William M. Briggs

UNCERTAINTY REQUIREMENTS If you say a calamity will befall me, and ask me to pay to protect against it, the burden is on you to (a) prove the calamity is…

Look for new plots in the update below. A RARE SIGHTING I will join this robust list of malcontents, lunatics, deniers, outcasts and iconoclasts in my speech, "Fools! I will…

A new walks-into-a-bar joke begins (thanks to reader Kip Hansen for the tip): A mathematician, a philosopher and a gambler walk into a bar. As the barman pulls each of…

We haven't finished with the coroandoom panic, not yet. The leeches ("reporters") are still running around screaming about "raging surges", "surging rages", "variants", "breaking points", and so on and so…