From the Wall Street Journal comes the headline: “Retailers Expect Gloomy Holiday.” Problem is, I have read the entire article—these kinds of stories seem to appear earlier and earlier every year—but I […]
An early start to the “holiday” season
Anybody see this one?
The book is The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Steve Ziliak. From the description at Amazon: The Cult […]
Health care crisis!?
Take a look at his picture: This is from an article by “The Numbers Guy” Carl Bialik at the Wall Street Journal. The story is about how life expectancy calculators are not […]
Uncle Ted’s Manifesto: Ted, White, & Blue: a review
Read Ted, White, & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto. You will not agree with everything, some or lot of it might even infuriate you, but you not regret the time spent. If you […]
Where did I go wrong
Here.
Artificial photosynthesis
I don’t normally get excited about “Advances in Science” papers, but everything now and then it’s fun to let your imagination play. Thus, I recommend this article about an MIT chemist named […]
Random topics
I use the word “random” in the sense that you did not know what topics I would select today. And I use the word know in its logical sense. On Polling From […]
Science is decided by committee
Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of the matter […]
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