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Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The Science
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Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The Science

Posted by By Briggs August 6, 2025
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Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating Meat

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Finitism, Physics, Cellular Automata: The Universe as Logic

In no way is this article meant to be complete. It is more in the way of musings---a crude introduction---so that we can see where to go. Is the universe…
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Postmodernism and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Since I am, by nature, a compassionate individual, I had been thinking of how we might Sokal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). It is for their…
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Feigned Surprises of the Week: Journolist and Our New Tax

Said the main-stream journalist on Journolist, "If they of the right wing don't behave and treat our Golden Boy properly, we'll call them racists. It matters not whom we pick…
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A Bust—I mean must—Read; Or, An Evolution in Bra Sizes

"Excuse me, miss. Would you care to participate in science?" Sometimes being a statistician is enviable. In a flash of scientific brilliance, Australian statisticians have just completed a massive study…
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M. Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson, and John Wayne

Part II of the Two-Envelope problem was not too friendly, so here's something that is. Via HotAir, I came across the site Marginal Revolution, in which was featured a graph…
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The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part II

Read Part I first. We are in the peek first game here. The distribution of N When X is odd, and all X are discrete, we know we should always…
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The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part I

Another probability "paradox", the two-envelope problem1, goes like this: Before you are two envelopes, A and B. One of them contains $X and the other $2X (which is equivalent to…
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Four Chords Is All You Need: The Limited Nature of Pop Music

Coming tomorrow: the infamous two-envelope problem, solved! More mathematical constructivism. But today, as it's Sunday, something light and airy...and non taxing. A "comedy rock" group which bills itself as the…
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  1. Al on Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The ScienceAugust 6, 2025

    I don’t know how they were able to identify the sex of each sample. We all know that it’s impossible…

  2. Michael Dowd on Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The ScienceAugust 6, 2025

    Proving once again the adage of there are gradations of lies, damn lies and statistics. Makes one wonder why statistics…

  3. C-Marie on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025

    I pray that they use the gifts God gave to them, for His honor and glory. God bless, C-Marie

  4. Uncle Mike on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025

    So there is some worth to blood-sucking parasites. Who knew? The only moral thing to do is starve academics. No…

  5. Cary Cotterman on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025

    "Promoting tickborne AGS (A) prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, (B) doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, and (C)…

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