William M. Briggs

I am on the road and am way behind on posts---I have a 3,500 word article on deriving Oughts from Is's in the works---so in the spirit of summer, where…

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

A new book from the curiosity that is academia has emerged. It is The Epistemic Violence of Mathematics by Carla-Julie Kather, who bills herself as a "Sexual Violence Prevention, Feminist…

Headline: "Perfect randomness realized for the first time". Perfection! "It may seem strange, but it is almost impossible to create a perfect coin or a perfect die," says [paper author]…

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

Every now and then I suspect there is a game played by bored elites to see which of them can get away with the most asinine "climate change" claim. There…

This IQ test question was making the rounds the other day. See if you can answer is before peeking. Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek The…

You will have noticed these last few weeks a switch to bi-weekly posts, longer and (I hope) more informative than the old way of having three to four short, standard…