West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Weekend Flashback

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[The Brett Kavanaugh hearings have touched on a number of threads we've had running in the blog over the years, so I thought I'd rep...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Atomic airplanes and Kodachrome moments.

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If was the sister publication to Galaxy Magazine, a bit less prestigious, but still well-respected and catering to the same hard-science au...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

"I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London."

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While reading up on public perceptions of the space race during the postwar era, I was disappointed to learn that my favorite Mort Sahl line...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Ley on the pre-history of the space station

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This 1953 piece by Willy Ley is interesting for any number of reasons, but there are a couple that are especially relevant to our recent thr...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Or you could have just taken away the bullets

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I have all sorts of problems with this Atlantic piece [ How Mars Will Be Policed by Geoff Manaugh] but before I get into those big complai...
Monday, September 24, 2018

On the plus side, the von Braun and Ley Zeppelin designs would make for some very cool steam-punk art

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Sometimes, when wandering over what should be well explored territory you come across a pair of familiar facts that suddenly strike you as s...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Fly me near the moon...

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This isn't really that big of a story – – a remounting of something we did 50 years ago only with some of the most difficult parts left ...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Poetic economics

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I've noticed the rise of a certain kind of proposal that makes little sense in terms of efficiency he, and resource utilization, but whi...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

If. Only.

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Lots of bloggers know that you can find tons of cool retro-future art (all in the public domain) in the Internet Archive's Galaxy ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The nurturing of absurdity

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There are a wealth of recent examples of arguments and interpretations that, despite being obviously absurd, not only make their way into th...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Michael Hiltzik's Donald Trump/Elon Musk analogy

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This has been out for a while and I believe we may have touched on it before, but Michael Hiltzik's recent piece for the LA Times has a...
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Friday, September 14, 2018

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I posted this without realizing how relevant it was. Don't get me wrong. I'd seen this video a number of times, but I didn't r...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Few 21st-century visionaries realize how old their future is – – Childhoods End edition

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I'm finding it increasingly difficult to read these accounts of bold, visionary thinkers without feeling an overwhelming sense of déjà v...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

More news on the terrestrial superstation front (and, yes, I will admit to a slight note of "I told you so" in this thread)

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. . . From Broadcasting and Cable magazine : CHICAGO, IL (July 18, 2018)- Weigel Broadcasting Co. announces the launch of the new multicas...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Here there be [the original] monsters.

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We've talked a lot about how, from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, science and technology really did follow the ever ...
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