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Class 100: Watch The Skies! But Only During Nuclear Tests?
November 5, 2026
After The Elections, The Book
November 4, 2026
The Solution To Evolution
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Class 99: Entropy Part I
October 29, 2026
Book Update: Launch Date
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Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism Manifesto
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Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality
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I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)
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Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations
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Class 97: The Goal Of Models
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Book Update
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Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell
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Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?
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Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us
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Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?
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Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions
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Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants
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Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges
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Whoring For Climate Change
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Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review
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Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable
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Class 100: Watch The Skies! But Only During Nuclear Tests?

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After The Elections, The Book

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Not Evil, Just Wrong reviewed: Guest Post by Bernie

Today's guest post is by our very own Bernie, longtime reader and contributer. Too confused and too nuanced to be effective Phelim McAleer's and Ann McElhinney's Not Evil, Just Wrong…
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Full Disclosure, Anita Dunn, and Fox News: A Fairness Proposal for Journalists

In the United States, we have several major news outlets. On television: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox. There are also several national-ish newspapers (and a diminishing number…
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Podcast Lecture #2: Understanding Statistics and Probability

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0002.mp3[/podcast] On today's lecture: Quick review All knowledge is conditional on evidence, which eventually leads back to our intuitions. The steps in an argument that make it valid are also…
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Podcast Radio Show – Episode #4: Belief in Climate Models

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_14oct2009_0004.mp3[/podcast] On today's episode: Science and skeptical bloggers A small article in last week's Science magazine frets that skeptical bloggers are teasing climate scientists over their failed predictions. Bloggers are…
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F train Blues, Michael Palin is proud, and some misuses of statistics

Just back from my trip. I'll go through the comments from last week's posts later today and catch up. Meanwhile, here are a few interesting stories. That F'ing train! You've…
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Podcast Lecture #1: Understanding Statistics and Probability

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0001.mp3[/podcast] First lecture: I'm away to a conference this week, and so thought it would be fun to start a lecture series Understanding Statistics and Probability (this is posting automatically---I'll…
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Podcast Radio Show – Episode #3: Call the Health Police!

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_07oct2009_0003.mp3[/podcast] On today's episode: What is health? Herr Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore: "a degree of adaptation to the organism's environment so nearly complete that there is no irritation." Health…
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The Case of the Rape-rape Patrol: a 17th precinct mini-mystery

We last met Officer Hannigan and Sergeant Fitzgerald in The Case of the Missing Global Warming and The Age of Stupid "Sarge, we got a call." Officer Hannigan motioned to…
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