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Trick'n

A common exercise in any intro statistic class is to split the students into two groups, one group flips a coin 100 times and records the results, another just makes 100 entries up off the top of their heads. The teacher then comes back, looks at the ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michael Mann

Interview with Elon Musk

If you ever read novels written by the late Robert Heinlein, you'd soon come across a character that was part scientist, part entrepreneur, part explorer, and wildly successful at all three. Of course, such people don't exist in real life, do ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  8 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Elon Musk,  Saturn Corporation,  NASA

Hutchinson Vs. Hair

In a best case scenario, both these candidates grind themselves into dust in the run up to the primary and the dem candidate wins office. Unlike Scozzafava, who withdrew hastily from NY-23 in the face of teabaggers gone mad, KBH is a mainstream ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

Last time we talked how money is raised for a business by issuing stock. But there’s another way to raise money: borrow it, which means a lender is needed. If you as an investor lend the US Treasury money, it’s called a Treasury bond or note. Loan a ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: John Doe,  United States Department of the Treasury

Evolving Pain in the Butt

Poor Kirk Cameron. From adorable childhood star of Growing Pains to washed up has been. In what appears to be a clumsy effort to recapture those glory days of youth, Cameron has gone full creationist, and now he and his creationist buddies have come up ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Kirk Cameron

Arctic Ecology in Flux, Wingnuts Still in Denial

Climate change is a complex science. Throw in the effects on fluctuating populations of indigenous and invasive species, and the processes become so interdependent that most researchers shy away. But one Arctic ecologist has taken on the challenge, and ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  20 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Michael Mann

Baja And Far Southwest US Brace For Rare Hurricane

Residents on the Baja Peninsula are facing a major hurricane and residents as far north as San Diego, Yuma, and even out toward Phoenix or Tuscon, should prepare for the possibility of an extraordinarily rare and potentially very dangerous tropical ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  31 Aug 2009

WH Approves Fishing Ban in Warming Arctic

There is currently no significant commercial fishing in the area, but fisheries managers expect it to become a target for commercial fishers chasing cod and snow crab as ice melts and fisheries shift north. The council drafted the plan to protect the ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  24 Aug 2009

Our Time Is Now

Nor is Gingrich alone in his most recent intellectually dishonest makeover. As the Rachel Maddow Show reveals in a segment aptly titled "Even they don't believe what they're saying," Gingrich is joined by two other far right lackeys in equating living ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  16 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Newt Gingrich,  U.S. Republican Party,  Rachel Maddow,  Barack Obama,  Jeb Bush

Screamers II

Call them Screamers. Dozens of purportedly patriotic citizens, bussed or flown to out of state political events with instructions from corporate-political front groups to pose as local constituents and engage in a most un-American practice. The ugly ...

From DARKSYDE, Daily Kos,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Rachel Maddow

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