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I haven’t seen a muskrat since Spring – I thought that the low water last Winter had wiped them out. But the other evening, I…
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Itching Feet and Recovey
My right foot went through two days of itching. The last time I felt itchy feet was 2009 – before the heavy metals of chemotherapy knocked out my nerves. I think this is the story that Rick Holm wanted…
Stolen Joke
I ran across this tale on Ace of Spades – it was labeled The Saturday Night Joke, and I suspect Ace is worth checking every Saturday night: It’s an unusual time we’re living in. I took down my Rebel flag (which you can’t buy on EBAY anymore) and peeled the NRA sticker off my rear window. I disconnected my home alarm system and quit the candy-ass Neighborhood Watch. I bought two Pakistani flags and put one at each corner of the front yard. Then I purchased the black flag of ISIS (which you CAN buy on EBAY) and ran it…
I Believe in Scientific Method
I note the frequent comments of “believe in the science” or “the scientific facts.” The really great ones show validity with “most scientists believe . . .” as if consensus had an influence on causality. For much of my life I’ve made a living based around science in it’s several forms- sometimes research, sometimes applications, sometimes looking to support or falsify conclusions. Scientific method is the basis – after we have followed the method, causality is inferred, not proven. All conclusions are tentative and subject to further questions and research. Scientific method is simple. Step one is making an observation. …
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin
Marksmanship and Murder
Jeff Asher, at FiveThirtyEight.com, has done some analysis on shootings and fatalities by city. The article’s title is “Why Are Shootings Deadlier In Some Cities Than Others?” and he subtitles it, “We need better data to find out.” That may be the case – but I have a bit of shooting experience, as well as…
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Covid and Obesity
I ran across an article with a bit more information on covid and its relationship with obesity. Now the Body Mass Index isn’t a perfect tool, designed for medical purposes. Quetelet developed the formula back in 1830 – a time when fractional powers weren’t readily in use, and he wasn’t a medical sort, more an early stats guy and sociology type. The formula’s weakness is that it calculates things where short people seem slimmer and tall folks seem fatter. It’s a problem. Still, you can measure with a broken tape measure, and still use the data ,so the problem isn’t…
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