Friday, September 30, 2011

Why I keep going on about rabbit ears

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I'm starting a string of posts on this so I thought I'd take a few moments and explain why I think over-the-air TV is worth discuss...
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You should read this

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Science is about discarding models, not making them
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Performance based teaching

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Via Megan McArdle , comes this gem : It would be naïve to assume that the persons subjected to variable pay-for-performance would accept the...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Micheal Lewis on California Government

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Interesting view : In 2010, for instance, the state spent $6 billion on fewer than 30,000 guards and other prison-system employees. A prison...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

What you'd be watching now if you had rabbit ears

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I'm working on some longer posts on over the air television, particularly on the innovative people at Weigel broadcasting, so I thought ...

I wish I had time to join this debate

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But work's hectic, I just got over some dental work and this blog is already my personal hydra (every time I get one post up, two more a...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Tag-teaming Felix Salmon

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Felix Salmon recently (and much to his credit) announced a smack-down on himself: Christopher Mims makes a really good point: It make...

We treat economists as authorities on genetics and epidemiology but we aren't that interested in what they have to say about economics

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From Media Matters : Of the 1,258 guest appearances during segments that discussed the issue in the month leading up to the debt deal, only ...
Friday, September 23, 2011

When Greece is an appropriate example

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I'd mentioned the problems with using Greece as the prime (and sometimes sole) example in the austerity debate. Now, via Krugman, Kash ...

Joey Skaggs and Rick Perry

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I remember an interview with the great prankster Joey Skaggs. Skaggs had a long history of getting major news outlets to report his over-the...

Marginal utility

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Frances Woolley asks a question : In othe words, the reason we care about inequality is that it reduces the happiness achievable from a give...
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California Falling

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In interesting news today, California is now at the very bottom of the top ten states for wealth . The continued prosperity of the East Coa...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Is smoking really the most important predictor of obesity?

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Does this headline really represent the data?: The No. 1 Reason Americans Are Getting Fatter: We're Not Smoking The text goes on to dis...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Beware of pundits bearing ADA arguments

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Reading Paul Krugman (more a cumulative effect than any particular post) has gotten me thinking about how ADA arguments have come to domi...
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The Growth Fetish cont. -- Netflix and Dylan

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Joseph has a great post up that dovetails nicely with my earlier post on attitudes to corporate growth and contraction in which he elabora...