Side Trails for September 8, 2010

This link collection will be a lot bigger than last week’s…

This link is only for the extreme Lost fans.  It is an attempt, and I think a successful one, to explain most if not all of the mysteries of the island.

Another warning bell from Chuck Colson about the danger of civil religion and the rally at the Lincoln Memorial a little over a week ago…

This link will take you to an index of all the things that have been blamed on global warming. It is certainly exhaustive but by no means complete and the interesting thing about this list is how many things are contradicted by a later entry on the list.

I almost got to take a history of economic thought with this professor but he left UNCG just before I got here.  A short article by him argues that there is a hole in the economics curriculum, that we don’t place economic thought in the context of history and I completely agree.

I love messing with numbers to reveal relationships, otherwise known as statistics, and I love baseball.  What I love even more is when you can combine the two.  A great article by Joe Posnanski reveals some interesting relationships when it comes to the ball and strike counts batters face and the odds of certain things happening, a fascinating read.

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