June 3, 2025 – William M. Briggs

Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best

I forgot to remind you of this week's What Are The Chances? video. A truck carrying 216,000 dice spilled onto the highway, and they said the total was exactly 756,000.…

Franco on How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain PowerJune 22, 2026
Probably my all time favorite has to be some variation of "War afflicts women and children most"
Johnno on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 21, 2026
That's a lot of words just to say Math is intrinsically patriarchal because statistics show boys are better than girls…
Johnno on Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!June 21, 2026
They could host the matches in indoor arenas... but that would mean turning on the air conditioning, which means electricity,…
hudbwu on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 20, 2026
We they're certainly re-inventing. Promises kept, I guess. Also, I can't escape thinking this is what the mice and rats…
hudbwu on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 20, 2026
ObvIOusLy, the correct formula for the triangles at the start is (upper_left + upper_right) * upper_left , which gives us…