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Richelieu And Bacon On Education
From France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu by Victor-L. Tapié translated by D. McN. Lockie, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1975, p. 172: He regarded a multiplication in…
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Baseball To Toss Tradition, Allow Replays
There is a lawyer in each of us struggling to claw its way out and sue. Yet most of us---because we learnt to heed our mothers and are kind to…
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Was The UEFA Champions League Draw Rigged?—Bayesian Analysis by Henk Tijms
Henk Tijms, emeritus professor at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, is author of Understanding Probability (excerpt; Amazon at this writing has it for only $31.29, a steal for textbooks). Football…
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Engaging, Witty, Funny, Brilliant, And Most Humble Speaker Seeks Gigs
Are you in the need of a speaker for your event? Do you desire a trainer who can deliver more than what you can look up on your own on…
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That IQ And Atheism Study
A lovely, but not at all unexpected conceit, held firmly by a certain sort of atheist, is that he has based his non-belief on his superior intelligence. He quotes, "A…
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“Probably Fine” Isn’t A Number
Today's headline is a true proposition. "Probably fine" isn't a number, yet it is a perfectly reasonable way to communicate risk. Indeed most risk is, and should be, given in…
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Plastic Surgery Might Make You Uglier
In that stating-the-obvious tone common to science writing, Joshua Zimm and his co-authors open their "Objective Assessment of Perceived Age Reversal and Improvement in Attractiveness After Aging Face Surgery" in…
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Briggs Makes Der Spiegel: Violence “Linked”, Etc.
That embarrassing Science paper which "proves" "violence" will increase because of climate change is exciting interest globally. It certainly provided us a certain amount of harmless fun. But this time…