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Fun with Statistics
A Climate Urban Legend
Coldest Winter in 1000 Years Cometh – not.
This claim circulates in the internet and in many mainstream media as well: Scientists have allegedly predicted the coldest winter in 1,000 years for Europe. What is behind it? Nothing – no scientist has predicted anything like it. A Polish tabloid made up the story. An interesting lesson about today´s media.
Local hero
The Fine Structure Constant…
I have been expecting something like this since the original story came out. I don’t think it will get nearly as much coverage in the media.
Some Recent Science Reporting at Fox News
A Thought Experiment
Good Questions
Ann Althouse looks at Joshua Green’s Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi? and asks:
How evil is it for a candidate to play the role of a Nazi in war reenactments? How evil is it for a journalist to write about that and bury — in the 13th paragraph — the news that the same man — Rich Iott — has also done reenactment as a Civil War Union infantryman, a World War I doughboy and a World War II American infantryman and paratrooper?
More at Witch! Whore! …Nazi!
FWIW, a few years ago, at an event in Iowa, I met some people who reenact a Soviet unit in the “Great Patriotic War.” It never occurred to me to think about their politics in 21st century America.
Hollywood and Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg’s Take on “The Social Network”
“We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie, it doesn’t really matter that much.”
Via Ann Althouse.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 