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Dept. of Good Riddance?
What’s up? The world’s most overpaid and overrated athlete recently wrote a lame poem to announce his retirement from the game of basketball. (No, we aren’t talking about Amar’e Stoudemire.) In any case, this odd ode makes no reference to … Continue reading
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Best Final Project (Fall 2015)
Congratulations to our amazing student Andrea Londono. Her excellent video (see link above) explaining the law and ethics of BeatBox Beverages, a startup company located in Austin, Texas, received the most votes for “best presentation” from the students in our … Continue reading
Posted in Law
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Risk assessment
If you’re afraid of terrorism, mass shootings, or sharks, then don’t get behind the wheel. Via Wikipedia: “On average in 2012, 92 people were killed on the roadways of the U.S. each day, in 30,800 fatal crashes during the year.” … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Probability
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Stamp map
Click on the map to see a larger version (via David Rumsey Map Collection)
Posted in Culture, Maps
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Blog Kings
And the nominees are: (a) Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok (Marginal Revolution) (b) Robin Hanson (Overcoming Bias) (c) Jason Kottke (kottke) (d) Eugene Volokh & Company (Volokh Conspiracy) These “blog kings” are our favorite individual bloggers. Who else should we … Continue reading
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Objet d’art
We love how the artist (Lee Vandergrift) took an ordinary object and turned it into an “objet d’art”… Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted in Art, Culture
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True or False?
"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know." ~Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) pic.twitter.com/la7cjUQjsJ — Cliff Pickover (@pickover) November 24, 2015
Posted in Philosophy, Science, Truth
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“Since 1954, 34 Godzilla films have been made …”
That sentence is from Helena Kealey’s insightful essay “Transformation of Godzilla” (via The Telegraph). That’s about one Godzilla film every 21 months or so! So, here is our question of the day: Why do movie studios around the world still make Godzilla films? … Continue reading
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prior probability 