William M. Briggs

A lot of conversations about the differences between the races go like this one about sex. "Briggs, somebody told me you said men are taller than women." I said it.…

Might I beg you, if you find it useful, to show this article to those who are growing concerned or agitated about this story? Don't miss the ending. We hear…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…

There is a great and terrible danger in being a strict immovable literalist and in insisting every word in the Bible as written is the inerrant absolute word of God.…

Cast your mind back, if you are still able, to 2014. The very beginning of The Great Awokening. We ran to some acclaim a Worldwide Contest (well, the internet goes…

Briggs note: There are many stories of unbeatable foes -- like the man with the abbreviated moustache, Napoleon, etc. -- who were successful because they relied largely on their own…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…

Peter Wood at the National Association of Scholars asked me to review Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty by Adam Kucharski. So I did. (His will is stronger than…