Sale of the Mind, a site surely on everybody’s list already, whose photograph appears atop this post, wrote It doesn’t get much more civilized than that! […]
Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation
Don Aitkin, author of Moving On: A Tale of the Millennium, also available here, and feted here, and reviewed here, has reviewed my Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and Statistics. Here […]
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