The bond between a child and their smartphone is like an umbilical cord. Now, a…
Leslie HaddonAugust 8, 2014
The online technology revolution has set proverbial amongst the pigeons that make up the old…
Oz FlanaganJanuary 30, 2014
A couple years ago I wrote about an experiment where researchers had hired an actor…
Mikhail SimkinOctober 1, 2013
In my first article, A short overview of the Phillips Curve, I outlined the complicated…
Michael MernaghSeptember 19, 2013
Though the word correlation means usually how two quantities vary together, perhaps it may be…
Priyantha WijayatungaSeptember 9, 2013
Parliament has just voted not to join in a war. MPs were recalled from their…
Julian ChampkinAugust 30, 2013
'To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong' -…
Kevin DavenportAugust 27, 2013
Official UK migration figures have been denounced. They are "little better than a best guess",…
Julian ChampkinJuly 29, 2013
The street protests going on in Egypt this month have been claimed as the biggest…
Julian ChampkinJuly 17, 2013
A new shock horror health story. ‘Taking health supplements with omega-3 fatty acids can increase…
Julian ChampkinJuly 15, 2013
In a recent article I reported the results of the internet-test, where the takers had…
Mikhail SimkinJune 24, 2013
Ars Conjectandi is not a book that non-statisticians will have heard of, nor one that…
Julian ChampkinJune 10, 2013
Recently I discussed my article1 which reported the results of the test where the takers…
Mikhail SimkinMay 7, 2013
‘Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful’. That quotation comes from George Box,…
Julian ChampkinApril 4, 2013
Kenya has been having elections. The results were announced on Saturday. Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's richest…
Julian ChampkinMarch 11, 2013
Rape is probably the most under-reported crime that there is, for all sorts of understandable…
Julian ChampkinFebruary 28, 2013
The chance of large power cuts – those that hit more than a million homes…
Julian ChampkinFebruary 21, 2013
I read and watched with interest the Beveridge Lecture given by Professor Danny Dorling at…
Michael MernaghFebruary 20, 2013
Lance Armstrong has confessed to Oprah Winfrey that all seven of his Tour de France…
Julian ChampkinJanuary 18, 2013
