Today is the 7th day of Pesach. For the past year, the Eqyptians have been beset by the Ten Plagues. Dam, Tzfardaya, Kinim.. In English: Blood. Frogs. Lice. Wild Beasts. Pestilence. Boils. Hail. Locusts. Darkness. Slaying of the First-born. We’ve put blood on our doorposts to protect us from that last plague. And, now we are free, on the edge of Yam Suf, the Sea of Reeds.
Continue reading Seventh Heaven?
I have written before that our legal system makes many decisions without any understanding of the scientific (or mathematical) principles involved. And, because of that bad (as in wrong) decisions are made.
Continue reading Science <> Law
What a surprise- not! A new study (based upon US Bureau of Census data) has reported that folks who go to college earn $ 1 million more than those who don’t. No, not in one year, silly- over their lifetimes. Which comes to about $ 25K a year. Moreover, this data has been around for at least 40 years- because I knew these facts back when I was teaching.
Continue reading Choose Wisely
Well, we’ve been spending a lot of time these past two weeks dealing with the abandonment of logic and science by adults. So, today would be a good day to discuss one of the craziest delusions of the bunch-paraskevidekatriaphobia and it’s related delusion- triskadekaphobia. What are these? Fear of Friday the 13th and the number 13, in general.
As I am sure you know, I am a life-long technologist. OK. Maybe only since I was six- but that’s pretty much life-long. And, I’ve been trained in the scientific method. Which means one must develop a hypothesis- and try to prove it wrong. If one can’t, it provides validity to the scenario one considered.
Continue reading Just the facts, ma’am…
I am getting pretty tired of folks abandoning logic. They listen to “facts” that are clearly malarkey – but because they desperately want to live in a make-believe world, they aver them to be true.
