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Induction & Essence
Suppose we observe a raven. It's black. We see a second, also black. And so on for a few dozen more. We reason, or rather we argue with ourselves, "Since…
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The Big Bang, Eternal Inflation & Many Worlds
We're back to our Edge series of ideas scientists wish more people knew about. Today is John C. Mather and the Big Bang. Mather isn't pleased with popular conceptions. What…
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What Russia Wants, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Editor's note: This is Part I of two parts. There are two surefire ways to insanity, The Abbott once told me. The first is to contemplate The Infinite always. The…
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Hypernumeracy
John Allen Paulos wrote of innumeracy, the mild malady of being unable to work with numbers. "I'm not primarily concerned with esoteric mathematics here, only with some feel for numbers…
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Why Does The Left Always Win?
Why does the Left always win? Easiest answer in the world! They fight. They shoot to kill. They hang traitors. They do not retreat unless faced with overwhelming forces. They…
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Comments on The Flight 93 Election. Let’s Roll
From reader Dean Ericson and from many other sources, the required must-read "The Flight 93 Election" by Publius Decius Mus at the sober Claremont Review of Books. If you support…
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Stream: Our New Satanic Moment
Today's post is at The Stream: Our New Satanic Moment: A seemingly paradoxical trend of "enlightenment" and brutality. See below for important caveats. These once United States have had Satanic…
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Preface to Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics
The book is now at a 15% discount at Amazon (I apologize for the price). Buy today. And buy again tomorrow! This will be linked permanently on the book's official…