Bit busy today, folks. Here’s some interesting links. Typo warning level 5. Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator! That’s the creator’s name for it: I find it exhilarating and nicely done. His […]
How To Guarantee Enthusiastic College Students
I Didn’t Do My Homework Apathy is contagious. I discovered this after only two of the forty-five students registered for the statistics class I teach bothered to do their homework over the […]
Reading Lyrics by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
First, thanks, Google. Aren’t you all sweethearts. 10100 != F1 + F4 + F6 + F9. Reading Lyrics: More than a thousand of the finest lyrics from 1900 to 1975. A Celebration […]
The Mathematics of Boneless Pork Rectums
Ever wonder what’s in those delicious dumplings? What gives them that special tang? The flavor that cannot quite be named? Wonder no further! For the secret has been revealed. And the secret […]
The Sports Illustrated curse and regression to the mean
Due to overwhelming demand, today’s column is a classic reprint. This originally appeared on 18 January 2008. The headlines of today’s New York Daily News is CURSES! It seems the New York […]
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 encounter the […]
Can Catching A Cold Make You Fat?
Jeff Schwimmer and his University of California-San Diego colleagues seem to think so. In a press-release that is being cut-and-pasted across across the internet, Schwimmer tells of a study he conducted which […]
“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 repetition was […]
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