People are beating their heads and chests in support of this or that theory as to whether bicycle helmets do good or harm or both or neither. Here are two current items in the debate. The truck ran over his head. “I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head. […]
About: Stephen Drew
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Round and round (attachments)
Investigator Raluca Musaloiu-E. writes: Here is a paper published in the 3rd Conference on Email and Anti-Spam CEAS 2006 July 27-28, 2006, Mountain View, California: “Sorry, I Forgot the Attachment: Email Attachment Prediction” by Mark Dredze, John Blitzer and Fernando Pereira from the Computer and Information Sciences Department at University of Pennsylvania. I cite from […]
Hungarians’ high moral standards
Bodo writes that the Hungarian people had such a high moral standard that there was no need to mention the possibility that some “unnatural” crimes existed. So writes an anonymous bookseller at the firm Helen R. Kahn & Associates, in their Catalog 69, about the book Jurisprudentia Criminalis Secundum Praxim & Constitutiones Hungaricas in Partes […]
Lunar / birth independence
Our analysis is, at least to our knowledge, the one with the largest data set (in terms of completed lunar cycles) to date for the problem under investigation. Using methods of spectral analysis we found overwhelming evidence for the hypothesis that there is no association of the lunar cycle and the number of births. So […]