Pennsylvania's last Governor dragged his feet on expanding medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The new governor has reversed himself but a lot of other governors haven't.
The 100th anniversary of that cursed ships sinking made me think of other disasters that have been forgotten.
The earliest post on this list was on a discussion of how morality can be evaluated like a mathematical equation.
Pope Francis became the 266th successor of St. Peter after Benedict XVI abdicated. Here is a look at the Papacy.
Last year my friend from Hartford died from brain cancer. A site was set up for his family to cover medical expenses. I talked about how they shouldn't have to be begging for money for this purpose. You can still donate to their paypal account here.
An old classmate of mine from Hartford had an article in the Huffington post on how mindfulness can reduce stress. I discussed her study here.
A response to the terrible shootings that occurred about the same time as the Newtown Shootings.
As the title of this post says, a look at how Olympic medal counts reflect a nations power.
A response to a question I asked about the effect of Scandinavian social programs on marriage.
How do uninsured rates relate to health outcomes for these three outlier states?
A look at methods of displaying descriptive statistics in geographic form.
The American Psychiatric Assn caused controversy when they decided to remove Asperger's Syndrome from the DSM-V and place it on the Autism spectrum
A look at how World Wars I & II relate to the current troubles in the Middle East.
In a follow up to the post on the concentration of hate groups (seen further down on this list), I looked at the correlation between the concentration of hate groups in each state and their health outcomes.
In this post I argue that bullying in schools is merely a reflection of ills in the larger society.
When Lance Armstrong was still claiming innocence of blood doping I thought I would apply probability theory to his claim. This is the post with the longest average time per view.
A look at local poverty rates in my home state of Pennsylvania.
Warner Brothers tried to modernize the Looney Tunes characters. I thought it had promise but it didn't last.
We are used to thrilling Super Bowls today but there was a time when the game rarely lived up to the hype.
In 2009, three policemen were killed by a right wing extremist about a mile from where I live. I gave a profile of the neighborhood where it happened.
Hitler and Napoleon are often compared. I argue that there is also considerable overlap between those two and Josef Stalin.
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With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War these past 4 years I thought it would be helpful looking at in with similar conflicts in Italy, Germany and Japan which would have repercussions for later conflicts..
A look at the concentration of hate groups in the US (adjusting for population).
The second most popular post provides a sports metaphor (Barry Sanders' running statistics) for explaining global warming/climate change to denier of this science who also is a sports junkie (ie. Rush Limbaugh, James Inhofe, etc).
Thanks to this post being linked to on the BBC programme (British Spelling) web page for The Joy of Stats, this page has received over 3,000 hits (7% of total traffic). It covers the correlation between life expectancy and income.
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