My book is coming! It's almost there, so let me tell you how modern math publishing works these days. The author of course writes the work, and we all do…
From the Wall Street Journal comes the headline: "Retailers Expect Gloomy Holiday." Problem is, I have read the entire article---these kinds of stories seem to appear earlier and earlier every…
Take a look at his picture: This is from an article by "The Numbers Guy" Carl Bialik at the Wall Street Journal. The story is about how life expectancy calculators…
If you follow radio, you will know that Don Imus was fired last year for his hip hop-inspired "nappy-headed hos" comment. For this quip, he was cast outside the gate…
The way peer review works is broken, according to a new finding by John Ioannidis and colleagues in their article "Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science". The authors liken…
(Pretend, if you have, that you haven't read my first weak attempt. I'm still working on this, but this gives you the rough idea, and I didn't want to leave…