Saturday, November 24, 2012

"Lance Armstrong And The Business Of Doping"

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This Planet Money story is the first (and will probably be the last) account of the Armstrong scandal that has held my interest. It also ch...

To have one $8 billion dollar writedown, Ms. Whitman, may be regarded as a misfortune. To have two looks like carelessness.

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Ryan McCarthy in Counterparties : HP has become the place where synergies go to die. In its earnings release today, HP said it has taken a...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Introducing "You Do the Math"

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As Joseph mentioned earlier, I have a new blog up called You Do the Math focusing on ideas for teaching primary and secondary math. There...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Blog list updated

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The blog roll has had a fall cleaning.  I removed a few blogs that were really interesting but which had not been updated for months or year...

Toys for Tots -- reprinted, slightly revised

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A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children and their parents (and a lot of families are having a ba...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Bitter Harvest

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Just in time for Thanksgiving. From Marketplace : Michael Hogan, CEO of A.D. Makepeace, a large cranberry grower based in Wareham, says ...

Economics: a new definition?

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Is it fair to quote the definition of economics from the blurb for a book ?  If so, consider this definition in the blurb for Emily Oster...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Depressing education chart of the day

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Mike the Mad Biologist points us to this one .  From Karl Alexander (John Dewey Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University...
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More on Hostess

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There is a rumor that Mark is preparing a nice post on the whole Hostess bankruptcy story.  So, to continue to generate context, consider th...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Hoisted from the comments

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A rather nice point from commenter Bill Trudo that I thought was worth emphasizing: The problems at Hostess have been decades in the maki...
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What's with the (non)weird name?

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Hi, The regulars may have noticed something different about the top of the page. Observational Epidemiology is now West Coast Stat Views. ...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

"Peggy" "Noonan's" Life on Mars

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Apparently Martians are also using the analytic and marketing methods we've been using since the late 20th Century. From the Wall Stre...
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Go read Noah Smith

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Today's post is really good : Sicko is about America's health care system, and the alternatives. Before I saw Sicko, I believed t...

Jon Stewart opens up a big ol' can of historical context on Bill O'Reilly

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An absolutely beautiful piece of satiric commentary. The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire...

Follow-up to yesterday's post

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The discovery that Hostess tripled CEO pay  (and boosted the pay of other senior executives) while blaming overpaid unions for the end of th...
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