Articles tagged "statistics"

How Obama targeted his voters.

At this point, ecologist pretty much have the predator-prey cycle figured out: As a rabbit population grows, a coyote population will follow, thanks to all the new, tasty rabbits. But once the coyotes are numerous enough to eat a _lot_ of rabbits, th…

How hard did that headline blow your mind? Imagine: music really is crappier now; you're not just turning more snobby. It's louder, not just because you're playing it louder because technology is making it much easier and cheaper to give yourself tin…

Baltimore doesn’t get enough credit as a green city, speaking as someone that lives here and frequently looks for good reasons to continue living here. We’re ringed by big parks full of swimming holes and secret places, are cut by several wooded rive…

In 1997 I moved from Detroit to Colorado's Front Range. The Front Range isn't rural by any means -- constituting Denver, Fort Collins, Boulder, Colorado Springs, and a great many lesser places -- basically making up a big vertical smear of mile-high