News. News is what is killing papers. Not "news" as in something you want and need to read, but "news" as in something reporters once liked and wanted to write…

Clever readers will have noticed the modifier yet. Because it seems inevitable that someday we will be forced to own one. Plenty of reviews of the two main readers exist:…

Wired article on copulas Reader Scott Bury forwarded this article from Wired on the probability function that many used to quantify the risk of certain financial instruments. You can think…

Those of us who love radio love the human voice. Few, if any, voices were as beautiful as Paul Harvey's. I can remember listening to him when I was a…

Sigh. I wonder why these Enlightened souls bother with school. They have already told themselves that they know everything there is worth knowing. The only other thing worth noting---the video…