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(Ex-Army Captain) Kyle Smith gets his statistics right

Mull this one carefully. Say a mammogram is 90 percent accurate at spotting patients with breast cancer, and 93 percent accurate at spotting those without breast cancer. Breast cancer afflicts…

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Next time you drive by Janovic Plaza…

It's watered down, but the music is good, too. Thanks, Doc Searls!

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Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story

Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years,…

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Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!

I remember when I was a kid living on the outskirts of Detroit, in Taylor in the early 1970s, in early December, aching for snow so badly that it hurt.…

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Almost Top 10 Christmas Songs: guest column

Everybody will recognize long-time contributer Mike D. of the Western Institute for Study of the Environment (a great site people should browse over to). He generously contributed the following list…

Culture

“I was all, like—awugh.”

I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…

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Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!

For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…

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Wrestlers sponsor “earth hour”

I got an email---a press release---from a guy named Dan Forman from the WWF asking me to get the word out about "earth hour." Up till now, I had no…

Paul Murphy on Class 38: Truly Random & Information ComplexityFebruary 10, 2025
Nonsense. And yes, I can tell you why pi is transcendental - remember analysis 101? closed if the boundary is…
Uncle Mike on Class 38: Truly Random & Information ComplexityFebruary 10, 2025
My favorite transcendental is phi, the Golden Ratio (aka the Divine Proportion). One way to derive phi is using the…
NLR on Class 38: Truly Random & Information ComplexityFebruary 10, 2025
"One thing has to be admitted outright: that no field invents more tantalizing (and marketable) terms than computer science ...…
Johnno on The Path To VictoryFebruary 9, 2025
Looks like DOGE is heading to the Pentagon next. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-analyze-pentagon-spending-after-7th-failed-audit Hopefully they'll live to make it to the Federal Reserve…
Barry on On Various New Values Of P(Doom)February 7, 2025
Surely the percentage likelihood of doom must be qualified by a time period. 1959 had a likelihood of doom of…