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Are Student Athletes Worse Than Other Students? Deadspin Contest

Ambrose Bierce, as usual, summarized it best for us in the Devil's Dictionary: ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern…

Culture

Back To School Electronically

Thanks to computers---those modern saviors of mankind!---students returning to campus this fall needn't return at all. Yes, sir: they will be able to "attend" class by staying home, ready to…

Culture Statistics

What Makes Music Bad? A New Scale: Part I, the Definition

It might have been coming out of the air space between her ear buds and flesh, or it might have been seeping through the holes in the woman's head. Either…

Culture Fun

Pet Peeves

Car ads on the radio I listen to a lot of baseball, which means I'm forced to endure a lot of ads. The worst are for cars, where each has…

Philosophy

Sophomoronology, John C. Wright’s Pathology of Intellectuals

The article by John Wright was suggested by reader Nate Winchester. The tenured intellectual is the only known creature that denies its own existence. They are, therefore, dangerous animals. Rather,…

Culture Fun

World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing

USA 1, Small Island Nation 1 Fabio Capello, pictured left, shows us the tracks his tears took after Robert Green revealed his American sympathies by suspiciously letting a shot through---a…

Statistics

Last Class

It was the Nines last night. Pizza, beer, and wine, followed by sketchy music. A definite conceit of statistics is its habit of declaring with something-approaching-certainty that this or that…

Culture Fun

More Bad Music; Class Wrap-Up; Go USA

Way Behind Back Thanks to everybody who stuck through the lectures, such as they were, for the last two weeks. I wrote these "lessons" over about a twenty-minute period each…

Pdx R13 on Butter Bad, Seed Oils Good, Says New StudyMarch 11, 2025
What about those of us who scour the grocery ad's to find butter at half price or lower so we…
Uncle Mike on Butter Bad, Seed Oils Good, Says New StudyMarch 11, 2025
Ouch. I demand a government grant for reading this. I think $2 billion will suffice. Who do I bribe?
brad.tittle on Butter Bad, Seed Oils Good, Says New StudyMarch 11, 2025
The more we go through this, the more I am standing by my simplification ... "IF IT SAYS 'STUDY' in…
Stan Young on Butter Bad, Seed Oils Good, Says New StudyMarch 11, 2025
Several points: First, there are a lot of these Food Frequency Questionnaire, FFQ, studies. The first FFQ studies had 61…
McChuck on Butter Bad, Seed Oils Good, Says New StudyMarch 11, 2025
Olive oil is not seed oil. Beans are seeds. Corn kernels are seeds. Rape seeds (rebranded as "canola" for obvious…