The Mermaid's Tale
Friday, August 17, 2018

I'm still mad about the Google Memo and David Brooks's column about it

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In 2017 there was the Google Memo ( When your memo's bad theories give girls heebie jeebies ... That's Damore ) and then David Bro...
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Thursday, August 16, 2018

The Litella Factor: Changing the claimspace of science

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W e may be starting to see rationalizations and wiggle-words as investigators gradually inch away from many of the genomics-based claims, su...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

On the 'probability' of rain (or disease): does it make sense?

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W e typically bandy the word probability  around, as if we actually understand it. The term, or a variant of it like probably , can be used ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Placebome.....can you believe that!

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I s it only religion that feeds and reassures the gullible, no matter what catastrophes strike? When a baby is born with serious health is...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Big Data: the new Waiting for Godot

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I n Samuel Beckett's cryptic play, Waiting for Godot , two men spend the entire play anticipating the arrival of someone, Godot, at whic...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Traffic jams ---> Trophic jams

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W e live in State College, PA, a small university town.  Well, it isn't nearly as small as it was when we moved here in 1985; Penn State...
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Saturday, August 4, 2018

On Montaigne's cat

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T he person who, in a sense, invented the blog way back in 1580 in the form of his meandering Essays , was Michel de Montaigne .  He rambled...
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