Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Once again, intellectual property law has made satire superfluous

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A couple of months ago I wrote a post about Apple patenting wedge shaped tablet computers. For a title I tried to think of a design feature ...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Journalistic outsourcing

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This American Life digs into the future of journalism and discovers that, not surprisingly, it uses a fake name: And in fact in all the t...

What is in a name?

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So I have been wondering for a while if the blog name, Observational Epidemiology, really reflects the direction of the blog.  It seems more...
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Red flags -- few quick thoughts on Hacker and algebra

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Following up on the previous post , we do need to have a serious debate on curriculum, but most attempts at starting these discussions are u...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

I need to read this in depth before I comment further

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Though my initial impression is not positive. From Andrew Hacker via Dana Goldstein : A TYPICAL American school day finds some six mill...

Felix Salmon tries to keep'm honest

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Not so long ago, journalism was a much more difficult job. Sources were only accessible through land lines and face to face conversations. O...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Loan Sharks, Facebook and the Growth Fetish

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Think about the following game. I'm going to let you pick seven or twelve then I'm going to role a pair of dice. If you pick seven y...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Remember that ongoing conversation about the decline of journalism?

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From Marketplace : Vigeland:  OK, excellent. Give us a rundown of some of the subjects that you have been quoted as an expert on.   Ho...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

More on microfoundations

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Speaking of the stuff of the queue, Joseph and I have been talking about questionable defenses of economic rationality. Now Paul Krugman (...

Two anecdotes on how (and how not) to run a business

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I'm going to be discussing both of these businesses in future posts but since my queue is pretty full at the moment I thought I'd ge...

Krugman on Climate Change

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Paul Krugman makes a couple of essential points about climate change. The first points to a new paper by James Hansen. As Krugman puts it:...
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Saturday Afternoon in LA

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I'm typing this sitting under the umbrellas at Irv's Burgers, a Fifties era hamburger stand in West Hollywood. It's a notoriou...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Marissa Mayer: Outlier

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There has been a lot of talk about Marissa Mayer , the new CEO of Yahoo!  A lot of the interest seemed to be in the fact that she was six m...
Friday, July 20, 2012

"The corporate equivalent of ketosis"

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An excellent post by Felix Salmon on the mishandling of the USPS : To put it another way: the Post Office is broken, in large part thanks ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

AHRQ Questions

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The Incidental Economist is writing about a House Bill to remove AHRQ as an agency and to remove economic research from the National Instit...