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 […]
Causality: Guest Post by DAV
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 […]
University Rankings: Wall Street Journal, ACTA, QS
I, working with Cambria Consulting (see below), was involved heavily creating the WSJ’s Top 25 College rankings which are in today’s papers. All questions on the methods, I defer to them. College, […]
Global Competitiveness Report: World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum has released their 2010-2011 rankings of Global Competitiveness, a subject matter so important that it rates Capital Letters to introduce. For each country, the economists from the WEF […]
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