Friday, June 3, 2011

RIP: Joel Rosenberg

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Noted Canadian science fiction author Joel Rosenberg has died. It is a poorer world without him.

One more thought

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Mark , Andrew Gelman and I have all weighed on on the article written by David Rubinstein. So I think the high points have been hit. One...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

University Professor Compensation -- Andrew and Joseph hit the big points but leave out the punch line

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Both Andrew Gelman and my co-blogger Joseph take down David Rubinstein and his bizarre Weekly Standard piece, "Thank you, Illinois ...
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University Professor Compensation

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Andrew Gelman links to college professor David Rubinstein who makes a number of inflammatory comments under a headline that includes "...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Tyler Cowen argues against more regulation with an example that calls for more regulation

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Tyler Cowen has a piece in the New York Times on how regulation inhibits innovation in transportation using the example of driverless ca...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A couple of interesting stories on the business of gambling

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American Public Media's Marketplace has a report on one of those you've-got-to-be-kidding business models . Not sleazy (the people b...

A "how to lie with statistics" instant classic from the Wall Street Journal op-ed page

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CJR's Ryan Chittum catches Stephen Moore doing his damnedest to mislead: The question-as-headline is your second red flag that this jus...
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Metaphor of the day

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From Merlin Mann via John D. Cook : If a project doesn’t have an owner, it’s like a chainsaw on a rope swing. Why would anyone even go near ...

More nails in the church door -- the case for the counter-reformation keeps getting stronger

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The education reform movement is a strange beast. Its support is extensive and extraordinarily broad-based, bringing together players as div...
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Thought of the day

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I was reading this statement (via a link from Felix Salmon ): Emergers also have a better chance of being part of the coveted 1% who contro...
Monday, May 30, 2011

3-day Weekend Blogging -- Junk Food edition

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We've been robbed! L.A. is unquestionably one of the world's great burger towns (and I have the only Pulitzer Prize winning food cri...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Correlation is not causation . . .

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. . . but this association is both alarming and worth a lot more study; Plus, overall, people with long commutes are fatter, and national i...

Perhaps we were a bit too quick to dismiss the Jupiter effect

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Consistency

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I was looking at Andrew Gelman's blog and saw his discussion of Ray Fisman's piece on compensation . I was especially struck by th...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

And NPR is probably the best of the bunch

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Between poll numbers, town hall meetings and the special election in New York, the Ryan budget is starting to look like a tremendous politic...