Football and healthcare–watch me make the connection

You should watch me write these posts. I had no idea this post was going to end up talking about healthcare. Jesse Galef of Measuring Doubt caught ESPN writer Pat Yasinkas making a classic mistake called outcome bias. Talking about the Atlanta Falcons who tried and failed on a fourth and inches attempts: When Mike [...]

Earth seen at night from the International Space Station

I can’t remember who I was talking to, but I had an interesting discussion the other day about how people might–I said might–think of humanity and the Earth as a whole once commercial flights to space became commonplace. Here’s a video from the International Space Station that might give us a glimpse into what that [...]

Can we move onto what we’re going to do about climate change yet?

I thought I’d take a couple seconds while I’m waiting for a model to run to pass on two links I thought were interesting: The first is that a study aiming to measure the Earth’s temperature increase over the past 60 years, and funded in part by people who have been vehement climate change deniers, [...]

Peters’ Pick: One hit ‘wonder what you were thinking on the rest of that album?’

Is it just me or is there a disturbing new trend in the music ionosphere? Lately, I have gone through the following steps of music discovery. Hear a hot new track that I really like. Play it 6 to 7 million times Get the album the song is on Categorically hate the album. Now don’t [...]