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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 18 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 18 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: December 2008
What Jasper’s Not
I just ran across our list of names that Jasper ended up not being. We might still draw on these at some point (future children, dogs, projects, robots, servers, etc.). But for now, here were some that made the short list: Malachi, Duncan, Quinlan, Alaric, Hudson, Alistair, Declan, Xavier, Huxley, Lucien. And ones that got [...]
Dumb politicians
Palin got a lot of bad press for being, well, stupid. Particularly when it comes to civics. According to this story however, elected politicians are generally pretty poorly informed. When they took this quiz on civic literacy, they scored, on average, 44%, and average citizens who took it scored under 50%. Now, I don’t want [...]
The Agenda
I was lucky enough to chat with some folks on a program that airs in Ontario, “The Agenda with Steve Paikin.” Yes, I bumble, I stumble. It’s my thing.
Mankind is no island