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What Happened to the News?—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
My father was a wire editor of our local paper. Even though the paper was "local" and covered a few counties, there was much more news than who married, who…
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Precaution: Part III—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
Read Part II. Precaution is essential, so the tale goes, to create policies and laws that focus on and tackle uncertainty that might be the foreboding of particular risks. The…
Posted inFun Philosophy
Is There Free Will? A Conversation With Dr. Sam Hurtus
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MbL6wbg1Y&w=560&h=315] I got the idea for this from regular reader Jim Fedako, who points us to a cute video showing the screwiness of p-values. Turns out the video was…
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Anthropogenic Forcing Signals Not Significant? New Polynomial Cointegration Test Paper
I have been asked by a number of people to comment on a new paper that purportedly shows that "statistical tests for global warming fails to find statistically significantly anthropogenic…
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Review and Comments on Anna Karenina—Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
The movie itself is quite enjoyable. The opening is a little jarring, as the movie mixes "stage" settings with "movie" settings. The characters will march across the stage or climb…
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Precaution: Part II—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
For all the flurry surrounding precaution---being portrayed as a decisional/procedural instrument to protect human and environmental health from the (potential) dangers of human activities---the history shows that we are dealing…
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The HHS Mandate & Hobby Lobby: Updated
I'm a little late with this; pressures of work. Nevertheless, it's Hobby Lobby appreciation day. Open letter from CEO. One day the department of Health and Human Services sat in…
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Who Is A Mother When Same-Sex “Marriage” Arrives?
A headline in the 2 January 2013 The Telegraph ran: First baby born in France in 2013 has two mothers The story informs us the birth mother is named Maude,…