December 2016 – Page 4 – William M. Briggs

Stream: A New Kind Of Abortion

A New Kind of Abortion...For Men: [Thanks to reader David Reeve, we can introduce the so-called financial abortion.] According to Catherine Deveny, the financial abortion "(also known as a paper…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Aristotle vs Averroes On The Intellect & Soul

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're still…

Book review Fun Statistics

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…

Statistics

Stream: Pope Francis and President-Elect Trump Disagree on Global Warming Threat

Pope Francis and President-Elect Trump Disagree on Global Warming Threat: ... Yet the Holy Father will try and use his bully pulpit to influence the incoming administration. With the notable…

Culture

Tips From Esolen’s Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture

The embattled and shockingly non-respected Anthony Esolen (the filled-diaper crowd are flinging contents of same at him) has a new book arriving early next year: Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding…

Forbes on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
The "prediction" betting market that blew it big time was Brexit. The bookies (well, some) even paid out winnings in…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
That video of people robotically hitting buttons on a machine like lab maze rats chasing dopamine cheese is hilarious. Those…
Briggs on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
gareth, If n = whatever, and k = 0,1,2,..., n. Then n - k = 0 at the end. And…
gareth on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
16:43: "0!=1" - eh? n!=n*n-1... if n=0 then n!=0 Please explain or point to links that do :-) Comment: agree…
NLR on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
The thing that gets me about these rationalists is that they seem to think it's still 1998. All the Internet…