Live at the Witch Trials

I thought it would be cool to make a map of the US counties by how much wheat they grew. I took the code from this article and from the Vis...

I am reading Visualize This by Yau at the moment. It is full of really pretty visualization ideas and examples. One it has is creatin...

When money's tight and hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt - A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MA...

In the first post I claimed that like Tay-Sachs in Israel Cystic Fibrosis could be drastically reduced with some relatively inexpensive gen...

I often hear it asked what the gluten content of various beers are. Particularly in relation to celiacs who want to avoid gluten. This post ...

In my last post Cystic Fibrosis Screening I described how Tay-Sachs had been nearly eradicated in Israel and America and did a rough calcul...

Approximately 1 in 25 Ashkenazi Jews are carriers of Tay-Sachs disorder which is a really nasty genetic disorder that kills children who h...

I found out recently that Santa is buried in Ireland. No really he is and you can go visit his grave. Though a bonus, I didn't go to avo...

Finding all the ways the electoral college votes from each state can be added up to give both candidates 269 votes turns out to be really ha...

Political pundits talk about the possibility of winning the Presidential election with less votes than your opponent. Assuming only two can...

Matthew Yglesias in the slate calculates what he thinks is the smallest area of land a candidate could win and still win this presidential ...

This post is not about the why. The podcast "Inscribe the poem on yourself" and the later one "Trying to Impress Literary Ty...

Tim Ferriss recommends one of my favorite books as a great way to learn languages (36:43 into his long now talk audio here) . Tim Ferriss wr...

Memory is about imagination. Try as vividly as possible to imagine this. Sitting on your bed is a giant hen. She is chirping around scratchi...

Byzantine is a descriptive adjective for a very complicated bureaucracy Byzantine: Highly complicated ; intricate and involved: a bill to s...

GOVERNMENT health experts have ruled out banning fizzy drink vending machines in schools because they are making too much money. Instead t...

We detail the events that marked a new low in Ireland’s relationship with drink, drugs and casual violence Were the events at the Phoenix...

What is the best way to pick a team? As kids we would always strictly alternate between teams so team 1 had first team 2 the second pick and...

Maternity hospitals put these security bracelets on your baby. The thing is because the baby loses so much weight and generally changes so m...