Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Previously, I transcribed about 1,600 Oregon Covid-19 death records by hand and discovered the public facing presentation of deaths was misleading – it had time shifted past deaths into the…
Does this mean the conspiracy theorists were correct? 2020 was a trial run? Geesh. Sir Lindsay Hoyle told a gathering of counterparts from some of the world’s most powerful countries…
If we assume all measures work, then we prove all measures work. And of course, we ignore the time dimension: A mask mandate, combined with complementary public health measures, could…
This part of the post was written on September 4th, but not published until December 30. On September 4th, the UW IHME disease modeling team projected 410,000 deaths in the…
He was awesome: Chuck Yeager, the historic test pilot portrayed in the movie “The Right Stuff,” is dead at the age of 97, according to a tweet posted on his…
Some of the factors that shape the frequency and severity of wildfire in California, like drought, record high temperatures and strong winds are beyond our control and in many cases,…
Cool stuff: Plate tectonics vs. erosion—what sets the height of a mountain range? | Ars Technica And the answer is: mostly plate tectonics, speed of movement, nature of the materials…