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On Infant Mortality and the developing world
In earlier posts we examined some of the correlations between Infant Mortality and other variables. The most interesting discovery was...
Feb 10, 2019

On Infant Mortality in the context of Life Expectancy and Adolescent Fertility
Worldwide Infant Mortality generally follows socio-economic expectations given current levels of economic development. More developed...
Feb 9, 2019

On Infant Mortality - Global Progress against a personal tragedy
Starting in 1994 there were 20 countries with Infant Mortality rates less than 5 per thousand births. In 2016 there were 58 countries...
Feb 7, 2019

On Iraq - Mortality, Correlation and Life Expectancy
Iraq is one of the few countries in the world where Infant Mortality is poorly correlated to the Life Expectancy. The data indicates that...
Jan 16, 2019

On Infant Mortality
Infant Mortality statistics. Sounds boring. Something economists or public health specialists would work on during a weekday. I have...
Jan 6, 2019

On The Christmas Miracle
All religions operate at two levels. This is what I've been told. In our modern era the full knowledge of the Bible is available to all....
Dec 24, 2018

The stars are bright and they shine all night
Have you ever felt that something was right because others felt it so? There are places and ideas that are firmly rooted by centuries of...
Oct 26, 2018


What is the opposite of Virtue Signaling?
Faith Goldy was a "journalist" from Rebel Media (Ezra Levant's Fake News Promotion Company - Fox News for Canada) who was fired for...
Oct 15, 2018


What you don't understand about Trump (but they do)
The people support Trump because he offers them a deal. In exchange for impunity, he will resolve the issues that burden their world. ...
Oct 6, 2018

What might Trump's climate policy look like in his second term?
As climate change remains a primarily partisan issue our imagination remains closed to what a response to climate change will look like...
Aug 16, 2018


An experiment with words
Great writers wrote the words. Excel wrote the sentences. I edited the work.
Jul 18, 2018

Lessons of history on immigration
When I was in High School I found an abridged copy of The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon The story...
Jun 23, 2018

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
German forces intended to begin the operation to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto on April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover. When SS and police...
Mar 30, 2018

Housing Starts
Analysis of Housing Starts versus various other economic indicators in the US and Canada.
Mar 29, 2018

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