Halfway There

Nixon in 1974 Many news stories dutifully report that Representative John Murtha (D-PA) was first elected to Congress in 1974. I have not se...

Physician, heel! NARTH is always good for a laugh, but not the funny kind. Derision is more appropriate. NARTH is the National Association...

All things being equal The concept of null hypothesis is a stumbling block to many statistics students. Perhaps people resist the notion of...

Humans are not well-ordered Mathematics is good stuff. I would never deny that. Still, mathematical ideas sometimes intrude where they do no...

A game for the skeptical masses Most people manage to hang on to religious beliefs even after abandoning their youthful devotion to the cult...

Looking at "luck" I am not prepared to enter into the concept of luck, as it is vulgarly called: philosophically it is indefensib...

Translating a nonexistent aria "Fake opera" is not an oxymoron. There is a quite remarkable example of an ersatz opus that was m...

[O]ne statement scientists often make but cannot justify is that the world was not created 6,000 years ago! In the present contentious envir...

What are people afraid of? The California legislative season has come to an end with our beloved governor's executive action on stacks o...

Do you know what "math envy" is? While mathematics is not particularly popular, many people are eager to press it into service. Yo...

I picked this up from Pharyngula , but it's been popping up in a number of different locations. Most of what follows is quoted text, wit...

When the power goes out, all stoplights are supposed to convert to four-way stop signs -- but in Hollywood, nobody can count that high. Los ...

[W]hen you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable , must be the truth... The Sign of the Four , Sir Arthur Cona...

A game the whole family can play This is a mind game: Imagine, if you will, the state of the world if you were the ultimate arbiter of good ...

This is a test. Yes, this is only a test. As one can plainly tell from the title of this post, this blog belongs to someone who has been aro...