Word: weathers
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...gets stranger still when you look at the data upon which this argument is based. The as yet unpublished Cornell University study, which will be presented Friday at a health economics conference in Cambridge, Mass., is constructed from an analysis of reported autism cases, cable TV subscription data and weather reports. Yes, weather reports. And yet, it all makes some kind of sense in the realm of statistics. And it makes sense to author Gregg Easterbrook, who stirred the blogosphere this week with an article about the study on Slate, provocatively (and perhaps irresponsibly) titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism...
...period when symptoms of autism are typically identified. They turned instead to what most scientists would consider wildly indirect measures: cable subscription data (reasoning that as more houses were wired for cable, more young kids were watching) and rainfall patterns (other research has correlated TV viewing with rainy weather...
...rules can be broken.Since the gods can greatly influence a race, it is extremely important for the LP to keep them happy.“You have to appease the river gods,” Benkreira says. “When they’re happy, we have good weather, good rowing conditions.”The best way to please these deep-sea deities, as any good pagan knows, is human sacrifice. Thus, when a mischievous or simply uninformed rower disrespects the code, the LP holds full license to toss the offender into the Charles River, temporarily assuaging...
...Weather Report were the most talented practitioners of fusion, a style often derided primarily because it shades into “smooth jazz,” widely acknowledged as the most soulless genre in the history of music. Unfortunately, many of the tracks on this set veer uncomfortably close to the F-word, such as “Cannon Ball” and their oft-copied version of “Birdland...
...compilation ends after an exhausting 3.7 hours, by which time you will have been beaten over the head with the genius of the arrangements many times over. Despite their historical and technical brilliance, the band remains defined by its era. Weather Report ushered in a wholly original sound, mastered the genre in fifteen years, and left little else to be done—they came, they fused, they conquered...