Tag: Hall

The newest crop of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was just released, and as always there are some serious head-scratchers among them. I love Willie Nelson, but is he really what anyone would consider rock and roll? But it’s not artists like Willie getting in that bothers me; ...

Sometimes things are found right where you would never expect, and there’s a structure in Boston, Massachusetts, that many Bostonians didn’t even know existed. In the middle of the city, there is a 120-year-old abandoned concert hall known as Steinert Hall that is 40 feet underground, bu...

A world-renowned theater celebrated for hosting everyone and everything from Prince to the WNBA to Frank Sinatra’s official debut of New York, New York [1], Radio City Music Hall also offers patrons a wonderful collection of curated art. Art which can ea...

What happens when you mix shepherds, wolves, giants, rock operas, Uriah Heep and Thin Lizzy? Maybe you were under the assumption that those things could never come together and create something. Let yourself be introduced to SHAMUS, a Toronto-based band fronted by Shamus Currie, keyboardist and voca...

Rankings aside, Seton Hall is one of the best law schools in the country, plain and simple. Whether a law school is excellent or poor is largely based on two important and defining metrics: employment outcomes and bar passage rates. (1) Bar Passage Rates. Seton Hall Law School had an astonishi...

First, the proposed Charter Amendment that would have given the Mayor the ability to veto parking or fare increases was withdrawn by the sponsor, Supervisor Safai, after significant opposition, including from SFTR. This is a significant victory, but it appears to have come with a short-term cos...

The story of CNN’s recent town hall with Donald Trump’s adoring audience wasn’t Trump. It was his audience. Watching the small crowd of 250 or so was as close as anyone without a microscope will ever get to watching cancer cells grow and develop in real time. We often hear the a...

Introduction: The Monty Hall Problem, named after the host of the popular television game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” has baffled and intrigued mathematicians, statisticians, and puzzle enthusiasts alike for decades. Originating from a simple game show scenario, this probability p...

The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser rooted in probability theory and it has perplexed / intrigued enthusiasts since its inception. Named after the host of the television game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” Monty Hall, this problem illustrates a counterintuitive aspect of probabilit...

At first glance, the answer seems to be simple. There are two unopened doors, with a goat behind one and a car behind the other. The chance that your door has the car is 0.5, and the chance that the other, unopened door has the car is also 0.5, right? It doesn’t matter whether you switch ...

Introduction: The Monty Hall Problem, named after the host of the popular television game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” has baffled and intrigued mathematicians, statisticians, and puzzle enthusiasts alike for decades. Originating from a simple game show scenario, this probability p...