Hi Readers! We’ll return to our regularly scheduled rants — and deep thoughts — in the next post. But first, I just had to reprint this lovely review of Free-Range Kids that ran on Britain’s Spiked sedzhdassr Online, a news and commentary site that is similar to America’s Slate. It’s by Nancy McDermott, a mom […]
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Great, Pithy Quote About How We Get the Numbers Wrong
May 5, 2009
Granted, this quote is about a competely different topic — one I don’t even want to discuss here:Â swine flu. BUT this observation by Professor Dirk Brockmann, who models epidemics, holds so true for so MANYÂ fears, I just had to to shout it out. Here he is, as quoted in today’s New ztandfznzn York […]