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Predictions of E-Books And Reading Verified?

Just something quick today; I mean written quickly. Typo alert! Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published "Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books", in which are various observations that appear…

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How To Guarantee Enthusiastic College Students

I Didn't Do My Homework Apathy is contagious. I discovered this after only two of the forty-five students registered for the statistics class I teach bothered to do their homework…

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Reading Lyrics by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball

First, thanks, Google. Aren't you all sweethearts. 10100 != F1 + F4 + F6 + F9. Reading Lyrics: More than a thousand of the finest lyrics from 1900 to 1975.…

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USDA Bans Delicacy? Pork Blood Cake Candles Snuffed Out

Continuing our popular theme of pig innards, we focus today on blood, and prove that there is a little vampire in all of us. Yet our bureaucrats seek to disguise…

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Robert Messenger’s Weekly Standard “Theirs But To Do Or Die”

Drop everything and head over to the Weekly Standard and read Robert Messenger's "Theirs But To Do Or Die." The subtitle of his piece is "Dien Bien Phu and the…

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Horrible College Fashion: Both Professors And Students

I told the kid about to take exam that if he could write an essay successfully justifying why he chose to wear his unusual hat and kept it on indoors,…

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Too Many Kids Go To College: A Second Conversation With Myself

Read the first conversation here. William How goes the teaching? Matt Do you really want to know? You might not like the answer. William You're going to start this conversation…

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Lying For A Living: Tiny Airline Seats

Cowboys on airplanes No doubt channeling Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, the Italian design firm Aviointeriors Group has created a new airline seat dubbed the "saddle." Ride them skies! What…

hudbwu on What Are The Chances 6 AfD Candidates Die Before An Election?September 10, 2025
Yeah, if you need this much math to SEE the signal in the first place, then the state didn't whack…
Briggs on Class 64: No Confidence (Interval) In ParametersSeptember 9, 2025
gareth, Excellent point. See this week's class.
gareth on Class 64: No Confidence (Interval) In ParametersSeptember 9, 2025
Dear Briggs - you keep quoting "Probability of Data Not Seen GIVEN Hypothesis is False". You know of which you…
Lucy Tucker on The False Expectation Of PermanenceSeptember 9, 2025
Je ne sais pas.
Brian (bulaoren) on The False Expectation Of PermanenceSeptember 9, 2025
Ou sont les neiges d'antan?