Applied Mathematics: Pinch-O-Meter

by Foster Kamer

Numbers, charts, and graphs are all around us. What do they mean? What connections can we make from them? Who will help us understand the things they say? Our resident statistician, that’s who! He will attempt to explain the…

Game Misconduct: Celtics and Bulls, Pacquiao v. Hatton and Mind That Bird at the Derby

Our straight man on sports discusses the Celtics and Bulls, the terrible boxing match of Pacquiao v. Hatton and the triumph of Mind That Bird at the Kentucky Derby.

Flicked Off: Wolverine Reconsidered

by Meghan Keane

Enough with all of the scathing commentary and general derision aimed toward “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” Yes, Gavin Hood seems to have further buried the X-Men franchise beneath the rubble Brett Ratner created with “X-Men…

Sotheby’s Spreads Out Its Diamonds For The Masses

Sotheby’s started its own line of diamond jewelry three and a half years ago and for the first three years it performed tremendously. Much less so now! It is a partnership between the auction house and Steinmetz Diamond Group, which is DeBeers’…

Everything You Thought About Evolution Is Apparently Wrong Except Not Really

In today’s New Yorker, Adam Gopnik, still somehow only 52 years old, explains that there are new theories regarding evolution.

New York Post’s Faces Of Death

“You know,” Marge Simpson once famously declared, “Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I…

How Portfolio Could Have Survived

I mean, really, it wouldn’t have been very different from what Portfolio would have put out anyway…

Can There Be Wage Growth Erosion If Wages Barely Grew?

It’s hard to pick a good headline when you run a newspaper! For instance, the Washington Post this weekend originally went with “Wage Growth Is Eroding As Firms Rush To Slim Down” for a story about trombonists being forced out of work…

Possible Supreme Court Hispanic Lady Mouthy, Dumb

Hopefully Barack Obama will move quickly to appoint a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, if only to put a halt to all the whining and carping and speculating and handicapping that’s going on regarding the next nominee…

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