Thursday, May 31, 2012

Hydra posts

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I'm working on a post about this NPR story (take a look here and here and let me know if you have any reactions*). It started out as ...
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Mixed Markets

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Hoisted from the comments over at Dean Dad's blog: This is also the core of the social security privatization movement. SS is a visib...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

"Wesleyan University offers a three-year bachelor's degree"

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It's not exactly the way I'd do it, but on the whole I'd say this is a good idea .
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Dual Class shares and free markets

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Andrew Gelman weighs in on dual class shares :  Now I’m just confused here. Who’s supposed to be “concerned” here? As a New Yorker subs...
Monday, May 28, 2012

The other (non-Shakespearean) thing I learned in my college Shakespeare class.

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I've already mentioned that the tests in this class were unusual; the way I studied for them was a bit odd as well and though it wasn...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

If we're going to discuss education, we need to make sure everyone's heard this one

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From Bullfinch's Age of Fable : Several similar contests with the petty tyrants and marauders of the country followed, in all of which...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

"Of course, Shakespeare was much newer at the time"

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Back when I was an undergrad I took a class in Shakespeare. I'm mentioning this because a couple of aspects came back to me recently ...
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At the risk of stating the obvious, lots of cool things come out of MIT. The secret is in a futuristic substance known as "Liqu...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Putting our money in seed corn -- literally

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Noah Smith has an excellent post arguing that spending our limited research dollars on bigger and bigger particle accelerators is, at this ...

This could be an important shift

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Felix Salmon : And more generally, college is slowly moving from the “things which are bought” column into the “things which are sold” col...
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"An overdose of pharmacy students"

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As mentioned before, American Public Media's Marketplace has been doing exceptional work. Here's an example of particular interest ...
Monday, May 21, 2012

More on the reaction to gutting the census

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Mark Thoma sums it up : The good news is this vote is being criticized across the political spectrum ...  From the WSJ: Republicans t...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

"[N]ot a scientific survey. It’s a random survey.”

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The first from DeLong. The LA Times ran a recent Op-Ed by John M. Ellis and Charles L. Geshekter complaining about liberals in academia. ...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Adam Frank is better at science than business

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This is Falcon 7, not Falcon 9 Astrophysicist Adam Frank is what you might call a fan of SpaceX: So what's the big deal? Wel...

Closing words on Facebook (in handy audio form)

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Marketplace's Heidi Moore sums things up nicely. There's no transcript but it's worth taking a few minutes to listen to the sto...