Why are you all acting so *shocked* that Kristi Noem shoots animals dead?

Yes, shooting your pet is disturbing behavior. But I think shooting a bear dead just for the thrill of killing it—and to get a pic for Instagram—is also loathsome.

I rather immodestly nominate as a competitor this excerpt from my book, Who's Counting. It is also about the Monty Hall problem and its variants, including an application to Covid precautions: books.google.com.mx/books?id=G1V-E…

This math test is from 66 years ago. It must have been easy by today's standards, right?

Map of Mathematics.

Enlarge the figure to see all the wonderful areas for exploration and imagination. Which topic might you find most fascinating?

By Dominic Walliman, Dominic Walliman, Source: bit.ly/3TdnwcS, Used with permission.

Off topic, but I really enjoyed your Little Failure.

;-) Dogs have an unfair advantage.

And way before the web as well.

3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2…

And yet some respectable media still run horoscopes and many intelligent people still gratuitously refer to their signs in conversations. To keep from rolling my eyes, I sometimes respond by claiming to be something like a Pieces, Caries, Paleo, or Lobra.

A wise piece by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari: From Gaza to Iran, the Netanyahu gov't is endangering Israel's survival. '... we have become so similar to Samson in so many ways – the hubris, the blindness, the vengeance, the suicide ...' haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Beautiful 2017 profile of Daniel Dennett by Joshua Rothman. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…

A brilliant response by Timothy Snyder to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accusation of Nazis in Ukraine. As a leading scholar on the subject of nationalism, Snyder makes three points:
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Very sad news. A stellar philosopher .... and person.

Just saw Woody Allen's new movie, Coup de Chance. Very enjoyable, very well done with some of his recognizable themes - love and murder, the role of chance, Parisian charm, pretentiousness. Loved it. May be his last film. A shame he can't get funding in this country.

Maybe he suffers from CTE, which was also cooked up by Fauci and the government.

Every universe is fine-tuned for the conditions that obtain within it

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

Happy 317th birthday, Leonhard Euler! Here was the April 15, 2013 Google Doodle. doodles.google/doodle/leonhar…