Fascinating exercise in game theory at the end of the Chargers-Raiders game. The situation was that a tie would send both team to the playoffs, while a win by either would knock the other team out. After a wild series of events, the game was...
Author: Paul Campos
You may remember Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule from such fustigations as "Boniface VIII: Upholder of the Faith or Liberal Squish?" and "Throw Bernie Sanders Down the Well So.
In a subthread in Scott's Lani Guinier post, Bijan Parsia takes me to task for supposedly consistently indulging on this blog in what he characterizes as ageism. He's responding to.
This astonishing piece of engineering is still a couple of weeks away from the end of its nearly one million mile journey, and about five months from being fully calibrated and operational, but the nerve-wracking task of unfolding the many intricate parts of the instrument...
Novak Djokovic is claiming in court documents that he tested positive for COVID on December 16. This would be at least the second time Djokovic has contracted COVID, as he.
That's the bottom line of this useful summary of the situation from David Wallace-Wells. In a nutshell: (1) Data from Europe and Asia confirm that Omicron is a lot less.
I'm front paging this comment from Tzimiskes, because it gets to the heart of something I've been brooding about ever since I read that imbecilic POLITICO piece early this morning: [T]he basic problem with the media is that they just can't accept the implications of...
I think I just realized something pretty basic: (1) The Republican party is trying to end anything resembling democracy in America on the basis of the claim that the Democratic.
This is an essay in POLITICO, by one of the publication's founders, that argues that political conflict in America today is basically Seinfeldian, in that it is about nothing significant,.
Apropos the counter-reformation afoot on the New Right, this is from the new WAPO profile of JD Vance: Vance’s friends split the difference: They say he’s the same guy but he’s been radicalized.“I think he’s gotten a lot more bitter and cynical — appropriately,” conservative...
In fact this may be the most shameless thing ever written, or possibly even thought: https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1479098783879340033 Just in case your mental flow chart has been disrupted by the event horizon.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1478925497786675206 It should be obvious that school closures in response to COVID represent a very difficult issue, requiring a careful balancing of enormous potential costs and benefits, often undertaken in.