Posted inPhilosophy
Climategate Peer Review: Science red in tooth and claw
See also see this story on proxies I am a scientist and I have lived around fellow scientists for many years and I know their feeding habits well. I therefore…
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The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit Hacking
Be sure to also see this story! And this story a follow-up See also see this story on proxies I often write emails to pals of mine that are in…
Posted inCulture
Mammogram wrap-up
We're all tired of this topic, and unless I hear something especially goofy from the peanut gallery, this will be my last word on this subject (for the time being,…
Posted inCulture
More on mammograms
Emotions, as they say, run high, especially about "health." There is a great deal of superfluous, extraneous, and irrelevant discussion taking place with regard to the new mammogram guidelines. Yesterday,…
Posted inStatistics
No Mammogram Screening For Healthy Women Until 50: It’s about time
Update: see also this story. The U.S. Preventive Services Task force (whatever that is), in the Annals of Internal Medicine, yesterday advised women not to begin mammogram screenings for breast…
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Politics
Bow wow Republicans make themselves look like asses when they publicly sniff and tiff over Obama's bow of greeting to Japan's Emperor and Mrs Emperor. Is there anything so trivial…
Posted inCulture
Can you do these math problems? If not, you can still go to college
Here are four problems, published by the New York Daily News, that high school graduates attempted as they entered the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The percents are…
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Podcast Lecture #5: Four Probability Rules
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0005.mp3[/podcast] Today's Lecture: Difficulties I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, which included a new version of Audacity 1.3.9, a persnickety package that keeps locking up. Word on the 'net is…