Category Archives: Silliness

More Sea Ice

Posted on September 22, 2010 by rpg

This is just too beautiful. From DenialDepot, my favourite climate denialism site (browse their archives to see what I mean), we get this graph, which is elegant in its use of detail.

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The Pain of Being a Statistician

Posted on September 20, 2010 by rpg

I’m been meaning to write something non-trivial, but until then here’s something to entertain you. I’ve not had experiences this bad, and most of my collaborators are really good about discussing things, but sometimes…

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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

Posted on August 27, 2010 by rpg

Nicking Chad’s idea, as it’s Friday, tell me (us?) something I (we?) don’t know.

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Why can’t they do this at every conference?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by rpg

From, inevitably, the Improbable Research blog.

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The Power of Rhinoplasty

Posted on July 3, 2010 by rpg

Via the Improbable Research Blog (the essential resource for the sillier end of science), we learn of the latest advance in quackery quantum theory: the unhappening machine.

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Journalists, you are fallible. Get off the pedestal and join the common herd

Posted on June 28, 2010 by rpg

Note: some of these words were originally written by Simon Jenkins. Some were not. Others are responsible for encouraging this. So journalists are human after all. They are no different from bankers, politicians, lawyers, estate agents and perhaps even scientists. … Continue reading →

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Introducing Knot Theory

Posted on June 7, 2010 by rpg

This is too silly not to do… If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be W.B.R. Lickorish’s An Introduction to Knot Theory. I am an introduction to mathematical Knot Theory; the theory of knots and links … Continue reading →

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So confused I want to vomit

Posted on May 31, 2010 by rpg

This is a nice distraction from the Monday morning woes (not the normal woes, but that the wireless doesn’t like me: it’s not working at home for the second time in 6 months, and my work wireless doesn’t like my … Continue reading →

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I’ll have to try this on some poor student

Posted on May 22, 2010 by rpg

From the ever-odd masks of Eris: I only imagine the results, will it be a Gdansken experiment?

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Truth in Advertising?

Posted on May 11, 2010 by rpg

I’ve just received an email advertising a meeting: Biomathematics & Ecology: Education & Research. This is a clear case of fiddling the title to get an acronym. Yes, it’s BEER 2010 I hope it’s an accurate description of the meeting, … Continue reading →

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