Thanks to Allie, I've found a bunch of new ways to waste time, all thanks to Sporcle.
Can you remember all 20 of the standard amino acids? (yup. Got all 20. Cheating, though, that they give you the 3-letter and 1-letter abbreviations. Makes it too easy... though spelling them right is hard!)
How about the entire periodic table? (67. Eh.)
The Geological Timescale? (I'm sorry Prof. Brooks! I totally failed this one... I am not worthy...)
Or maybe, if you're not as scientifically inclined, you want to try The 32 NFL teams or the U.S. Presidents. Does it say something bad about me that I can name all 32 NFL teams and not even 1/2 of the US presidents?
Anyhow, they got a lot of them, and they're all wonderful, time-wasting fun.
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Despite having written about it before, I still get a lot of questions about William Dembski's "No Free Lunch"
(NFL) theorems. One message recently contained the question in a particularly interesting form, so I thought I'd take
the opportunity to answer it with a post.
This past weekend, I ended up hearing sports-radio pinheads holding forth proudly about their ignorance of college basketball.
I watched part of the NFL Hall of Fame induction ceremony today and was particularly interested in the induction of Warren Moon. Moon is the first black quarterback in the modern era to be inducted into the hall of fame, but he surely won't be the last.
by Michael Lax, MD, MPH