Saturday, November 13, 2010

The drinking habits of cats

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I did again what I shouldn't do, namely, read the "Comments" section on an article in the Yahoo! news. The article, a fun li...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

The law of small numbers

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Yesterday, I had a perfectly dreadful day. The events varied from the truly tragic (receiving news that a former student had been killed i...
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

The world's biggest leak

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Very few figures in the news lately have been as polarizing as Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange and the other senior memb...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The fallback plan

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This weekend (actually, at 2 AM on Sunday), most of the United States will return from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time.  My general re...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Nine out of ten doctors recommend this blog!

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According to a new study, alcohol is worse than heroin. At least that's what the headline says.  (Read the original story here .)  Of ...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Ghosts, and vampires, and were-weasels (oh my!)

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Halloween, of course, always brings out our deeply buried, most primitive fears.  With its millenium-old history of development from the Cel...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Cell phones, Charlie Chaplin, and time travelers

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So now all the woo-woos of the world are celebrating the "smoking gun" which finally proves that time travelers are real -- that p...
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