Tuesday, August 22, 2017

The Republicans' 3 x 3 existential threat

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I've argued previously that Donald Trump presents and existential threat to the Republican Party. I know this can sound overheated and ...
Monday, August 21, 2017

That's not to say that sleeping around can't be a plus

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Over the past few years I have gotten in the habit of making a quick (or, to be honest, often not-so-quick) visit to Wikipedia when I read s...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Employer sponsored Health Insurance

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This is Joseph Via Mike the Mad Biologist was this gem : Even people who do not switch jobs are vulnerable to losing their health insura...

Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Give me three minutes of your time.

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Just hit play [Assuming you can read this in under twelve seconds.]
Thursday, August 17, 2017

War on science (outsourced)

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This is scary : Any resident in Florida can now challenge what kids learn in public schools, thanks to a new law that science education a...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Sometimes threads collide and you don't even know it

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Over the past few years I written quite a bit about Taylorism, that early and largely discredited school of scientific management that has m...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

The GOP needs the crazies more than the crazies need the GOP.

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The following is not really a voting paradox, but it is kind of in the neighborhood. You have three stockholders for a company. A holds 48% ...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Yes, I am planning on making this another food stamps post

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Admittedly, the cases described here are extreme, but they do remind us of the cost of early childhood malnutrition can be devastating. F...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Some days you just need some Rube Goldberg

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I know we've done some of these before, but these days it can be an enormous relief to see absurdity that's intentional. For those...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

The Significance of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"

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For what seems like decades, I have been collecting notes for an essay on how the huge technological advances of the late 19th/early 20th Ce...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

On the bright side, he's probably not smart enough to be a Russian agent

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The fringe is a strange beast. Almost by definition, it consist of splinters, belief systems that are highly diverse and often mutually excl...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Charter school movement reaches the every faction for itself phase

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Jennifer Berkshire   points us to this article from Chalkbeat: Has the charter school movement gone awry? A new book says yes, and it’s ca...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Eventually you get to Elon Musk...

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Brian Merchant  makes a really important point here, but he glosses over a fundamental distinction. Putting aside for the moment the equat...
Friday, August 4, 2017

It turns out that the key to bipartisanship is pseudoscience and bone broth

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We've been spending a lot of time recently here at the blog on health-related pseudoscience, particularly the kind espoused by Gwyneth P...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

The Enron, charter schools and related-party transactions

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I meant to post this analysis by Preston Green III when it first came out. Then I saw something shiny and got distracted. Enron’s downfal...