Thursday, May 7, 2015

An Arkansas Tea Party group plans an anti-equality rally. Guess what happens next...

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There is a big and largely untold story here about cultural and political shifts south of the Mason Dixon Line. They don't get much cove...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Experiments in blogging -- A Statistician Walks into a Grocery Store

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As mentioned before, there are a couple of food-related megathreads in the queue, one on living on SNAP and one on the drought. Between thos...

Not 'diagnostic' in the sense that it aids in diagnosis

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I've been meaning to do a deep dive into how the language of the reform movement reflects its close connection with management consultin...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing

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A good brief overview of the main criticisms of standardized tests. Very entertaining and yet more balanced and thoughtful than what you wou...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Morricone Mondays

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Three compositions... And one tribute. Something for you to watch while I work on wrapping up the Mars thread and st...
Friday, May 1, 2015

A rich person's idea of a poor person's grocery

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I had actually forgotten how on-topic this video was. As mentioned before, there's a thread coming up on hunger in this country pro...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Eating reasonably healthy at the 99 Cents Only store

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I'm about to start another thread on how clueless most journalists are about living on a tight budget, so to do some research and becaus...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Not a left/right but a left coast/right coast issue

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I don't have time to delve into this as deeply as I would like, but there's an interesting labor story developing here in LA. It pi...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

'It's a good thing we didn't see what we just saw.'

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It takes a couple of minutes, but most of this relates to our old friends, the flack-to-hack ratio and the tame media. And you gotta ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Time of Apollo

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A while back I posted some vintage NASA videos at the teaching site. In keeping with our recent space thread, I thought I'd post one he...
Friday, April 24, 2015

This is where I got my numbers on radiation shielding for Mars One

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CEO Bas Lansdorp writing for  Space.com : The Mars One habitat will be covered by a necessary layer of soil that provides shielding even a...

A VERY intelligent rover

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As mentioned before, two of the major issues in the Mars One involve the definition of "existing" technology and the way the proj...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

“Six Minutes of Terror” -- why Mars landings are so difficult

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In case you were wondering what a sky crane looked like. This is one of the many reasons why aerospace people roll their eyes whe...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

"Clutching at straws: the illusion of existing technology" -- more Mars One

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Still working on a Mars One article and passing off my notes as blog posts. From  Failure to launch: the technical, ethical, and legal ca...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Disclaimer of the week

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I was checking my mail the other day and I saw this. I don't want to wast too much time on the marketing ethics of people who p...