This week the UN is holding it’s 17th annual climate change conference, COP 17, in Durban, South Africa with the US not in attendance (with the possible exception of famous climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe R-OK who may address the conference by video). Last year I posted one of my all time most popularContinue reading “What Shaq can teach us about Climate Change”
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Say it ain’t so JoePa!
What a shock last night after coming home and hearing that the man who had personified Penn State football since before I was born had been fired after assuming that they would let him finish his last season. While there are many things to be learned from this and the Catholic Church sex abuse scandalContinue reading “Say it ain’t so JoePa!”
Lance Armstrong’s Doping Claim: A Probabilistic Calculation
This Sunday CBS’ 60 Minutes did an expose on 7 time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong where his former teammate and close friend Tyler Hamilton accuse him on camera (and the piece also says that teammate George Hincapie testified this under oath secretly to a grand jury) of using the performance enhancing drug erythropoietinContinue reading “Lance Armstrong’s Doping Claim: A Probabilistic Calculation”