Opinion

Today I taught about Bay’s Theorem and Bayesian Statistics in my Advanced Statistics class. As I was lecturing, I talked...

The Girl is four, with big innocent eyes and a smile that could melt the Grinch. She also has juuust...

While we're on the subject of visual presentation of information, I just want to point out that part of the...

A longish essay I wrote last year has appeared in the twentieth-anniversary issue of the terrific literary journal War, Literature...

Rob Weir offers advice on how to prepare a syllabus.

Carolyn F. Segal considers why so many pundits predict the demise of so many things.

Last week I responded to one of those time-wasting Facebook memes that asked me to describe my life using only...

Several alert readers sent me links to this story in the New York Times. The headline -- “In Tough Times...