Topic: Joe Lauria

Want to Know if You Have Swine Flu? You May Have to Wait.

With regular tallying of new cases of A/H1N1 swine flu - as of yesterday it had sickened 898 people around the world - you might think it's pretty easy to find out if whatever you've come down with really is that ...

How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts?

A gentleman named J.D. Eggleston recently wrote to us with a rather interesting report, a nice piece of D.I.Y. Freakonomics concerning the accuracy of local T.V. weather forecasts. Our family members are big T.V. watchers, and our ...