Submissions by johndcook

Do flu shots increase your risk of getting the flu?

Why US Navy ships are rusty

Collection of NYT headlines about life on Mars

Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel

Prediction markets need dumb money as well as smart money

A one-kilometre Monster Telescope

I Love Calculator

A tour of the equational theories project

A deep dive into corporate surveillance technology

Stuck at the Mall of America for Days on End

Why Dune II Fails

Abraham Lincoln and Confidence Intervals

Car Privacy Is Horrid

AI Generated Propaganda

New Book on Naming Things

Secret Patents

Simple Standard Event Logging

Fields where it matters, fields where you can thrive on BS alone, and in between

Decoding the Artemis I Orion vehicle

Have your computer make a sound every time it sends Google data

Six programming languages I’d like to see

FDA to approve redesigned Covid boosters without requiring data

With all due respect to the experts