I realize this is mostly crazy on my part, but honestly, I really wish real estate people would stop using the plus-minus sign ( ±) in thi...

A couple of weeks ago, as I write this, Dharun Ravi was found guilty of invasion of privacy and a host of other charges in a sequence of in...

Another meandering post.  You've been warned. I'm re-reading Isaac Asimov's informal autobiography, I. Asimov (a play on hi...

Here's a counter-sliding game I came up with a while back, while visiting my parents. My parents have these small flags of various cou...

I'm sure this is an old puzzle somewhere in the world, but it came upon us a few years ago here at work in connection with driving to lu...

This past weekend's Super Bowl XLVI (that's forty-six) provided yet another confluence of probability, tactics, and sports.  That...

I've previously written about the importance of context in statistical analysis, though only as a prelude to saying something about gam...