Ever wonder what’s in those delicious dumplings? What gives them that special tang? The flavor that cannot quite be named? Wonder no further! For the secret has been revealed. And the secret […]
The Sports Illustrated curse and regression to the mean
Due to overwhelming demand, today’s column is a classic reprint. This originally appeared on 18 January 2008. The headlines of today’s New York Daily News is CURSES! It seems the New York […]
Causality: Guest Post by DAV
Today’s guest post, on a subject dear to us all, is by long-time reader (and now contributor) DAV. While fencing in many of the Web’s blogs it’s not uncommon to encounter the […]
Can Catching A Cold Make You Fat?
Jeff Schwimmer and his University of California-San Diego colleagues seem to think so. In a press-release that is being cut-and-pasted across across the internet, Schwimmer tells of a study he conducted which […]
“Climate Calamity” Rejected In Favor Of “Climate Disruption”
President Obama’s White House has been hard at work trying to discover another term for global warming. The old phrase was deemed staid and passé, so much so that its repetition was […]
Spot The Logical Fallacy!
See the first installment of our favorite game. As is frequent in the evolution of games shows, the set of rules has been simplified. It’s time to play everybody’s favorite game: Spot […]
Too Many Kids Go To College: A Second Conversation With Myself
Read the first conversation here. William How goes the teaching? Matt Do you really want to know? You might not like the answer. William You’re going to start this conversation with bombast? […]
Lying For A Living: Tiny Airline Seats
Cowboys on airplanes No doubt channeling Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, the Italian design firm Aviointeriors Group has created a new airline seat dubbed the “saddle.” Ride them skies! What makes this […]
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