Dontcha just love libraries? Nothing quite like the serendipity of finding something unexpected on the shelf next to the thing you were looking for. On my mission to better understand statistics, I was at the downtown Albuquerque library Saturday going through all the stale, musty old stats textbooks when I stumbled up on Edward Tufte’s …
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I was talking to my daughter, Nora, and her friend, Andy, last night about snow days. We all anecdotally remember the kids having a lot more snow days in the past, but it’s been years – Andy said he’s pretty sure at least four – since school here in Albuquerque’s had to be cancelled because …
It’s one of those fabulous examples of yet another huge world about which we know nothing: the realm of the symbiotic fungi living on the leaves of plants. All plants seem to have ’em, but why are they there? They suck up a small amount of the plant’s energy, and in the brutal economics of …
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Chris Mooney was at yesterday’s Congressional hearing on what is now euphemistically being called in Washington “sound science”: The House Committee on Resources’ “sound science” hearing I attended yesterday represented, in my view, a fairly stunning attempt by Republican legislators to cast themselves as the party of “science,” while pushing proposals that would actually deemphasize …
I’m looking for suggestions on a good statistics book.
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My book review of 100 Suns. That’s the “Mike” shot, the first hydrogen bomb – arguably a very important moment in history.