Never too old to learn
I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…
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Derek Jeter’s Tailor in trouble with the law
The story is confusing, but Derek Jeter's tailor is having legal difficulties. Either Ramchandani, who is the tailor, or one of his ex-pupils is having immigration troubles. Judging by the…
On tolerance
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had…
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Shocking Shockley
This week's Science (29 May edition) has an unintentionally hilarious short piece. Seems Auburn, California wanted to name a park after local-boy-done-good William Shockley, the guy who invented the transistor.…
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Words I hate: Part I
What follows is only the beginning of a collection of words and phrases that I loathe. When I hear them or see them in print, I am tempted to apoplexy.…
Hey, Hollywood, I’ll do it for free
The Problem This relevant scene appears in an uncountable number of movies. What happens when you plunge head first through a glass window? Anybody? That's right. You die. It's you…
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California
Somebody told me that the place we call "California" was actually real and, as we have supposed upon surveying the news that emanates from there, not fictional. So I decided…