Author: smith

The Flipping Point –Are we there yet?

Mommmm….are we there yet? “There” being the Flipping Point, the point at which the previously loyal rats debark en masse. The graphs below were an attempt to try out a hypothesis about the Flipping Point, using...

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The Ancient Order of Crones

In an earlier diary kansas suggested that the reaction to the pie fight might have been in part conditioned by age, with older participants, particularly the older women, ultimately unwilling to indulge the shenanigans of the...

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The Smurfette Factor

I assume this audience is old enough to remember the Smurfs – little blue humanoids who at one time inhabited Saturday morning teevee? Like the Seven Dwarfs, the Smurfs had a simplified version of individuality such that...

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