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I've added some comments in [ ..brackets.. ] to the article excerpt below. More background . WSJ : ‘We are scientists, seeking truth,...

President Stanley asked me this afternoon for my resignation. I do not agree with his decision, as serious issues of academic freedom and fr...

These are letters of support sent on my behalf to the MSU President: presidentstanley@msu.edu Several are deep, detailed scholarly documen...

The Twitter mob has a petition up, with fake signatures including one from Corey Washington, my Manifold co-host and friend of 30 years! ...

I have not responded to these nasty Twitter attacks , but unfortunately they have gotten enough traction that I feel I need to respond now. ...

Steve and Corey talk to Warren Hatch, President and CEO of Good Judgment Inc. Warren explains what makes someone a good forecaster and how...

Corey and Steve interview Leif Wenar, Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and author of Blood Oil. They begin with memories of ...

Re-posting this because of its relevance to the terrible events in Minneapolis. Manifold Episode #11: Joe Cesario on Police Decision Makin...

Note : the part of the conversation I found most interesting -- venture and capital markets aspects of drug discovery, complexity and scal...

I particularly liked this interview with David Silver on AlphaGo and AlphaZero. I suggest starting around ~35m in if you have some familia...

I get that I'm supposed to hate this lady and her boss, but can someone do me a favor by answering the questions she posed? 1) Why d...

An amazing story. I met Assange 's attorney at an event in London last summer... The mysterious death of the Chinese ambassador to...

University of California Will End Use of SAT and ACT in Admissions (NYT) This decision by the UC Regents (most of whom are political appo...

Corey and Steve talk to Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and author of Loserthink. Steve reviews some of Scott's predictions, including...

I haven't followed the latest scientific progress very carefully for the last week or two. It seems that things have slowed down a bi...

Steve and Corey talk to James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center of...

Perhaps the most fundamental question in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is: Why do systems tend to evolve toward thermal equili...

Steve and Corey talk with Robert Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about his philosophy of Natio...

Warning : this post is for specialists. I had reason to look back at the paper below recently, and thought I would write a longer post on ...

Steve and Corey talk with theoretical physicist Raman Sundrum. They discuss the last 30 years in fundamental physics, and look toward the ...

Reader LondonYoung points to this CDC data set . Table 2 is reproduced below. If we assume that CV-19 has infected a few percent of the to...