Wading Through Treacle

From Wikipedia : "Gregory M. Cochran (born 1953) is a physicist and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, know...

I vaguely recall jamming my foot against the side of the bed while hoovering last week. By Easter Sunday the entire right foot was red, the ...

We had Alex and Adrian with us over the Easter and fell to talking .. as you do .. about the correlation between parental IQ and the intelli...

Oops! My inner SJW just there. That and a weakness for clickbait. When I first encountered this story , like everyone else I was spontaneo...

Because I review science-fiction books on Amazon , new authors email me asking for a review of their latest work. It's a bit embarrassin...

I'm refreshing and improving my knowledge of Bayesian Statistics , working through this OU text available at Amazon . In the firs...

The full title of the paper in the news today is " Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the gen...

I'm reading Mervyn King's excellent " The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy ". New...

So the Belgians caught  Salah Abdeslam , the logistician for the Paris attacks, and he will be extradited to Paris for interrogation. I doub...

Henry Kissinger once famously observed , “ Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world. ” The British seem to believe th...