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Melody May Be A Learned Response?
Received this email from reader Don Siegel: Greetings. Vis a vis how music is getting worse---I'm a prof at Syr. Univ (Earth Sciences) but also lately, a solo jazz guitarist…
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This Week In Doom — WMBriggs Podcast 18 May 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-4itd-EsC8 Joseph Umstatt A look back at the past week in the worst that was in aural form, featuring the music of Joseph Umstatt, Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Fiorenza, and Luigi…
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Do People Really Believe In Chance & The Deadly Sin of Reification?
From our very own JMJ, who asked this in response to an announcement of my new book (read this first): Briggs, how many people how you encountered who need these…
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The Deadly Sin Of Reification Strikes Again!
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/725150630441000960 If you can't see the tweet, and tweets are ephemeral, the screen shot is also given. Now I do not give a damn about the election, so please not…
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Masters Predictions & (Some) Statistics — Podcast Bonus
PODCAST BONUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNsyJf2MX2w See last Master's year's predictions here. Since not much has changed, I'm doing a lot of copying and pasting. The Podcast bonus is because of the screwed…
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Keenan’s $100-Grand Climate Challenge & Randomness
Lots of people are asking me about Douglas Keenan's challenge to identify which time series meets a certain criterion. If our betters are as good as they say at identifying…
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Stream: Academics Increasingly See Christianity As A Sickness To Be ‘Treated’
Today's post is at The Stream: Academics Increasingly See Christianity as a Sickness to be 'Treated'. There is a trend in academia to seek for materialistic explanations of religion, particularly…
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Tide Gauge Locations And Sea Level Rise, Some Statistical Concerns
Marcel Crok asked me to comment on the peer-reviewed paper "Tide gauge location and the measurement of global sea level rise" Beenstock (yes) and others in the journal Environmental and…