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The Navy’s Phantom Pooper
With all the yock and chatter that's been floating around about the military lately, I thought it would be fun to tell an uplifting story. My dad was an electrician's…
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Conditional probability, Islam, and terrorism screening
Suppose you heard on the radio a breaking news story: "Shots reported at Fort Hood Army base. Several are dead, many more are wounded. Eyewitnesses claim this is an act…
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Vacuous Verisimilitude; Or, V has arrived
How did this show get past the ABC censors? How did the folks in Hollywood---good Progressives, all---let this program sneak onto the air? Were movie studio heads so distracted by…
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Secret House health care provision
Rumor has it that Nancy Pelosi slipped in an addendum to the massive House health bill that calls for government-paid access to cosmetic surgery for female congress members with low…
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Evolutionary medicine: my death rate delta v finally goes negative
Apologies for the slowness in answering comments and lack of podcasts this week, but I was dying and my voice was shot. Gross talk alert: read no further if the…
The declining popularity of the World Series
Media firm Magna research today published its estimates of the audiences for the World Series from 1991. They broke the data down by audience per game in each series (of…
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Stinky Tofu
It's time for a science experiment! In a large plastic bag, collect the following: the solid bits from the kitty litter, or the equivalent output from Fido, a week's worth…
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Oops — Inadvertent post: Odd NIH Grant
There was supposed to be something here about oddly named NIH grants. But this morning I hit "Publish" inadvertently and failed to recognize it until now. To make up for…
