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The Frequency of Extremes
This column was published January 25, 2025 in the Manhattan Mercury . Nature takes its course in Kansas. Winter snow provides needed...

Mike Matson
Jan 253 min read


Smartest Guy in the Room
So, it turns out that long held, deeply ingrained thoughts and opinions can be wrong. Since the late ‘70s, I have harbored this belief...

Mike Matson
Dec 29, 20243 min read


Half-Assing the Ice Cubes
My wife and I didn’t purposefully set out to manage our reputations so the end result would be a critical mass of reasonable people left...

Mike Matson
Dec 24, 20242 min read
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