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Technical Notes On Destroying Universities From Space With Large Rocks

Headline Students bark in protest to save the trees. Seems Western Michigan University was going to cut down some trees. Students duly went outside and barked. Anything to avoid studying---which…

Culture

Citation Deplatforming All Men Women Don’t Like

The Chronicle of Higher Education (A Cathedral&tm; publication) asks, and asks in earnest, "Academic Ethics: Should Scholars Avoid Citing the Work of Awful People?" by Brian Leiter. Across academe, many…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update LXII

Item Students Demand Professor Be Fired After He Champions Due Process, Says 'Accusers Sometimes Lie' Nearly 100 students at the University of Southern California attended a rally at noon on…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update LXI — Special Midweek Doom

Item Quantum physics really helped me understand my queer identity. This was sponsored by the BBC. The short clip probably provides more insanity per second than any other clip of…

Culture

A Joke About Race As Social Construct

Turns out Bhutan bans opinion polls. So I thought of making a poll asking this question: Should opinion polls be banned? * Yes, * No. Now there is only one…

Class Statistics

How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part VIII — Starting Stan

Review! You must at least review the first lessons---all class material is on one page for ease. I'll have more words about the mysticism of simulation, but I've said it…

Statistics

Insanity & Doom Update XLVI

A special all-reader-contribution edition of Doom! Item WeWork will stop serving meat at company events in effort to reduce environmental impact (Thanks to Sheri for the link.) The co-working startup…

Statistics

Everything Is Already In The Simulation

On Drudge a while back was linked the article "Pandemic 'could wipe out 900 million people,' experts warn" in some tabloid or sensationalistic rag (New York Times?). A chilling simulation…

John Pate on Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With PersonalityOctober 23, 2026
The plasticity available in the brain and CNS is the confounding factor. Nature via nurture. What actually gets expressed is…
Brian (bulaoren) on Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With PersonalityOctober 22, 2026
Across the world, many jurisdictions ban pet "pit bulls". Are they in error?
NLR on Against Numerology: Some Basic CalculationsOctober 19, 2026
The mathematician Richard Guy wrote a paper "The strong law of small numbers", where he said, facetiously, but also serirously:…
aGrimm on Book UpdateOctober 16, 2026
I'm looking forward to the book; warts and all the first was enlightening and fun to read.
John Pate on Book UpdateOctober 14, 2026
I'm a big fan of LaTeX. I wrote a class package that made it into one or more of the…