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Posts Tagged “science”
“Statistical Fluke” or X-File?
by js on November 26, 2003
This could be the basis for an interesting story: In 1994, no eight-year-old girls died in Sweden. Not from poisoning or bone cancer; not from meningitis or car accidents: none. In 1994 there were 112,521 eight-year-old girls, and the following (…)
Blue by Any Other Name
by js on July 29, 2003
I was reading a short story today and came across the word cobalt. I realized I didn’t know much about it, other than my mother used to collect cobalt blue glass; I have a few pieces from her collection on (…)
The Struggle for Meaning
by js on July 7, 2003
I came across a newspaper article that while somewhat mistitled (“How language stunts creativity”) was interesting. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) gradually eats away at a person’s ability to function. But sometimes, before there is a complete loss of function, some people (…)