Regular readers: no post on Saturday. Here's a nifty plot showing the percent of the world's population rubbed out by various epidemics. The percent population makes sense as a natural…

As I was writing this (Monday morning), a minor government official came on the radio and promised "We haven't seen the worst yet." What accounts for this monumental level of…

Dear reader, though you won't believe it, there is such a thing as the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. When you search its name, Google shows you this:…

You must be pretty dumb. Not the royal "you". You as in you, dear reader. This isn't me saying it. This is Harvard. Our best university, and therefore our best…

The title is an understatement: Heterogeneity in psychiatric diagnostic classification. This is a paper in Psychiatry Research by Kate Allsopp, John Read, Rhiannon Corcoran, and Peter Kinderman. Abstract (to which…