This week’s rant of the week is on one of the more common ways of lying with statistics.
Rant of the Week: 8/2/09-8/8/09
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Essay of the Week: 8/2/09-8/8/09
This week’s essay of the week is a report on the latest understanding of Celiac’s Disase.
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History is passing by
Henry Allingham has died. Harry Patch has died. There are now only three men left alive who served during World War I. And none of them saw active combat.
World War II veterans are also dying at a rapid rate. For example, Darrell “Shifty” Powers has recently died. He survive combat jumps and fight in both Normandy and Market Garden. He also fought through the Siege of Bastogne.
If you know anything about the history of World War II at all, you know that this man went through some of the toughest battles that American troops ever fought in World War II. It is amazing to me that a man could keep his sanity after going through all that, much less live to be 86 years old.
Strangely enough, it is hard to get a good account of all that Shifty went through on the internet. You would think that a man who was portrayed in all 10 episodes of a band of brothers would have more real info about him on the web. But here is the best account I could find.
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A pictures is worth a thousand words. So you know the British army is short on equipment. But in some of these pictures, they don’t even look like a first world army anymore.
An education on what the fed has done.
Timber frame houses stand the test of time. But you already knew that.
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Oil producers bracing for trouble.
Something to laugh about. Or cry. But who wants to spend all their days sobbing?
A collection of links about the health care bill.
A couple of new stories about the dangerous drywall from China.
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We Glow. Who would have thought?
Bankrupt Harvard, then go on to bankrupt the US.
It happened in New Jersey. What more do you need to know?
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Your daily serving of doom and gloom.
The post will make you remember why you don’t like cities. The comments will make you remember why you hate people.
The sun still quite and they tell us we should not be worried. So maybe you should start worrying.
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This is already destroying gardens near you.
Beggar thy neighbor. Really, the law allows no other choice. But it seems kind of immoral to take assets away from one group of workers and give them to another when they all paid in and all had the same agreement with the parent company. It will make for bad international relations as well.