Posted inPhilosophy
Science As Salvation?
Say there, sisters and brothers. Ever have a "peak" experience? If you know what I mean. While engaged with Science, that is. You did? Then you might of lost track…
Posted inCulture
DIE From The Sky! Or, New Meaning To The Wild Blue Yonder
The once United States Air Force, my old employer, has decided to DIE. DIE hard. Harder than any military has ever DIEd before. Nuclear-level DIE. For not only will they…
Posted inStatistics
The World’s Best 100% Guaranteed Unpredictable Perfect Random Number Generator
"Random" numbers are in hot demand. They're needed, for instance, in cryptography, to keep things like your bank account secure, and in science, where they're used in simulating complex systems.…
Posted inStatistics
Over-Certainties In Global Estimates of Vaccine Efficacy
How can you tell if a vaccine for a bug is effective? It's not so easy; indeed, it can be excruciatingly difficult. At the individual person level you'd need to…
Posted inCulture
The Biological Reason Why America Meddles In So Many Conflicts Around The World
Ever see My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Charming story about a homely aging waitress with a large, fairly well off Greek family, who finds a nice, though dull, young man,…
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Australian Feminists & Katharine Hayhoe Weep Over White Men Who Do Not Love “Climate Change”
Busy day at the Briggs compound, and I only have time to tell you, with regret, that the feminists are at it again. Turns out there is a journal, and…
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The Insularity Of Experts: Why You Don’t Matter
The BMJ, once a preeminent journal of medicine, which is to say, doctors talking to other doctors about which cure works for which disease, and which doesn't, has taken up…
Posted inStatistics
How Many Times Must You Shoot To Be 95% Sure Of Hitting Your Target At Least Once?
Why do cops, and home and shop owners, empty their guns when shooting at bad guys? Another way to ask this is our title: How Many Times Must You Shoot…