Statistician Nate Silver normally wastes his time writing about politics. But he&amp;#8217;s finally turned his attention to something truly worthwhile: Handicapping the Oscar nominees. &amp;#8220;By far the best predictors are the winners of other major awards, like the Golden Globes,&amp;#8221; Silver wrote on his New York Times blog. Silver&amp;#8217;s other three rules are slightly less [...]