According to a relatively recent New York Times article, only 7.4 million of the 133 million blogs tracked by the blog search engine Technorati have been updated in the last 120 days. This blog has become perilously close to falling into that neglected 95%, as my last post is dated February 18th, 2009 (although to [...]
Apple does not, in fact, own the New York Times. For the entire day, however, the Times website has featured an overly prominent Apple advertisement. Much like an earlier Apple ad that appeared on several and tech sites, this ad is comprised of two interacting panels. The side panel feature John Hodgman and Justin Long [...]
I haven’t posted for a while, but all that’s about to change. My longtime friend David Goodman recently managed to get an article in Sunday’s Times, so I should at least be able to churn out a few blog posts.
According to Dave (and his team of experts) the last 70 years may soon be viewed [...]
It seems superfluous to blog about an article that was already number one on the New York Times most e-mailed list, but in this case, how can I resist. Apparently the average time for getting a PhD in the US is a whooping 8.2 years, with some fields, education for example, taking much longer. You’d [...]
I’m pretty surprised I missed this article in last week’s Science Times. It highlights the work of Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford known for the Simulation argument. He observed that humans are likely to one day produce highly complex computer simulations of the universe. These simulations would contain conscious humans. At that point, many [...]
Yesterday I rambled on about Facebook in lieu of discussing a New York Times article explaining why women and men must have the exact same average number of heterosexual partners, despite what survey’s reveal. Unfortunately the article fails to acknowledge the difference between a medians and averages, nor does it offer any real explanation for [...]
I was tempted to write a post on this Times article, which explains that on average, men and women must have the exact same number of heterosexual partners, despite what survey’s often reveal. Sadly the author of the article doesn’t seem inclined to acknowledge the difference between averages and medians, nor does anyone interviewed in [...]
I could be mistaken, but I think today’s slide show at the top of the New York Times homepage is the first time interactive content has appeared right at the top of the page. Equally notable is the invitation to comment right below the slideshow, since one of the user generated comments has been selected [...]