Our beneficent government gave $700,000 dollars to a theatre troup to create the musical The Great Immensity. Maybe you didn’t catch that. Our most giving righteous wise government, through its National Science […]
Reader Survey
Something fun for everybody: the WMBriggs.com reader survey! Come and tell us about yourself and learn what you only suspected about everybody else. It should only take 20 seconds or so. This […]
Reader Poll: Mayan Apocalypse, For or Against?
In just over a week, on 21 December, it will be the glorious End of Times or it will be just over a week from today. Which is to be preferred? Now […]
Gloom, Despair, Email Spoofing, And Kahan’s Science Literacy Paper
Somebody spoofed my Yahoo email address which I use for ordering, registrations and the like. Sent hundreds of emails to my contact list yesterday. Now I ordinarily run Linux, which you will […]
How To Maximize The Chance Of Winning The Office Super Bowl Pool
Forget climatology. It’s time for something really controversial. How to fill in those grid squares on the Super Bowl office pool. An example of one is shown below. The full details are […]
Obama Wants Statisticians!
“Politics as done by Martians.” That’s Peggy Noonan’s phrase, to describe President Obama’s call for and use of statisticians and data miners in his re-election campaign. The hiring of such as I […]
Pink horror
Why do people occasionally enjoy having the bejesus scared out of themselves by watching horror movies? Maybe it’s a way to relieve stress or to recall vague, primal memories of being hunted. […]
Newsweek imagines a President Al Gore
Newsweek asks What if Al Gore had won the 2000 election? It provides an alternative oral history with quotes from several journalists as they imagine the Earthly paradise that would have obtained […]
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