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...weren’t for his parents, Mr. Wheeler’s pathological behavior wouldn’t have stopped,” Verner said...
Even though red-tailed hawks are common to North America, Hutchison’s pursuit of the birds has been challenging, due to lighting conditions and the hawks’ own behavior. In one of her earlier posts, she noted, “As they grow, the juvenile red-tails become more elusive.” Another difficulty for Hutchison has been the mockingbirds, who imitate hawk sounds, and the surrounding traffic, which obscures the hawks’ screams. Hutchison has also written that watching hawks can be time-consuming: one hawk she observed stayed perched...
Models, by design, are simplifications with clearly false assumptions. But the success of models lies in their ability to rationalize and often rightly predict the behavior of more complex real systems. Confused applications of the uncertainty principle notwithstanding, the author’s disdain for the “data-heavy, model-driven graduate student” is unjustified. Perhaps in his next piece, Mr. Barbieri can suggest an alternative to restrictive modeling in understanding and predicting phenomena...
...Although the baseball event in particular may have yielded some very popular YouTube videos, the police officers involved should not have used such excessive force. In both cases, the response was far harsher than the activity warranted, and Tasers are not an appropriate way to deter fans from illegal behavior...
Some have argued that the use of the Taser was justified in the Phillies case because it will deter other fans from engaging in similar behavior. However, just one day after the baseball incident, another Phillies fan ran onto the field, suggesting that the Tasing may have had the opposite effect. In fact, the popularity of the footage from the Phillies incident on YouTube—where the user comments largely poke fun at the incident—is somewhat troubling, since it suggests that the public does not take Tasers as seriously as it should...