Articles tagged with "correlation"

Crypto Mining bad, Data Mining worse

1 May 2023

Aleh Tsyvinski is a professor of economics at Yale who has been researching Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies over the last few years, in a bid to understand where the currencies sit within an economy, and figure out how to use them to make money.

The US is losing the war on ignorance

15 April 2018

A recent poll in the US showed an alarming amount of disbelief about whether our world is round. The survey of 8,000 Americans showed that whereas the vast majority of over 55s are happy accepting that we live on a round planet, like all the other planets we see, only two thirds of eighteen to twenty four year olds are sure. The others either don't know either way, are not totally sure or believe in a flat earth.

Glyphosate: The New Bogeyman

1 February 2015

Dr. Steven Novella breaks down the latest environmental factor that apparently causes autism.