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Once again, life got in the way of Steemit.  My wife had a heart attack in February, and that put quite a damper on blogging.  Most of the difficulty came not from the event itself but from the

This is the consent form I had to sign to enter the study on hybrid forecasting, which I originally described here.  Note that they do not promise to protect my identity, and they do not require me

I've been reading this book:  [image link] A full review will have to wait, but the essence of the book is that markets run on information.  Importantly, money is only one form of information,

We didn't have school shootings.  We had bomb threats, and we liked it that way.   [image link to nbc.com] I'm not kidding, either.  Several times a year, never on a rainy day that I can

This 15-year old business pitch competition is probably the oldest one in the Triad.  According to WRAL's TechWire. Capital Connects provides education opportunities for investors and connections

This is a project by IARPA (like DARPA but for the intelligence community) where they are attempting to combine crowdsourcing with machine learning. I signed up and took the test, which was in three sections:

"In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered together in the largest event for science advocacy in history.  In 2018, we unite again to hold our elected and appointed officials

I'm helping to organize our local March for Science (in fact later this week I'm going to launch a Steemit fundraising page for that nonpartisan event).  Yesterday's post about voter turnout in young

I grew up with a black and white television set, so I was completely oblivious to that famous switch in The Wizard of Oz between sepia Kansas and the Technicolor dream world.   The yellow brick road,

After this post on the minor moral panic at my kid's school a couple days ago, I noticed this action being planned. A year ago I wrote a column for IGMS about experimental politics, called "Political Science

There's no cute numerical graphic to go with this post, as seems to be traditional on Steemit.  I was not paying attention today, because I was too busy witnessing future shock in action.  [image

This is one of the best essays I've read recently, especially in the wake of yet another mass shooting.  It's based on a lightning talk from one of the Friends of O'Reilly meetings. For all of  us:

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned having re-read Iron John: a Book about Men.  Today, a pair of what Jung would call synchronicities: I happened across this call for submissions on "Speculative

On our way home from a trip to Boston last summer, we stopped in Providence, Rhode Island, the former home of one Howard Philips Lovecraft.  Now that his literary legacy is a largish business, the

I was at a business networking event last night when I met two of the people hosting this podcast.  My wife assumed the title is a pun on "Thank you Jesus," and their focus on yard signs as an advertising

Argument mapping is a way of laying out complex arguments spatially, allowing us to leverage our advanced primate visual systems to help us with logical reasoning.  [image link to Wikipedia] The basic

During the second weekend of my hypnosis course, the weather was a lot nicer.   [image link] A fossilized tick in amber from the Dominican Republic, shown to be carrying spirochete bacteria. Unlike

With rare exceptions, I played essentially no games during my seven years in grad school, except during vacations back in KY or at a convention. I did get into Minesweeper and Warcraft 2 for a few weeks

This post is an exercise in using my own experiences to illustrate a model that I’m working on for a grant application.  The basic question is: How does SF, broadly defined, influence young people in their

The mountains sure are pretty on a cold April morning, especially if you're looking out on them from a comfortably heated room. I spent the first night in a tent listening to the frog (which, in the lower