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Proving that you can find physics in everything, Sean Carroll points to a strange anomaly in the Super Bowl coin toss: the NFC has won 14 coin tosses in a row. The odds of this happening seem to be vanishingly small, making this a 3.8-sigma effect, almost enough to claim the detection of a new…
The latest salvo from the Australian in their war on science is a column from Bjorn Lomborg. Lomborg tells us:
Have you noticed how environmental campaigners almost inevitably say that not only is global warming happening and bad, but also that what we are seeing is even worse than expected?
This…
Frank Crary said:
[Kennesaw] was a response to Morton Grove's gun ban. Guess which "worked"
better?
If by "worked" you mean that crime rates were lower after the
relevant law than before, the answer is Morton Grove.
I'd like to see some data to back up this assertion: Specifically,
data…
At least when it comes to quackery, it is. An informal analysis of relevant stories on homeopathy reveals some sad results:
Fox news returned a total of 20 news stories; 5% were favorable towards homeopathy, 50% were unfavorable, and 45% were neutral.
NPR returned a total of 8 news stories; 12…
Indeed, but what are your chances of surviving the only apocalypse that matters? (The Big Atomic Blast.. something like that.)
Are you usually
1. Sitting in your fully stocked interplanetary spacecraft which can be launched in a matter of seconds?
2. Doing other shit.
Ha! I'm 2% more likely to survive. I only have to outrun you...
52%. The zombie apocalypse meet-up place is your house, by the way.
32%. I am so screwed. The zombies will eat me for breakfast before they come looking for you.