A while ago I predicted that Kerry would never sign form SF-180 to release his military records. Well, sign he did, in a finely nuanced way. Kerry has deigned to allow his personal hagiographer, Michael Kranish, to see the records. Kranish assures us that everything is ship-shape.
Wake me up when Kerry’s complete records are [...]
Posted on June 7th, 2005 by pwyll
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The mathematically inclined reader may enjoy Ars Mathematica, a math blog with some rather good stuff. For instance, I learned that Herbert Wilf’s book generatingfunctionology is available for free download. As the great American mathematician E. Cartman once said, “Sweeet”.
Posted on June 7th, 2005 by pwyll
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From the University of Georgia:
Athens, Ga. - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that airbags installed in automobiles have saved some 10,000 lives as of January 2004. A just-released study by a statistician at the University of Georgia, however, casts doubt on that assertion.
In fact, said UGA statistics professor Mary C. Meyer, a [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2005 by pwyll
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Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can [...]
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The Christian Science Monitor reports:
MADRID - They had the names. They knew when and where the men met and how they raised money. They even had the cell -phone numbers of the group’s leaders. But with all that information, police were still unable to prevent the bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid on March [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2005 by pwyll
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The US Post Office is offering stamps commemorating American Scientists. Feynman and von Neumann are personal heroes of mine.
I wish the Post Office would issue Three Stooges stamps.
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