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Category Archives: Mathematics
Peer Review
Some thoughts on its corruption.
It’s highly overrated, and I’d say that in the age of the Internet, you’ll get much more rapid identification of issues via crowdsourcing.
The Missing Light
It’s a mystery:
As one participating scientist points out, to miss the mark by so much means what we understand about the universe is fundamentally wrong. The universe continues to be exciting, a little scary, but mostly—a mystery.
And yet some have the hubris to tell us they can predict the temperature of the planet and level of the seas decades from now.
The Heartland Climate Conference
An attempt to educate a reporter at Slate. It’s actually sort of a fisking by email.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Is it a hoax?
It wouldn’t surprise me. I think all this outlawing of plastic bags is silly.
Don’t Learn To Code
Always good advice, in any field of endeavor. Sadly, it doesn’t happen that much in education these days.
Stadium Wave Theory
A fairly rigorous treatment, and correction of Michael Mann.
Adjustments To Temperature Data
Bob Farquhar
Monte Morin has a great piece on him and the ISEE-3 reboot.
The Great Walls Of The Midwest
Would these stop tornadoes? And would they be worth the money?