Failing again. Failing better.
I started reading Robert Jordan’s Eye of the World series in the seventh grade, way back in 1992 (that will make me sound really young or really old to most readers, I’m sure). I’ll admit it: it didn’t hook me right away. I actually put it down, and then a few months later, I picked…
As reported in Wired, scientists at the University of Hong Kong collected data on “14 variables, such as human height, the price of gold, tree ring width, and temperature from pre-industrial Europe between the years 1500 and 1800” to determine whether periods of climate change had a causal relationship with conflict. After performing a Granger…