Friday, November 29, 2024

For the math nerds in the audience (or, in our case, the audience)

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The following is a standard collection of word problems but they havea most distinguished pedigree. Any guesses? (Answer below the break) ...
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Thursday, November 28, 2024

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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    If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hu...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

"The trouble with revolutions is that they get in the hands of the wrong people."

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Phillip Marlowe's exchange with a private police officer guarding a gated community in 1942's The High Window raises some interesti...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

I would have expected it to be higher.

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 It probably would have been OK to round this one off at 2%. Dana Fradon, originally published 1/31/1977    
Monday, November 25, 2024

Google and the Case of the Missing Search Term

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Picking up the ball from Andrew Gelman's recent post on the declining quality of Google searches (which itself built on this one from ...
Friday, November 22, 2024

"You're right. We need to strengthen the dose... One part in ten million." -- Mitchell and Webb on Health Care

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That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E That Mitchell and Webb Look: Lifestyle Nutritionists
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Nine years ago at the blog -- reposting this partially because RadioLab hasn't gotten any better but mainly because I really like the title.

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Thursday, October 8, 2015 "So long and thanks for all the fish" I've fallen into this trap b...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Last things first – – a few thoughts on the Mars conversation and on 21st century futurism in general.

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There's a certain kind of "planning" that people indulge in when talking about things they know they will never do. It can be ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

A tale of two cities (no, really, the same story covers both of them)

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    [Blogger is having one of its weird days, so the formatting on this post will be a bit... quirky.] Adam Something (a highly recommended ...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Waiting for Goffman -- to understand how the New York Times' election coverage got so bad, you have to look beyond their election coverage.

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[written before the election, but it still seems valid] This pair of posts from almost nine years ago superficially would seem to have nothi...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Sunday must read by Josh Marshall

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This is Joseph. I found this piece by Josh Marshall to be a really good reply to the waves of doom and gloom that I have been seeing lately...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Randall has forgotten about induced demand

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A rare math nerd/transportation nerd twofer. From XKCD
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Twelve years ago at the blog -- people still bothered to think about Freakonomics

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Check out Steven Levitt's Wikipedia page . Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Back on Mars – – houseplant edition

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 [Picking up where we left off with our long neglected CSI:Mars thread .] The way we discuss and think about the future of space has come to...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Six years ago at the blog -- we've been meaning to get back to Mars (rhetorically speaking)

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Going through the draft folder, I realized we had left this thread half finished -- there's a lot to mock here -- but rather than just j...