Al Bartlett and the Essential Exponential

Al Bartlett in January 2005. Photo by Marty Caivano/Daily Camera Al Bartlett, Boulder physics professor emeritus who dedicated his post-retirement career to preserving Boulder and trying to get people not as smart as him (which was pretty much everybody) to understand the exponential function and its environmental and social impacts, died over the weekend. Brittany Anas,…

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Soccer keeps you fat

I'm a fan of MedPage today, but these folks are seriously under the copy-cranking gun and often publish summaries of studies absent of perspective. Today's story, "After-School Soccer Little Help in Obesity Battle" is another example. These kids and Michelle Obama are all wasting their time, MedPage Today reports. The story reports a JAMA Pediatrics study. The…

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