Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Stuff below the fold

China go kaboom: Instapundit discusses, with links.
It's the corruption of course.

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What happened to the Uighar who stumbled into a Taliban training camp and got caught up in the war on terror and sent to Gitmo?
One of them is now a Pizza cook in Albania...

using only Halal ingredients of course. Heh. Why not? Kosher pizza parlors are well known in the US....

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You probably know about the problem of grade inflation in universities, but now there is a question of probability inflation too...
The BPS Research Digest explains the likely causes:
The pattern of results could be indicative of dubious research practices, in which researchers nudge their results towards significance, for example by excluding troublesome outliers or adding new participants. Or it could reflect a selective publication bias in the discipline – an obsession with reporting results that have the magic stamp of statistical significance. Most likely it reflects a combination of both these influences.
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What does a 17 foot long Bumese python eat? Anything she wants...
Researchers have found that snakes will eat just about everything that walks, crawls or flies in the Everglades, from egrets to alligators. A study published early this year linked the boom of pythons in the Everglades to a crash in populations of many bite-sized mammals like raccoons, opossums and marsh rabbits.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/13/2950397/monster-python-caught-in-the-florida.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
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headup DaveBarry

who also posts on this terrible crime:

Serial 'picnic table stacker' on the loose in Spokane park
More than 35 stacked picnic tables were discovered Friday morning in Manito Park.
This is the fourth time in recent weeks authorities have dealt with this kind of problem...
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