Sinead O’Connor: ‘There should be a full criminal investigation of the pope’ Sinead O’Connor is still singing. And she’s still speaking out against abuse — only now her 1992 stunt on “Saturday Night Live” almost seems prescient as the Roman Catholic Church faces a growing catalog of complaints about child sexual and physical assault by […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
Punk Rock Mathematics
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics – Technoccult interviews Tom Henderson 1) People use the average Joe’s poor mathematics as a way to control, exploit, and numerically fuck him over. 2) Mathematics is the subject in which, regardless of what the authorities tell you is true, you can verify every last iota of truth, with […]
Lies, damned lies and statistics
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
We’re so good at medical studies that most of them are wrong The problem is that our statistical tools for evaluating the probability of error haven’t kept pace with our own successes, in the form of our ability to obtain massive data sets and perform multiple tests on them. Even given a low tolerance for […]
As if.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues “It is like the tobacco industry asking for compensation for lost revenues as a part of a settlement to address the health risks of smoking,” said Jake Schmidt, the international climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The worst of this racket is that […]
Norman Borlaug
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The Associated Press: Borlaug, who saved millions from hunger, dies “Norman E. Borlaug saved more lives than any man in human history,” said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program. “His heart was as big as his brilliant mind, but it was his passion and compassion that moved the world.”
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
Friday, October 2, 2009
The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn’t matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, […]
Now, see, Dominion? Not that big a deal.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months.
Iceland, not so much like Newfoundland
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Wall Street on the Tundra | Vanity Fair Since its fishing policy transformed Iceland, the place has become, in effect, a machine for turning cod into Ph.D.’s. But this, of course, creates a new problem: people with Ph.D.’s don’t want to fish for a living. They need something else to do. […] Enter investment banking.
Blackstrap Hawco
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Only occasionally do i feel moved to review something here. Well, “moved” would be the wrong word, because sometimes i do it out of whimsy more than admiration, and ‘here’ might not refer to the current incarnation of this blog. Anyways, after finishing Blackstrap Hawco i find myself wanting to say something. i always imagined […]
