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Math with Monty
Rebecca Goldin Ph.D There’s no way of better inspiring people to think about math than to give them a conundrum where the stakes are high. So it is in the Monty Hall Game, which became famous on the… more »
Hungering for a Solution
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constantquantum wrote 1 month ago: Have you got a solution to world hunger? Me neither. But that doesn’t mean I remain neutral o … more »
GAO, ABC, MSNBC Release Nature of Sensitive Military Equipment Available Online
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prestoncoleman wrote 2 months ago: The General Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today detailing the nature of sensitive mi … more »
Math with Monty
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 2 months ago: Rebecca Goldin Ph.D There’s no way of better inspiring people to think about math than to give the … more »
Up in Lights
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virescent wrote 3 months ago: Al Gore is publicizing the environment again. This time, it comes with professional ad-people and $ … more »
Nudging Ourselves Into Sanity
alison13 wrote 3 months ago: My idea of today’s best read is not anything by me, but rather, John Tierney’s excellent … more »
Baby's got a bad, bad name
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mighty red pen wrote 3 months ago: Moondog and I occasionally play a game called “Name I’m Glad I Don’t Have,” … more »
Denier Frederick Seitz dead at 96
kenlevenson wrote 4 months ago: Mr. Seitz’s obituary was notable to me not for his role as a denier per se, but his work for b … more »
leap into less choices
miamiprovocateur wrote 4 months ago: It’s leap day and that alone seems like an odd decision which leads to the question how do we … more »
Communication breakdown, it’s always the same
uradiate wrote 5 months ago: (Disclaimer: I swear I did not make this up. One of the emails below has been edited for leng … more »
Worrying Accomplishes Nothing in the "War On Terror"
Jacqueline Zenn wrote 5 months ago: Who is more dangerous to your health, Al-Qaeda or the Department of Homeland Security? For the answe … more »
The More Bad Data You See, The More Bad Data You'll See
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 6 months ago: Trevor Butterworth The media have trapped us in a feedback loop of doom and gloom preventing us from … more »
One starving polar bear, please
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Tuomo Järvelä wrote 6 months ago: “Today’s interpreters of the weather are what social scientists call availability entreprene … more »
On the 2007 Awards for Scientific Research Used to Perpetuate Gay Stereotypes
The Gay Recluse wrote 6 months ago: We could not look back at 2007 without offering our appreciation to all of the scientists out there … more »
John Tierney Still Wrong on Iraq
17oldelmroad wrote 9 months ago: We learned in the Salem News September 11th (“Tierney challenges general’s update on Iraq”) t … more »
Title IX
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jweiler wrote 1 year ago: This weekend marked the 35th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark act passed in 1972 that stipulate … more »
