Excerpted. [VaccineHesitantFriend]: I completely understand that. We are lucky to be here in the US. And I’m doing my part…
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COVID-19 Tests
Before May 14, 2020, Texas reporting of coronavirus test mixed results from two different kinds of tests: the PCR tests…
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A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis mellifera capensis, by Yagound et al,…
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Remdesivir Hopes
Remdesivir is an experimental antiviral drug made by the company Gilead. Designed to act against the RNA driven RNA polymerase…
Continue ReadingVisualizing NCAA GPA data
On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart : It reports the average core high school…
Continue ReadingVolleyball and Newton
I ignited a fierce debate a few months back by simply asking: “the higher you jump, the more force you…
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Becoming height neutral
The website Beachvolleyballspace covered the recent FIVB Gstaad Major with an article celebrating the winners, the currently top ranked Canadian…
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In an earlier posting on detecting the signs of pseudoscience, I quoted an article which mentions unfalsifiability as a property.…
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In a recent discussion with BJ Leroy of USA Volleyball, I encountered a paper by Bailey et al (2018) published…
Continue ReadingThe Texas Primary Elections: by the numbers
It’s the day after the Texas Primary Elections, which serves to narrow the field for the two major American political…
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