ARE AIRPLANES SAFE?
ANOTHER PLANE CRASHES. ARE AIRPLANES SAFE?
in this corner, from the mystery fairy land of Science, we have ACTUAL
STATISTICS
and in this corner, we have RECENCY EFFECTS and AVAILABILITY HEURISTICS
ROUND ONE…. FIGHT!
The Questions
What are the physical phenomena?
What are their magnitudes?
What are their preconditions?
How well are they understood?
How well can they be modeled?
What do they make possible?
What do they forbid?
What is known today?
What are the gaps in what I know?
When would I need to know more to solve a problem?
How could I find it?
2009 05 29
Shut up about 2012 will you.
Everything you need to know about the Aztecs can be summed up in the fact that one of their months is called Tlacaxipehualiztli, which means MAN FLAYING.
2009 01 22
2009 01 19
2009 01 18
growing up
On reddit: “What made you realize you were an adult?”
My response:
This happened to me in two stages. In stage one, I realized that if I
wanted a reeses peanut butter cup, I could just fucking buy one and
eat it. Nobody could tell me not to.
In stage two, my wife told me not to.
2008 12 11
H2ghetto
Bottled water at conference, 5 dollars.
Bottled water at cvs a block away, 1 dollar.
stickin’ it to the man,
Priceless.
2008 11 18
2008 10 09
soup fail
[sarah] omg fail. any soup recipe that calls for canned soup as an ingredient is not a soup recipe.