Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Google -- Over-spammed or over-engineered (or both)?

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Brad DeLong points to a couple of posts on the declining quality of Google searches. Jeff Attwood concisely sums up the central point: Peo...
Monday, January 10, 2011

'Standard' does not mean 'sound'

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Eric Schoenberg is raising some important points : [Greg] Mankiw concisely summarizes the theory underlying the ethical argument for market ...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Damned Canadian Show-offs

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From the aforementioned paper by Lane Kenworthy: At the risk of repeating myself, if we want to use the experiences of other countries to ...

"Two and a Half Cheers for Education"

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I've only had a chance to briefly skim this paper by Lane Kenworthy, so I can only give it a so-far-so-good recommendation, but what I...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Political rhetoric and political violence -- the McKinley Assassination

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William Randolph Hearst was relentless in his attacks on President McKinley. When the president was assassinated, those attacks had conseque...

Dark days

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In Arizona this morning : Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has reportedly been shot in the head at point blank range at an event in her distri...
Friday, January 7, 2011

While we're doing "then and now"

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Back in June, 2009, this is how Edward L. Glaeser felt about the bailouts : Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the public sector has spe...

Lone star, bad portents

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Then : Now (from Paul Krugman ): These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New Y...

Defining Denominators

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Via Mark Thoma , I discovered this very interesting article looking at group of gross domestic product by working age population (WAP): When...

Rajiv Sethi was there first

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While going through the comment section of this post by Tim Duy, I was reminded that Rajiv Sethi was talking about broadcast HDTV long befo...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Earnings of Post-Docs

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Felix Salmon links to this post from the Economist and extracts this rather amazing statistic: In Canada 80% of postdocs earn $38,600 or ...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Research Plans

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In the comments to this post , PhysioProf draws a very interesting distinction: You know all the people at Drugmonkey’s blog and Writedit’s ...
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The Scalar Fallacy

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Sometimes the things that give us the most trouble are most obvious. When something is completely self-evident, it can be difficult to wrap ...
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"Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time"

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Via Felix Salmon, there's a bleak but informative article in the Economist on the PhD glut . Here's a sample: For most of history e...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Correction

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I was wrong when I said industry watchers had been incorrectly announcing the death of network television for over thirty years. I should h...