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February 2019

• FLIES AND ZEBRAS. 2019-02-24
• HOW THE ZEBRA GOT ITS STRIPES. 2019-02-23

January 2019

• HOW DID THE YAMNAYA —WHO WERE LATE ARRIVALS— PREVAIL? 2019-01-29 · 1 comment
• MIGRATION OR THE SPREAD OF CULTURE? 2019-01-27
• JOLABOKAFLOD—ANCIENT DNA. 2019-01-25 · 1 comment
• HOSPITALS AND SLEEP. 2019-01-21 · 1 comment

November 2018

• TAR AND VIKINGS. 2018-11-04
• ELEPHANTS AND BEES—BEE FENCES. 2018-11-03

October 2018

• THE PRICE OF ILLUMINATION IN LUMENS 2018-10-17
• NORDHAUS ON WHO BENEFITS FROM TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. 2018-10-15
• RECYCLING GLOSSY MAGAZINES. 2018-10-06
• REPAIRING A TURTLE’S SHELL WITH LEGOS. 2018-10-01

September 2018

• SHAWN BRADLEY AS A BLACK SWAN. 2018-09-30
• SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS. 2018-09-29
• WHAT MADE SHAWN BRADLEY SEVEN SIX INCHES TALL? 2018-09-28
• TESLA AND TWAIN AND THE PLAYERS. 2018-09-27
• TESLA AND TWAIN AND TWAIN’S WHITE SUIT. 2018-09-26
• WOLF TREES AND THE MARKET FOR TIMBER. 2018-09-18
• THE ROMANCE OF WOLF TREES. 2018-09-17
• A WOLF TREE. 2018-09-16
• “CROWN SHYNESS” —THE SHYNESS OF TREES. 2018-09-15
• CREOLE LANGUAGES 2018-09-14
• THE LOSS OF OLD LANGUAGES. 2018-09-13
• REPLICATING THE MARSHMALLOW EXPERIMENT WITH A LARGER SAMPLE. 2018-09-11
• SMALL SAMPLES. 2018-09-10
• NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMICS RETRACTS HIS ENDORSEMENT OF SOME STATISTICAL STUDIES. 2018-09-09
• PREENING BIRDS. 2018-09-04

August 2018

• STEPPING IN A BLACK HOLE. 2018-08-25
• VANTABLACK—THE NEW “BLACKEST BLACK”. 2018-08-24
• “MAMIHLAPINATAPEI” AND “GIGIL”. 2018-08-22 · 1 comment
• SELLING ICE TO PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT COLD IS. 2018-08-21
• HYPOCOGNITION 2018-08-20
• SENDING TRAFFIC TO A STREET WITH A 32 DEGREE GRADE. 2018-08-03

July 2018

• CONSTABLE AND CLOUDS. 2018-07-31
• CONSTABLE PAINTED WHAT HE SAW—THE WEATHER. 2018-07-30

March 2018

• POSTURAL CONTROL. 2018-03-15
• HOW DO FLAMINGOS STAND ON ONE LEG? 2018-03-14
• A PENGUIN DANCING. 2018-03-08
• PENGUINS ALL AROUND. 2018-03-07
• TENNIS BALLS—THE RETURN OF THE BLUE DRESS. 2018-03-05
• TENNIS BALLS AND LANGUAGE. 2018-03-04
• WHAT COLOR IS A TENNIS BALL? 2018-03-03
• REPLICATION FAIL FOR A STUDY USING BASEBALL CARDS. 2018-03-02
• “HOW PUNDITS NEVER GET IT WRONG”—-THE 40% RULE. 2018-03-01

February 2018

• COMPARING THE PIZZA STUDIES TO SHOWING GREEN JELLY BEANS CAUSE ACNE. 2018-02-28
• HOW TO MASSAGE DATA FOR PUBLICATION. 2018-02-27 · 1 comment
• PITCH TUNNELING. 2018-02-25
• ‘OUMUAMUA. 2018-02-18
• AN EXPLANATION FOR WHY SO MANY DISEASE SYMPTOMS ARE SIMILAR (COMMENT). 2018-02-17
• WARNING SIGNS OF SEPSIS—GO TO A HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY ! 2018-02-13
• BIG DATA COMES TO PREDICTIONS OF PATIENT OUTCOMES. 2018-02-03
• THE HAPPYORNOT BUTTON—-AN EXPERIMENT WITHOUT ANY CONTROLS. 2018-02-02

January 2018

• WHY SO LITTLE EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE FLU? 2018-01-29
• “FLU” AND “FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS”. 2018-01-28
• USING LANGUAGE FOR RESEARCH ON PAST WEATHER—THE FROZEN MUSKOXEN. 2018-01-27
• MONTAIGNE’S SUPPORT FOR DRINKING MEDIOCRE WINE. 2018-01-25
• IF YOUR FLU SYMPTOMS GET BETTER AND THEN GET WORSE, CALL YOUR DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY !!! 2018-01-24 · 1 comment
• THINGS TO LEARN ABOUT THE FLU. 2018-01-23
• HOW BUILDING A SET OF STEPS ILLUSTRATES “A FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTY OF THE UNIVERSE”. 2018-01-09 · 1 comment
• WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BUILD A SET OF STEPS. 2018-01-07
• SOME PROPOSED EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY IT TOO SO LONG TO INVENT ROPE. 2018-01-05
• WHAT IF I HAD HAD TO INVENT ROPE? 2018-01-04
• WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO INVENT ROPE? 2018-01-03
• MAYBE THE APPENDIX IS USEFUL AFTER ALL. 2018-01-02

December 2017

• ALGORITHMS SENDING TRAFFIC TO BUSY STREETS. 2017-12-24
• A COSMOLOGIST SAYS THAT ASTRONOMY IS “FAR SIMPLER” THAN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 2017-12-05
• WHAT THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DISCOVERY CONFIRMED. 2017-12-03
• PLACING THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE IN OUR TIME FRAME. 2017-12-02
• HERE ARE SOME OF THE ISLAY TASTING NOTES THAT DROPS OF WATER WILL INTENSIFY. 2017-12-01

November 2017

• WHY YOU SHOULD ADD A FEW DROPS OF WATER TO YOUR WHISKEY. 2017-11-30
• TURNING Ph.D DISSERTATIONS OF PEOPLE I KNOW INTO DANCES. 2017-11-23
• TURNING A Ph.D THESIS INTO A DANCE. 2017-11-22
• THE GOLD IN MY WEDDING RING AND NEUTRON STAR MERGERS. 2017-11-21
• GRAVITATIONAL WAVES. 2017-11-20 · 1 comment

May 2017

• FLAVOR NOTES FOR BOG BUTTER. 2017-05-02
• IDENTIFYING ANCIENT DNA IN MUD. 2017-05-01

April 2017

• EFFORTS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BOG BODIES. 2017-04-30
• THE UNCANNY NATURE OF BOGS. 2017-04-29
• HORSESHOE CRABS DONATING BLOOD. 2017-04-19
• HORSESHOE CRAB BLOOD. 2017-04-18
• MOSQUITOS AND EVIDENCE (COMMENT). 2017-04-16
• HOW A COMPUTER CHOOSES ITS NEXT CHESS MOVE. 2017-04-15
• OTHER APPLICATIONS OF FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY. 2017-04-14
• A MOSQUITO AND DNA. 2017-04-13 · 1 comment

March 2017

• THERE’S A LOT OF SPACE DUST ON EARTH. 2017-03-21
• THE KEY TO FINDING SPACE DUST IS TO FIND OUT WHICH PARTICLES NOT TO PAY ATTENTION TO. 2017-03-20
• THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AVOIDED USING PROBABILITIES IN THEIR FORECASTS. 2017-03-19
• SHOULD THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSIST IN A WEATHER FORECAST THAT IT KNOWS IS WRONG? 2017-03-18
• BOATY MCBOATFACE’S FIRST ANTARCTIC MISSION. 2017-03-17
• THE POTATO AND THE FUTURE CONQUEST OF SPACE. 2017-03-10
• UPDATE ON FIRST SLEEP/SECOND SLEEP. 2017-03-09
• “GOING FROM ZERO TO EPSILON,,,,” 2017-03-08
• ARBITRARILY. 2017-03-07
• THE KILLER FOG OF 1952. 2017-03-05
• TURNER’S LIGHT. 2017-03-04

February 2017

• MAYBE STATINS SHOULD BE GIVEN TO TRY TO PREVENT ALZHEIMER’S. 2017-02-20
• WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT EVIDENCE THAT STATINS MAY DELAY ALZHEIMER’S? 2017-02-19
• CHOOSING THE RIGHT LAB MICE FOR AN EXPERIMENT. 2017-02-17

January 2017

• MINNESOTA NICE AND THE ZIPPER MERGE. 2017-01-26
• HOW JET LAG AFFECTS BASEBALL GAMES. 2017-01-25 · 1 comment
• THE HAWKING INDEX. 2017-01-10
• YOU TOO CAN FIND MICROMETEORIC DUST IN THE GUTTERS OF YOUR HOUSE. 2017-01-03
• A NONSCIENTIST FINDS DUST FROM SPACE IN CITY GUTTERS. 2017-01-02
• MICROMETEORIC DUST FROM OUTER SPACE. 2017-01-01

December 2016

• PAINTING WITH UNSTABLE PAINT. 2016-12-29
• MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER DARK MATTER EXISTS. 2016-12-23
• IS THERE DARK MATTER? 2016-12-04

November 2016

• PLACEBO BUTTONS. 2016-11-26
• WHAT IS UNDERGROUND IN A FOREST. 2016-11-23
• A TREE BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD A BANQUET INSIDE IT. 2016-11-22
• TREEBEARD AND OTHER ENTS. 2016-11-13
• ANTHROMORPHIZING TREES. 2016-11-12
• TREES WHO ARE TRUE FRIENDS. 2016-11-11
• HOW DO TREES COORDINATE THEIR ACTIVITIES? 2016-11-10
• DO TREES COORDINATE THEIR ACTIVITIES ? 2016-11-09
• WHY DO OAKS HAVE MAST YEARS? 2016-11-08
• LOTS OF ACORNS AND LOTS OF CHIPMUNKS. 2016-11-07

October 2016

• CATCHING A GRAPE IN YOUR MOUTH DROPPED FROM 101 FEET HIGH. 2016-10-27
• FERMI PROBLEMS. 2016-10-25
• A STATISTICAL METHOD FOR ESTIMATING HOW MANY PIANO TUNERS THERE ARE IN CHICAGO. 2016-10-24
• A STATISTICAL METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF RATS IN NEW YORK CITY. 2016-10-23
• THERE ARE TEN TIMES MORE GALAXIES IN THE UNIVERSE THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED. 2016-10-21
• USING THE WRONG ALGORITHM (COMMENT). 2016-10-17
• CHILDREN ARE “PROMISCUOUSLY NORMATIVE”. 2016-10-01

September 2016

• HOPE FOR READING THE SCROLLS AT HERCULANEUM. 2016-09-27
• COUNTING AND CLASSIFYING MILLIONS OF GALAXIES. 2016-09-26
• MORE SUCCESSES OF NONSCIENTISTS HELPING WITH LABOR-INTENSIVE SCIENCE. 2016-09-25
• MORE GROSS SCIENCE—ANCIENT POOP. 2016-09-21 · 1 comment
• “GROSS SCIENCE”— THE PROS AND CONS OF INCEST (COMMENT). 2016-09-20
• DIVERSITY AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE PANDA SPECIES (COMMENT). 2016-09-19
• PEOPLE IN PANDA SUITS SOAKED IN PANDA URINE. 2016-09-18 · 1 comment
• THE EFFECTS OF MINOR VARIATIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENT ON GENETIC EXPERIMENTS. 2016-09-01

August 2016

• “10-TRILLIONTHS OF YOUR SUNTAN COMES FROM GALAXIES BEYOND THE MILKY WAY.” 2016-08-15
• BAYESIAN STATISTICS AND DENTAL FLOSS. 2016-08-14
• ‘WHAT IS A PLACEBO FOR DENTAL FLOSS?” 2016-08-13 · 2 comments

July 2016

• IS UNANIMITY AN INDICATION THAT SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG? 2016-07-27
• COFFEE IN SPORTS—WHAT CAN’T IT DO? 2016-07-27
• THE EFFECTS OF PLACEBOS ON PARTICULAR DISEASES. 2016-07-26 · 2 comments
• PLACEBOS—THE MOST STUDIED DRUGS. 2016-07-25
• STEVE MARTIN’S TAKE ON PLACEBOS. 2016-07-24
• IT MATTERS WHO DOES THE EXPERIMENT. 2016-07-23
• THE BRITISH POMPEII. 2016-07-15
• THE BURIAL MOUNDS AT STONEHENGE. 2016-07-11
• ARCHAEOLOGY WITHOUT DIGGING. 2016-07-10

June 2016

• CIPRO—MILLIONS OF PRESCRIPTIONS, SPARSE DATA. 2016-06-22
• DRUG WARNINGS SHOULD INCLUDE NUMBERS IN ADDITION TO VAGUE WORDS—CIPRO. 2016-06-21
• WHAT WE KNOW WITH CERTAINTY ABOUT THE FIRST SECOND AFTER THE “BIG BANG”. 2016-06-10
• THE BIG BANG—“THE TIME AT WHICH WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THE UNIVERSE WAS DOING”. 2016-06-09
• THE “ENIAC GIRLS”. 2016-06-08
• THE WOMEN OF BLETCHLEY PARK. 2016-06-07
• “THE DEB WHO SANK THE BISMARCK”. 2016-06-06

May 2016

• THE PROBLEM OF MIXED DNA. 2016-05-28
• THE PROBLEM WITH “TOUCH DNA”. 2016-05-27
• THE UNCERTAINTIES OF DNA EVIDENCE. 2016-05-26
• THREE PROBLEMS WITH THE BIG BANG THEORY. 2016-05-15
• SUMMARIZING WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BIG BANG. 2016-05-14
• SUMMARIZING EVIDENCE FOR THE BIG BANG. 2016-05-13
• THE FIRST PAPER BASED ON DOMINANT WRITING CONTRIBUTIONS BY NON-EXPERT CITIZEN SCIENTISTS. 2016-05-06
• UPDATE ON COMPUTER GAMES AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 2016-05-05

April 2016

• CAN OUTSIDERS ANALYZE COMPLEX DATA MEDICAL DATASETS? 2016-04-15
• “RESEARCH PARASITES”. 2016-04-14
• A THEORY THAT SOME LANGUAGES HAVE BEEN MADE DIFFICULT SO THAT OUTSIDERS WON’T LEARN THEM. 2016-04-08
• A CHILD WHO SAW THE SKY AS COLORLESS. 2016-04-07
• CAN AN ENGLISH SPEAKER DISTINGUISH SHADES OF GREEN WITHOUT HAVING LOTS OF WORDS FOR GREEN? 2016-04-06
• CAN A PERSON WHO SPEAKS A LANGUAGE WITH NO WORD FOR BLUE DISTINGUISH BLUE FROM GREEN? 2016-04-05
• THE STRONG AND THE WEAK WHORFIAN HYPOTHESIS. 2016-04-04 · 1 comment

March 2016

• SMALL SAMPLES IN ARCHAEOLOGY. 2016-03-22
• WERE THE IRISH IN IRELAND BEFORE ANY CELT INVASION? 2016-03-20
• MAYBE YOU DON’T HAVE A FIXED AMOUNT OF WILLPOWER. 2016-03-15
• “THE ABSENCE OF ABSENCE”. 2016-03-14
• HOW LINNAEUS INVENTED THE INDEX CARD. 2016-03-11

February 2016

• EXPLAINING “THE END OF THE REIGN OF STATISTICS”. 2016-02-25
• “THE END OF THE REIGN OF STATISTICS”—TONIGHT ON PBS. 2016-02-24
• GALAXIES. 2016-02-16
• WHAT CAME BEFORE WHATEVER CAME BEFORE THE BIG BANG? 2016-02-15
• SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS THAT CAN DETECT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES. 2016-02-14
• “SANDWICH”. 2016-02-12
• CAN A THEORY BE ESTABLISHED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF EXPERIMENTS THAT CAN’T BE REPLICATED? 2016-02-11
• “THE CRUSADE AGAINST MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS”. 2016-02-10
• HOW SHOULD SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS REACT IF THERE ARE REPRODUCIBILITY PROBLEMS WITH TWO THIRDS OF STUDIES?. 2016-02-09
• A NEW JOURNAL ON THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF EXPERIMENTS. 2016-02-08
• THE MISSING POST—“…IT IS DIFFERENT WHEN IT IS YOUR MOTHER.” 2016-02-02

January 2016

• IT IS DIFFERENT WHEN IT IS YOUR WIFE. 2016-01-10

December 2015

• INVENTING SCIENCE BY INTRODUCING THE WORD “DISCOVERY”. 2015-12-29
• A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF THE BIG BANG. 2015-12-28
• FOOD CAN AFFECT INDIVIDUALS VERY DIFFERENTLY. 2015-12-19
• DECIDING ABOUT A PAINTING AS QUICK AS A FLASH. 2015-12-18
• THE EVOLUTION OF A SPECIES CAN HAPPEN QUICKLY. 2015-12-11 · 1 comment
• TIME IMMEMORIAL. 2015-12-10
• THE FIGHT AGAINST INVASIVE SPECIES. 2015-12-09
• MORE DISCOVERIES ABOUT STONEHENGE. 2015-12-08
• APPARENTLY WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHY THE GIRAFFE GOT ITS LONG NECK. 2015-12-04
• HOW DID THE GIRAFFE GET ITS LONG NECK? 2015-12-03
• BILLIONS AND BILLIONS—“WHEN I HEARD THE LEARNED ASTRONOMER….” 2015-12-02

November 2015

• “STUDIES SHOW….”—GREEN JELLY BEANS. 2015-11-22
• “SO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES TURNS OUT TO BE STATIC.”. 2015-11-21
• THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. 2015-11-21
• THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND. 2015-11-20
• STUDIES SHOW THAT ALCOHOL REDUCES THE RISK OF DEMENTIA. 2015-11-07

October 2015

• AND A PREDICTION FOR THE WORLD SERIES. 2015-10-27
• THE 2015 WORLD SERIES— DANIEL MURPHY’S EXPERIMENT IN RANDOMNESS. 2015-10-27
• PREDICTIONS SHOULD USE NUMBERS. 2015-10-25
• ECONOMICS HAS A DIFFERENT REPLICATION PROBLEM. 2015-10-22
• 29 WAYS OF DESIGNING AN EXPERIMENT. 2015-10-21
• HOW HEAVY IS A LARGE TREE? 2015-10-05

September 2015

• THE IG NOBELS RECOGNIZE THE DISCOVERY THAT “HUH” IS A UNIVERSAL WORD. 2015-09-23
• IT’S NOT A SCOOP UNLESS OTHERS REPORT ON IT. 2015-09-17
• GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE GETS THE SCOOP ON THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. 2015-09-16
• THE STONEHENGE HIDDEN LANDSCAPE PROJECT. 2015-09-12
• SOME REASONS WHY THE REPRODUCIBILITY PROJECT WAS BOUND TO FIND SOME STUDY RESULTS THAT DON’T HOLD UP. 2015-09-06
• WHY THE REPRODUCIBILITY PROJECT RESULTS ARE A GOOD THING. 2015-09-05
• THE REPRODUCIBILITY PROJECT. 2015-09-04

August 2015

• NIGHT HERON POOP. 2015-08-25
• NOW YOU CAN EXPERIENCE WHAT THE FIRST FLIGHT WAS LIKE. 2015-08-22
• THE WRIGHT BROTHERS SOLVING THE SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS OF HOW TO FLY. 2015-08-21
• WEDGWOOD—A BUSINESSMAN DOING SCIENCE. 2015-08-20
• TIME AND MOTION STUDY COMES TO BANK ROBBERY. 2015-08-19
• SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS THAT GOES UNRECOGNIZED AS SCIENCE (COMMENT). 2015-08-18 · 1 comment
• THE PERRY MASTODON. 2015-08-17
• FINALLY DIGGING UP THE YORKTOWN MASTODON. 2015-08-16
• QUESTIONING ALL NUTRIENT STUDIES. 2015-08-06
• IT’S GOING TO BE OFFICIALLY OK TO EAT EGGS—AFTER OVER 30 YEARS. 2015-08-05

July 2015

• BIG DATA AND MEDICINES. 2015-07-30
• PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF ALL CLINICAL TRIALS. 2015-07-29
• YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERONS. 2015-07-02 · 2 comments

June 2015

• AN ARGUMENT FOR ALIEN PLANTS. 2015-06-30
• FORMULA 1 AND TREATING HEART ATTACKS. 2015-06-26 · 3 comments
• REDUCING DEATHS FROM HEART ATTACKS WITHOUT A SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH. 2015-06-25 · 1 comment
• BREAST SELF EXAMINATION AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS. 2015-06-01

May 2015

• SCIENCE VERSUS THE HEALTH OF PATIENTS. 2015-05-31
• IS THE “GOLD STANDARD” THE ONLY TEST? 2015-05-30
• THE CHINESE EYEGLASS EXPERIMENT. 2015-05-29
• PASSING WARNINGS ALONG. 2015-05-27
• THE CHICKADEE’S SONG. 2015-05-26
• TUFTED TITMICE—“THE FOREST’S CROSSING GUARDS”. 2015-05-25
• THE MEERKAT AND JELLYFISH WEB CAMS AT THE MARITIME AQUARIUM IN NORWALK. 2015-05-19 · 1 comment
• THE SKITTISHNESS OF MEERKATS. 2015-05-18 · 2 comments
• THOUSANDS OF HOSPITAL DEATHS BECAUSE OF DIRTY HANDS OF DOCTORS AND NURSES. 2015-05-08
• HOW A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SWAP WORKS. 2015-05-07
• “THE GREAT AMERICAN KIDNEY SWAP”. 2015-05-06
• PIGEONS AND THE CLIFFS OF VENICE. 2015-05-05
• THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY FLAWED TESTIMONY BY FBI EXPERTS. 2015-05-03
• THE NATURE OF THE FBI’S STATISTICAL ERRORS. 2015-05-02
• AN EMERGENCY IN AMERICA’S JUSTICE SYSTEM. 2015-05-01

April 2015

• A NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATING TECHNIQUE. 2015-04-20
• SYNESTHESIA AND FISHER-PRICE REFRIGERATOR LETTERS. 2015-04-14
• FAILURES OF PEER REVIEW AT JOURNALS WITH LEGITIMATE PUBLISHERS. 2015-04-07
• HUNDREDS OF FAKE SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN BOGUS JOURNALS. 2015-04-06 · 1 comment

March 2015

• A PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL BANS THE USE OF SIGNIFICANCE TESTS. 2015-03-14
• ALBERS AND COLOR. 2015-03-10
• THE SCIENCE OF WHY THE DRESS CHANGES COLOR. 2015-03-05
• IS THIS DRESS BLUE WITH A BLACK FRINGE OR WHITE WITH A GOLD FRINGE? 2015-03-04

February 2015

• WHAT DO SCIENTISTS MEAN NOW BY “THE BIG BANG”? 2015-02-14
• COULD THE UNIVERSE HAVE NO BEGINNING AND NO END? 2015-02-14
• THE DIFFICULTY OF ELIMINATING ALTERNATIVE COSMOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS. 2015-02-13
• COSMIC DUST SPOILS A COSMOLOGICAL FINDING. 2015-02-12
• WHY IT WAS THE VIKINGS WHO INVENTED THE BARREL. 2015-02-10

December 2014

• WINNING THE LOTTERY TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME. 2014-12-30
• HOW CAN GLOBAL LIFE EXPECTANCY HAVE INCREASED BY SIX YEARS WHEN LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS DECREASED IN SO MANY COUNTRIES? 2014-12-28
• COUNTRIES WHERE LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS NOT INCREASED (COMMENT). 2014-12-27
• IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE UNITED STATES HAS INCREASED BY FOUR YEARS. 2014-12-21
• IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, GLOBAL LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS INCREASED BY SIX YEARS. 2014-12-20
• PHOTOGRAPHS OF BUBBLES FREEZING IN MIDAIR. 2014-12-16
• THE RIGHT OF CONQUEST. 2014-12-10
• NEW FALSE PATERNITY ISSUES IN THE WAR OF THE ROSES. 2014-12-09

November 2014

• THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AS SCIENTISTS. 2014-11-14
• SKEPTICISM ABOUT BICYCLE MECHANICS. 2014-11-13
• PERFECTING THE GLIDER. 2014-11-12
• AN AIRPLANE IS LIKE A BICYCLE. 2014-11-11

September 2014

• 15 MORE UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES AT STONEHENGE. 2014-09-03
• A NEW DISCOVERY AT STONEHENGE. 2014-09-02

August 2014

• HOTSPUR POINTS OUT THAT CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. 2014-08-28

July 2014

• DELPHI—HOW THE GOD APOLLO SPOKE TO THE GREEKS. 2014-07-26 · 1 comment
• THE STRUGGLE TO GET HOSPITAL PERSONNEL TO WASH THEIR HANDS. 2014-07-21 · 2 comments
• TEACHING A BABY BIRD THE FINE POINTS OF FLYING. 2014-07-10

June 2014

• WALT WHITMAN AND THE LEARNED ASTRONOMER (COMMENT). 2014-06-26
• TRYING TO AVOID COSMIC DUST. 2014-06-25
• INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG—A CORRECTION. 2014-06-24

May 2014

• IN DEFENSE OF UGLY PROOFS. 2014-05-25
• WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC BEAUTY, ANYWAY? 2014-05-24
• IS BEAUTY TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY? 2014-05-23
• CONCEPTUAL ART AND SYMMETRY. 2014-05-22
• CHEESE CONSUMPTION AND DEADLY BEDSHEETS. 2014-05-12
• SMALL SAMPLE PROBLEMS—AND MONEYBALL. 2014-05-08
• THE FILE DRAWER EFFECT. 2014-05-07
• WHAT THE “WHEN I’M 64” EXPERIMENT WAS DESIGNED TO SHOW. 2014-05-06
• HOW THE EXPERIMENT WAS DONE. 2014-05-05
• A PRANK ON PSYCHOLOGY THAT FOLLOWED THE SOKAL HOAX. 2014-05-04

April 2014

• HOW THE DIALECT QUIZ WORKED FOR ME. 2014-04-27
• WHICH DIALECT DO YOU SPEAK? 2014-04-26 · 2 comments
• AN INSTITUTE TO STUDY HOW RESEARCH IS DONE. 2014-04-09

March 2014

• THE SCIENCE OF THE WIFFLE BALL. 2014-03-26
• HOW THE PHYSICISTS CHECKED THEIR EXPERIMENT. 2014-03-25
• WHEN I HEARD THE LEARNED ASTRONOMER…. 2014-03-24
• LARGE AND SMALL NUMBERS. 2014-03-23
• INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG. 2014-03-22
• ANOTHER ARTIST WITH DAMAGED EYESIGHT—CHUCK CLOSE. 2014-03-09

February 2014

• MARY JANE’S INTUITIONS ABOUT MATHEMATICS. 2014-02-08
• THE EXTERNAL REALITY HYPOTHESIS. 2014-02-07

January 2014

• A DATA REVOLUTION IN COSMOLOGY. 2014-01-22
• THE CURRENT LIMITS ON 3-D PRINTING. 2014-01-06
• A SCIENTIST AT WORK. 2014-01-03 · 1 comment
• THE SOKAL HOAX. 2014-01-01

December 2013

• “SCIENCE’S SOKAL MOMENT”. 2013-12-31
• IN FAVOR OF PUBLISHING MORE SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. 2013-12-30
• A BOYCOTT OF PRESTIGE SCIENCE JOURNALS. 2013-12-29

November 2013

• INTERRUPTING AT DINNER. 2013-11-25
• IS INTERRUPTING A MATTER OF STYLE ? 2013-11-24
• DO GREEKS INTERRUPT A LOT BECAUSE OF GREEK GRAMMAR? 2013-11-23
• CAN PEER REVIEW BE DISPENSED WITH? 2013-11-17
• “HOW SCIENCE GOES WRONG”. 2013-11-16
• IS “HUH” A WORD? 2013-11-15
• WHY IS “HUH” THE SAME IN SO MANY LANGUAGES? 2013-11-15
• IS “HUH” UNIVERSAL? 2013-11-14
• ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY—HAMLET IS A VIOLENT PLAY. 2013-11-04
• ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY—LIGHTING A TOWN WITH MIRRORS. 2013-11-02
• LAPHROAIG—MAYBE IT’S THE ISLAY WEATHER, AFTER ALL. 2013-11-01

October 2013

• HOW THE BARREL AFFECTS WHISKEY. 2013-10-31
• A LOCKED ROOM—OR SEALED BARREL—MYSTERY. 2013-10-30
• “CAN CHEMISTRY EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOURBON AND TENNESSEE WHISKEY?” 2013-10-29 · 1 comment
• THE ICEMAN HAS AT LEAST 19 LIVING RELATIVES. 2013-10-17
• LYME DISEASE IS OVER 5000 YEARS OLD. 2013-10-17
• WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF YOUR BEING HERE? 2013-10-08

September 2013

• EMPSON AND QUANTUM PHYSICS. 2013-09-30
• EMPSON—EMBRACING ALL THE MEANINGS. 2013-09-28
• RONALD COASE AND PHRENOLOGY. 2013-09-24
• HOW IMPORTANT IS STRENGTHENING A WEAKNESS? 2013-09-12
• IS THERE MORE LUCK IN SOCCER THAN IN OTHER SPORTS? 2013-09-11
• PENN AND TELLER LOOK AT VERMEER. 2013-09-10
• TIM JENISON PAINTS A VERMEER. 2013-09-09
• A THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION. 2013-09-07
• COW TIPPING DENIERS. 2013-09-05 · 1 comment
• A PLEA FOR PAYING MORE ATTENTION TO LYME DISEASE. 2013-09-01

August 2013

• THE VIEW THAT LYME DISEASE IS OVERDIAGNOSED. 2013-08-31
• LYME DISEASE—”A TREMENDOUS PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES”. 2013-08-30
• WHAT DUCT TAPE CAN’T DO. 2013-08-29
• THE TRANSCENDENT “INTERMEDIARY” STATUS OF TWINS (COMMENT). 2013-08-17 · 1 comment
• TWINS AND SALMON; TWINS AND VEGETABLES. 2013-08-16
• THE “LOGICAL CONNECTION” BETWEEN TWINS AND BIRDS. 2013-08-15 · 1 comment
• BINARY OPPOSITIONS AND TWINS. 2013-08-14
• TWINS AND BIRDS. 2013-08-13
• RESISTANCE TO CHANGE—THE SEMMELWEIS REFLEX. 2013-08-10
• PERSUADING FARMERS TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS. 2013-08-08
• HOW DO YOU GET NURSES TO ADOPT A COSTLESS LIFESAVING IDEA? 2013-08-06 · 1 comment
• HOW MEDICAL INNOVATIONS ARE ADOPTED. 2013-08-05 · 1 comment
• THE SECRET BEHIND THE PERFECT ALIBI (SPOILER ALERT). 2013-08-01

July 2013

• THE LOSS OF VAN GOGH’S COLORS. 2013-07-06

June 2013

• INTELLECTUAL JOKES. 2013-06-30 · 1 comment
• DOES YOUR LANGUAGE AFFECT HOW MUCH YOU SAVE? (COMMENT) 2013-06-19
• SOMETIMES EATING THE MARSHMALLOW IMMEDIATELY MAKES SENSE. 2013-06-10
• A MAP OF PANGEA. 2013-06-09 · 1 comment
• FAT BIRDS. 2013-06-07
• “OU SONT LES CICADAS D’ANTAN?” 2013-06-07

May 2013

• SAVING A LIFE WITH 3-D PRINTING 2013-05-24
• THE 23 WORDS THAT MAY BE 15,000 YEARS OLD. 2013-05-16
• HOW LONG DO WORDS LAST? 2013-05-15
• WAITING YEARS FOR A DROP OF LIQUID. 2013-05-01

April 2013

• A BLOG THAT REPORTS ON RETRACTIONS. 2013-04-30
• A PREFERENCE FOR CLEAR RATHER THAN MESSY RESULTS. 2013-04-29
• SPREADSHEET ERRORS (COMMENT). 2013-04-22
• DID TOOLS CHANGE MAN’S BODY? 2013-04-15
• SMALL SAMPLES—ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH PUBLISHED ARTICLES. 2013-04-14 · 1 comment
• TWIN STUDIES ARE NOT ABOUT TWINS. 2013-04-05

March 2013

• 380,000 YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG. 2013-03-24
• VIKING TECHNOLOGY—SUNSTONES. 2013-03-14

February 2013

• THE SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE. 2013-02-26
• POPPER’S ATTACK ON HEGEL. 2013-02-12
• HEGEL—”THE FATHER OF ALL PSEUDOTHINKERS”? 2013-02-11
• THE WONDER OF CELLOPHANE. 2013-02-01

December 2012

• OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU LIKE THE BOOK? 2012-12-29
• HOW TO RIG STATISTICAL EXPERIMENTS. 2012-12-28
• DECIDING TO MAKE LES MIS—THE MOVIE. 2012-12-23
• PRECISE DATA FOR A SINGLE PITCH. 2012-12-08
• RARE EVENTS—HITTING A BASEBALL THREE TIMES WITH ONE SWING. 2012-12-07
• WHY POKER PLAYERS AND SPORTS FANS MAKE BETTER PREDICTIONS. 2012-12-05
• PROBABILITY IS ABOUT THE BELIEF THAT THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE OUTCOMES. 2012-12-04
• STATISTICS—THE COURSE THAT SHOULD BE REQUIRED. 2012-12-03
• WHAT I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT EARTHQUAKES. 2012-12-01 · 1 comment

November 2012

• DID IT MATTER WHETHER WAS SANDY A HURRICANE? 2012-11-30
• LEGOS INTO SANDSTONE WITH 3D PRINTING. 2012-11-29
• LIFE IN OSTIA. 2012-11-27
• OSTIA. 2012-11-26 · 1 comment
• GIVING THANKS FOR THE BIG BANG. 2012-11-22
• MULLYGRUBS, CANTRIP, FLEECH, RANTUM SCOOT. 2012-11-08

October 2012

• ROMAN SCIENCE—GARLIC AND MAGNETS. 2012-10-27
• SUPPORT FOR A JOURNAL OF REPLICATION STUDIES. 2012-10-01

September 2012

• UNDERREPORTING FOLLOW-UP STUDIES. 2012-09-30
• THE COLOR REVOLUTION. 2012-09-25
• CAN QUALITY OF LIFE INCREASE EVEN THOUGH ENERGY SUPPLIES CAN’T GROW? 2012-09-23
• PHYSICAL LIMITS ON THE USE OF ENERGY RATHER THAN THE SUPPLY OF ENERGY. 2012-09-22
• THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS TO ENERGY GROWTH. 2012-09-21
• MALTHUSIANS AND PHYSICISTS; CORNUCOPIANS AND ECONOMISTS. 2012-09-20
• EXPONENTIAL ECONOMIST MEETS FINITE PHYSICIST (COMMENT). 2012-09-19

August 2012

• STEPHEN HAWKING’S REPHRASING OF THE QUESTION. 2012-08-01

July 2012

• REDEFINING NOTHING. 2012-07-31
• WHY IS THERE BEING RATHER THAN NOTHING? THE BIG BANG DOESN’T ANSWER THE QUESTION. 2012-07-30
• SOME THINGS BIRDS PERCEIVE. 2012-07-04

June 2012

• MANYPEEPLIA UPSIDOWNIA. 2012-06-30
• ENDURING LOVE. 2012-06-29
• GUINNESS AND THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS. 2012-06-15
• BUBBLES IN BEER AND THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. 2012-06-14
• A MATHEMATICAL BREAKTHROUGH ON THE BUBBLES IN GUINNESS. 2012-06-13
• DO GUINNESS BUBBLES SINK? 2012-06-12
• GUINNESS—THE POUR. 2012-06-11

May 2012

• GROWING A FLOWER FROM THE AGE OF WOOLLY MAMMOTHS. 2012-05-31
• WHICH CULTURES PUNISH FREELOADERS? 2012-05-29
• DIVERSIFYING THE POOL OF EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS—THE MECHANICAL TURK. 2012-05-28
• LOTS OF NEW JOURNALS OF NEGATIVE RESULTS. 2012-05-27
• A DINOSAUR THAT IS 65,000,038 YEARS OLD. 2012-05-26
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY THAT CERTAIN STATISTICAL STUDIES CAN BE REPLICATED ONLY 20% OF THE TIME? 2012-05-25
• “WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT SOMETHING CAUSES 16% OF CANCERS?” 2012-05-24
• WEBCAMS AND BIRD NESTS. 2012-05-23
• SOME THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT BIRD NESTS. 2012-05-22
• NIGHT HERON NESTS. 2012-05-21
• A CHART OF ATROCITIES. 2012-05-18
• 5% TO 20%—THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT “OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES”. 2012-05-17

April 2012

• AMERICANS AS AN INVASIVE SPECIES (COMMENT). 2012-04-26
• MAKING A GEARBOX WITH A 3D PRINTER. 2012-04-22
• EJECTING TONS OF ROCK INTO SPACE. 2012-04-16
• A DEFENSE OF INVASIVE SPECIES. 2012-04-06 · 2 comments
• SOME ADVANTAGES OF AUTISM. 2012-04-02

March 2012

• DAUGHTERS, BRAIDS, AND PONYTAILS. 2012-03-31
• THE PONYTAIL SHAPE EQUATION. 2012-03-30
• OTHELLO’S COMIC FOUNDATION. 2012-03-24
• THE LONG HISTORY OF LYME DISEASE. 2012-03-10
• “AUNT ALICE” IN CHICAGO AND SYRACUSE. 2012-03-05
• MORE WORDS FOR DUST BUNNIES. 2012-03-03
• WATCHING A MOVIE IN TANNU TUVA. 2012-03-01

February 2012

• RICHARD FEYNMAN AND THE QUEST FOR TANNU TUVA. 2012-02-29
• RICHARD FEYNMAN’S DREAM OF TANNU TUVA. 2012-02-28
• SAVING TUVAN WITH THE INTERNET. 2012-02-27
• “SKEEVY”—A NEW REGIONALISM. 2012-02-23
• FORENSIC LINGUISTICS—DEVIL STRIPS. 2012-02-23
• MICROACCENTS IN THE UNITED STATES—DUST BUNNIES. 2012-02-22
• WHY DON’T HUMANS HAVE STRIPES? 2012-02-13 · 1 comment
• DOTS AND LINES—ZEBRAS. 2012-02-12
• CAVE PAINTERS PAINTING WHAT THEY SAW. 2012-02-11
• RESEARCH ON SYNESTHESIA. 2012-02-08 · 1 comment
• ONE DROP EVERY EIGHT OR NINE YEARS. 2012-02-03

January 2012

• DECISION TREES FOR PATIENTS. 2012-01-21
• DECIDING WHAT KIND OF PATIENT YOU ARE. 2012-01-20 · 1 comment
• VICTORIAN HARPOONS IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WHALES. 2012-01-14 · 1 comment
• A PHYSICIST HAS EXPLAINED AN OBSERVATION BY LEONARDO. 2012-01-10
• KLUDGES. 2012-01-04

December 2011

• LEAPING INTO SOMEBODY ELSE’S MIND. 2011-12-24
• DOES COOKED FOOD PROVIDE MORE ENERGY? 2011-12-11

November 2011

• WERE LEATHER HELMETS BETTER? 2011-11-25
• PAINTING AN AVERAGE UNIVERSE. 2011-11-21
• THE AVERAGE COLOR OF THE UNIVERSE. 2011-11-20
• VERTEX. 2011-11-08
• FOLDIT REVISITED—ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR GAMERS. 2011-11-08

October 2011

• COPPER AND HOSPITAL INFECTIONS. 2011-10-28
• WATCHING OUT FOR GERMS. 2011-10-27
• WAS THE RED SOX COLLAPSE A ONE IN 278 MILLION EVENT? 2011-10-10
• APOPHENIA AND SPORTS JOURNALISM. 2011-10-09
• APOPHENIA—THE CARTOON. 2011-10-08
• DAVID HOCKNEY: “THERE’S A LOT MORE TO BE SEEN.” 2011-10-06
• FLATNESS AND THE SINGLE-LENS VIEW. 2011-10-05

September 2011

• APOPHENIA. 2011-09-25 · 1 comment
• FOLDIT REVISITED—A SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS FOR VIDEOGAMERS. 2011-09-19

August 2011

• TWIN TALK. 2011-08-30
• FORCING TWINS TO BE DIFFERENT. 2011-08-29
• TWINS THAT LOOK ALIKE ARE IDENTICAL. 2011-08-28
• WHY IDENTICAL TWINS ARE DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER. 2011-08-27
• A REASON WHY MONEY MAY NOT BUY HAPPINESS. 2011-08-20
• 491 FEEDINGS A DAY. 2011-08-18
• GREAT ARTISTS WITH BAD EYESIGHT. 2011-08-03
• LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND SHADOWS. 2011-08-02
• WHEN THE BLIND LEARN TO SEE. 2011-08-01

July 2011

• CONCEPTS AND WHAT WE SEE. 2011-07-31

June 2011

• ONE, TWO, MANY—EVIDENCE FOR THE WHORFIANS. 2011-06-01

May 2011

• A LANGUAGE WITH NO WORDS FOR TIME. 2011-05-31 · 1 comment
• STEAMPUNKING. 2011-05-29
• FINDINGS OF RESEARCH ON ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. 2011-05-21
• HAPPINESS—THE LOSADA RATIO. 2011-05-16
• THE UNCANNY VALLEY. 2011-05-10

April 2011

• SCHEDULING YOUR EFFORTS TO PERSUADE. 2011-04-27
• LEGAL DECISIONS AND THE TIME OF DAY. 2011-04-26
• COMPARING WORKS BY ARTISTS AND BY CHIMPANZEES. 2011-04-25
• PENGUINS AND FLIRTATION. 2011-04-24
• TIMELINES FOR LANGUAGES. 2011-04-20
• GUILTY PLEASURES—PHRAGMITES. 2011-04-18

March 2011

• IMPROVING ON THE WISDOM OF CROWDS—FISH. 2011-03-26
• FINDING THE WISDOM OF CROWDS—ONE PERSON AT A TIME. 2011-03-25
• ACADEMICS BEHAVING BADLY—THE ASH TRAY ARGUMENT. 2011-03-14

February 2011

• PRECISION IN COSMOLOGY. 2011-02-27
• THE BENEFITS AND COSTS OF FIGHTING MALARIA. 2011-02-26 · 3 comments
• MALARIA—780,000 DEATHS A YEAR. 2011-02-25
• MULTIPLE DAVID GELERTNERS. 2011-02-02
• LOTS OF BIG BANGS. 2011-02-01

November 2010

• GIVING THANKS THAT WE ARE HERE. 2010-11-25
• EVIDENCE FROM BEFORE THE BIG BANG. 2010-11-25
• CONFIDENCE PERSUADES—AND SO DOES OVERCONFIDENCE. 2010-11-05
• EXPERTS PREDICTING WHERE THERE ARE A THOUSAND VARIABLES. 2010-11-04
• OVERCONFIDENCE AMONG THE EXPERTS. 2010-11-03
• THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT. 2010-11-02 · 1 comment

October 2010

• HOW LONG IS THE COAST OF BRITAIN? 2010-10-26
• THE KOCH SNOWFLAKE—WHAT A FRACTAL LOOKS LIKE. 2010-10-25
• BENOIT MANDELBROT AND FRACTALS. 2010-10-25
• A NOVEL DRUG TEST DESIGNED TO COLLECT INFORMATION. 2010-10-24
• IN PRAISE OF NON-RANDOMIZED DATA GATHERING. 2010-10-22

September 2010

• EDUCATION FOR THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM. 2010-09-28
• HOW AUTISM’S FIRST CHILD LIVES. 2010-09-27
• “AUTISM’S FIRST CHILD.” 2010-09-26
• WHY NOSTALGIA IS GOOD FOR ME. 2010-09-25
• “I PLACED A JAR IN TENNESSEE.” 2010-09-23
• APPRECIATING AUTHENTIC NATURE AND ARTIFICIAL NATURE. 2010-09-22
• THE HEARTLESSNESS OF SOME CLINICAL TRIALS. 2010-09-21
• LETTING THE CONTROL GROUP SUFFER. 2010-09-20
• NEW YORK CITY—“AN ECOLOGICAL PARADISE.” 2010-09-18

August 2010

• RESEARCH ON WHETHER POWER CORRUPTS. 2010-08-28 · 1 comment
• COLLECTING MORE MEDICAL DATA. 2010-08-17
• CROWDSOURCING. 2010-08-12
• NONSCIENTISTS DOING BIOCHEMISTRY—THE VIDEO GAME. 2010-08-11
• FINDING ADDITIONAL DRUGS TO FIGHT DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA. 2010-08-10
• WERE THE HOMERIC GREEKS COLOR-BLIND? 2010-08-01 · 1 comment

July 2010

• DO LANGUAGES AFFECT THINKING ABOUT CAUSATION? 2010-07-31
• JOYCE APPLEBY’S DARWINIAN THEORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 2010-07-14
• GREGORY CLARK’S DARWINIAN THEORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 2010-07-13

June 2010

• THE INVENTION OF MAIZE. 2010-06-10
• METAMORPHOSIS—CATERPILLAR TO LIQUID TO BUTTERFLY. 2010-06-06

April 2010

• A SPRINGTIME THOUGHT. 2010-04-02

February 2010

• “YAKKITY YAKS”—HOW I FEEL ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. 2010-02-28
• THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM. 2010-02-27
• ACHIEVEMENTS BY PEOPLE ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM. 2010-02-26 · 1 comment
• THE SOLUTION TO “THE PHANTOM OF HEILBRONN” (SPOILER ALERT). 2010-02-25
• DINOSAURS WITH COLORED FEATHERS. 2010-02-19
• NOT TAKING YOUR MEDICINE—38%. 2010-02-16
• HEARTS PHYSICALLY BROKEN BY LOVE. 2010-02-15
• HOW INTELLIGENT IS AN OCTOPUS? 2010-02-04 · 1 comment

January 2010

• ‘THE WOMAN WITHOUT A FACE.” 2010-01-26 · 4 comments

December 2009

• JONAH LEHRER’S RECOMMENDATIONS ON NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS. 2009-12-31
• JONAH LEHRER ON THE SCIENCE OF NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS. 2009-12-30
• STAND-UP SCIENTISTS. 2009-12-28
• OCTOPUSES USING TOOLS. 2009-12-15
• THE EARLIEST GALAXIES YET SEEN. 2009-12-11
• THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND STARLINGS. 2009-12-08 · 2 comments
• MYTHBUSTERS: A CHRISTMAS RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE. 2009-12-06
• RUBE GOLDBERG LIVES. 2009-12-05
• BREAST SELF EXAMINATION AND BAYESIAN STATISTICS. 2009-12-02

November 2009

• FEYNMAN ON ELIMINATING ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS. 2009-11-30
• UTOPIA AND THANKSGIVING. 2009-11-26
• THE STANDUP SCIENTIST. 2009-11-25
• WHY DOCTORS AND BANKERS DRESS CONSERVATIVELY. 2009-11-24
• DOCTORS’ NECKTIES AND BAYESIAN STATISTICS. 2009-11-24
• A FUTURES MARKET FOR SWINE FLU. 2009-11-03 · 1 comment

October 2009

• THE COSTS OF TOO LITTLE MEDICAL TESTING. 2009-10-23
• BALANCING BENEFITS AND COSTS OF MAMMOGRAMS. 2009-10-22

September 2009

• DEFINING MAN: THE SPECIES THAT COOKS. 2009-09-30
• WHAT CAME BEFORE THE BIG BANG? 2009-09-12
• HOW OFTEN DOES BEST PRACTICE IN MEDICINE CHANGE? 2009-09-11
• COLLECTING DATA ON YOUR ILLNESS. 2009-09-11

August 2009

• KEEPING TRACK OF THE SEEDS. 2009-08-26
• CURBING RUNAWAY EXPENDITURE ON COMPUTERS. 2009-08-02

July 2009

• FLIPPING COINS WITH A BETTER THAN 50/50 PROBABILITY OF WINNING. 2009-07-31
• COMPARING EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. 2009-07-30
• SHOULD EVERYONE CARRY ASPIRIN? 2009-07-29
• HOW DO BRIGHT RED MALE CARDINALS SURVIVE? 2009-07-24
• FIGHTING TREATMENTS FOR LYME DISEASE. 2009-07-23
• DIMAGGIO DID IT TWICE. 2009-07-07
• FIREFLIES AND ROMANCE. 2009-07-03

June 2009

• YOU CAN’T REALLY MULTITASK. 2009-06-27 · 1 comment
• ALLOCATING ATTENTION. 2009-06-27
• AGREEING TO MY EXPERIENCE. 2009-06-26 · 1 comment
• WHY FOCUS ON A DOT? 2009-06-25
• PAYING ATTENTION TO A DOT. 2009-06-25
• POLAR BEARS AND MARSHMALLOWS (REVISITED). 2009-06-13
• OTHER LESSONS FROM MARSHMALLOWS. 2009-06-13
• NOT THINKING ABOUT THE MARSHMALLOW. 2009-06-12 · 1 comment
• CHILDREN WITH WILL POWER. 2009-06-11 · 7 comments
• PROTECTIVE DELUSIONS. 2009-06-07
• IT’S HARD TO TOLERATE BEING LOVED. 2009-06-06
• DEFENSES–GROWING STRONGER WITH AGE. 2009-06-05
• THE DIFFICULT LIVES OF WELL-ADJUSTED YOUNG MEN. 2009-06-04
• FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF “WELL-ADJUSTED” YOUNG MEN. 2009-06-04

May 2009

• REQUIRED SHARING OF NEGATIVE RESULTS. 2009-05-28
• PUTTING CLINICAL TRIALS AHEAD OF HUMAN LIVES (AGAIN). 2009-05-19
• NEUROSCIENTISTS AND CONJURERS—AND TELLER TALKS. 2009-05-09
• NEUROSCIENCE AND PICKPOCKETS. 2009-05-07

February 2009

• DID COOKING MAKE US HUMAN? 2009-02-23
• HEROISM AND CHECKLISTS. 2009-02-12
• IDENTICAL TWINS—IT’S NOT JUST DNA. 2009-02-07

January 2009

• “JUST ANOTHER THREE MINUTES” (COMMENT). 2009-01-27
• KITCHEN SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS. 2009-01-21
• TWO SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHY LANDSCAPE IS DEAD. 2009-01-19
• DOES EVOLUTION LEAD US TO LOVE LANDSCAPES? 2009-01-18
• THE BIG BANG OR A BIG BOUNCE? 2009-01-16
• AN EARLY VALENTINE. 2009-01-12

November 2008

• FINDING A PATTERN IN RANDOMNESS. 2008-11-26

October 2008

• JOURNALS OF NEGATIVE RESULTS. 2008-10-21
• WHY ARE ALMOST ONE THIRD OF ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS WRONG? 2008-10-20
• EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND NARRATIVE. 2008-10-01 · 3 comments
• EMPATHY AND NARRATIVE. 2008-10-01 · 1 comment

September 2008

• CLEAN CLOTHES FOR DOCTORS. 2008-09-24 · 1 comment
• SCOTT FITZGERALD, CRITIC. 2008-09-17
• DUELS—JAY AND CROW. 2008-09-09
• STATISTICAL THEORY AND LIFE CONSEQUENCES. 2008-09-08 · 1 comment
• BAYESIANS AND FREQUENTISTS. 2008-09-08
• CHOOSING AN ONCOLOGIST. 2008-09-08
• INTERNATIONAL ROCK-FLIPPING DAY. 2008-09-07 · 1 comment

June 2008

• TRAVELING WITHOUT GUIDEBOOKS. 2008-06-30
• DOES ALL PHYSICAL REALITY CONSIST OF MATHEMATICS? 2008-06-27
• RESTORING STREAMS. 2008-06-26

February 2008

• BUTTERFLIES AND SLEEP. 2008-02-11

January 2008

• MULTIPLE SELVES. 2008-01-17

December 2007

• LOOKING BACK– OPPOSITION TO SAVING LIVES BY USING CHECKLISTS. 2007-12-30

November 2007

• “PELL-MELL” TODAY. 2007-11-05 · 1 comment
• TOM WOLFE ON AMERICAN COLLEGES. 2007-11-05

September 2007

• ALEX, THE PARROT. 2007-09-22

March 2007

• WHY WHITE SOX AND CUB FANS AND DANES ARE HAPPY. 2007-03-25 · 5 comments
• SPRING THAWS AND STONE WALLS. 2007-03-22 · 1 comment
• RAMUNAJAN. 2007-03-22 · 1 comment

February 2007

• MENTAL ILLNESS OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS? 2007-02-28 · 1 comment
• A BIG STEP FORWARD IN USING THE WISDOM OF CROWDS. 2007-02-11
• PEOPLE ARE ALREADY USED TO PROBABILITIES. 2007-02-10

January 2007

• COLORS. 2007-01-28 · 3 comments

November 2006

• THE STARS AFFECT US IN THEIR BIRTHS 2006-11-29
• THE BIG BANG 2006-11-20