Barry Caplan This is sickening on so many levels. http://www.tehachapinews.com/content/family-asks-privacy/31804 and here:…http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x47915091/Police-school-investigating-bullying-after-attempted-suicide None of the articles mention the reason why the young man was being bullied. Even teh family seems shamed about teir own son who brought this upon himself, and worse, upon them. I hope that there is a move afoot to see all [...]

A facebook discussion has broken out regarding this article: Most Overweight Nations: OECD Report (PHOTOS) I thought I’d share a somewhat editied selection of my posts and others. I wrote: The American food industry is so productive and efficient both that it produced far more calories per capita than we should be eating. But we [...]

Statistics take “millions of dollars” and “years to analyze” says Library staff in begging off the task I just attended an interesting local board meeting where every local problem, and they are legion, was touched upon or hinted at in an indirect manner. How the Library Board came to be the nexus of that, I [...]

Heh, this being my birthday and having worked with some top astronomers in the past, I can tell you how they explained it: The equinox is when the earth’s equator crosses the ecliptic plane (which is the plane that the earth makes around the sun as it orbits). In (probably only a little) simpler language, [...]

On the Facebook page of my friend Stuart Gaffney, who was one of the plaintiffs of California’s In Re: Marriage Cases, a European friend asked for some guidance understanding Executive, Legislative, and Executive branches of our Government and how they relate to the case. She was also interested in what the differences were between State [...]