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HANDY Not So Dandy: NASA-Funded Mathematical Model Of Doom

Mathematically minded Remember back in the 1990s when otherwise intelligent people would look to the scientific literature and say, "Those guys must be right. They used a computer model." A…

Culture

On The College Bubble—Update

Must-reading from the Wall Street Journal. Richard Vedder: "The Real Reason College Costs So Much. The expert on the economics of higher education explains how subsidies fuel rising prices and…

Culture

Herd Immunity And Christianity

There on that hillock is a herd of cattle, all but one of which is inoculated against hoof-and-mouth disease. Chances are the one beast that escaped vaccination won't fall ill…

Culture Philosophy

The Closing Of The Scientific Mind

The title was swiped from Commentary Magazine's piece of the same name by David Gelernter, which all should read. Since today is a busy day at the Briggs Ranch, just…

Culture

Professor Confesses Why She Inflates Grades

I had a student come into my office (where I was a visiting mathematics professor) shaking with emotion. This was a day or two before the final exam. I couldn't…

Fun

We Gave Them The Willies

I have returned from my conference where I gave a half-stunned audience my lecture The Top Six Fallacies In Statistics. But though I labored long and hard, it wasn't all…

Statistics

We’re 88% Through The International Year Of Statistics

I hadn't any idea we'd even started. But thanks to reader Dan Hughes and his link to the Wall Street Journal story Odds Lot: Statisticians Party Like It's 2.013 x…

Statistics

Scientists Claim Homosexual Men Have Different Faces

In the journal that brought you "Is a Woman's Preference for Chest Hair in Men Influenced by Parasite Threat?"1, "Accurate Identification of a Preference for Insertive Versus Receptive Intercourse from…

Cary Cotterman on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
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Cloudbuster on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
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Shawn Marshall on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
My wife and I drove out to Wyoming from Virginia last September and never turned the radio on. We enjoyed…
Tars Tarkas on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
Are you anywhere near WION? They broadcast in AM stereo and their sound quality is outstanding, at least if you…
Brian (bulaoren) on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
On February 17th, 2021, Rush Limbaugh died. Radio has never recovered.