Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The problem with innovation is that it sometimes solves problems

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I'm in my mid-Forties so, other than some brief experiments with facial hair, I've been shaving more or less daily for around thirty...

How to REALLY lie with statistics

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Darrell Huff had a witty explanation of how you can change the impression a graph gives by playing around with the scale and range of the...
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Bob Dylan, the Monkees and the flooded landscape analogy

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Seth Godin's comments on Bob Dylan and the Monkees (which comes to us via Gelman via DeWitt via Tinkers via Evers via Chance) got me t...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Grants!

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Professor in Training has a nice post on grant writing and the frustrations encountered in the process. I have to admit that the first poin...

It is possible to have a simple question in a complex field

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Kartik Athreya packs a lot of stupid into one PDF and though Mark Thoma does a good job of unpacking most of it, there are, inevitably, sta...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

A pre-post post on Bob Dylan, the Monkees and the perils of reading business books

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Andrew Gelman has a post that refers to this passage from business guru Seth Godin: Let me first describe a distinction between the Monkee...

Some mathematical humor from Jeff Mallett's charming strip Frazz.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Social Norms

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Justin Alexander has an interesting post on the case of Twixt ; a media professor named David Myers decided to play in an online game. He d...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Advice on meeting people

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Prof-like substance has a great post on how to break the ice in unfriendly departments . I rather suspect it would work just as well in spe...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Effect and cause: Hollywood edition

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From New York Magazine : How Toy Story 3 Scored: Even though the kiddies all clap their palms raw whenever that silly cyclops of a desk la...
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Credit Hours

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Dead Dad has an intersting take on congress trying to make the credit hour a standard measure to qualify for student aid . The real issue h...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Co-authored work

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This is a major tangent from the post that inspired it, but going radically off topic is on of the tropes of the internet. In the post plu...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Dying is easy; comedy is hard -- journalism edition

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"When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide, But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide." It started wi...

More on impacts of Research

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From FemaleScienceProfessor comes a really nice comment on publishing in important journals: I have absolutely no problem publishing in a ...
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No subtle and profound scientific insights from Olivia Judson this week

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Just a sad and straightforward account of people contemplating an act of tragic stupidity.