After a three-week trip to China, Ben Casnocha wrote a long post about it. His main point I very much agree with:Flush toilets and clean water...

I’ve complained many times on this blog about scientists who engage in black-and-white thinking. Here is an example of such thinking outside...

Emily Nussbaum, the brains behind New York ’s The Approval Matrix, which I read religiously, blogs about television here.Other magazine...

After the striking correlation I described earlier — I ate lot more animal fat than usual and slept longer and had more energy the next day...

In Exploratory Data Analysis, John Tukey tells about visiting a high-school chemistry class. Each student in the class had done an experiment to...