Paid a visit to the Penn encampment. Here’s how it went.

S5E24 Zombie Wheel of Distributions
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This week we somehow tie together pretending to be sick, game shows, and zombies to explore probability distributions, starting with Bernoulli and biting our way through the binomial, z, t, chi-square, F, and beyond.

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Tonight we mark Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Let us affirm that 'never again' is not just a hope but a reality we actively work towards. #YomHashoah #NeverAgain

🖖 Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastical alien life-forms, and engage in dramatic adventures in a detailed and immersive Galaxy with Star Trek Adventures Second Edition! 🖖
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#StarTrek #StarTrek Adventures #LLAP

On the latest Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast, Shi En Kim, PhD and Michael Wong unpack the two most recent episodes of #StarTrekDiscovery , 'Face the Strange' and 'Mirrors' ⏳🕷🎙🖖 soundcloud.com/strange-new-wo…

This looks like a really interesting book!

The incentives in science don’t always encourage open-mindedness—but being wrong might just be the key to getting it right.

🎧 Listen to Uncertain with Christie Aschwanden at 🔗 trib.al/TzWVqEO

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For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of 'Go back to Africa.'

Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the eye with a flagpole.

Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that they

No student should live in fear on campus. The antisemitism and hate toward Jews, including threats of violence, that we are witnessing is unconscionable. Colleges and universities, along with their leadership, must do better.

Hatred of Jews isn’t a Jewish problem…

What a remarkable day.
#Eclipse2024 #Science #Gratitude

Highly recommended, both of them.

A lesson about the secret of Jewish survival-

“Teach your tongue to say ‘I don’t know’.” Talmud

The single most important response to antisemitism is Jewish education. We did not survive because we were hated; we survived because we were passionate about our tradition and our destiny.

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The 2024-2025 FAFSA has been an abject failure. Instead of apologizing to families and providing guidance to colleges and universities, it continues to cite rollout issues and celebrate its own belated steps.

Let's remember the beauty of science for the sake of discovery.
Scientific American NaomiOreskes
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