Saturday, April 13, 2013

Weekend blogging -- Geoffrey Lewis

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It's always cool to discover unexpected talents in familiar figures, like the actor you've seen playing a hundred "blank-faced ...

The even more indefensible Michelle Rhee

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USA Today's Greg Toppo drives what should be the final nail into the coffin of Michelle Rhee's reputation (via Esquire's Charle...
Friday, April 12, 2013

S&W appreciation day

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A message from the makers of Swords and Wizardry in celebration of S&W appreciation day (April 17th): We would like to ask you each to...

When I say my to-blog list is ever-growing...

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Good ones from Dean Dad and Adam Kotsko . Felix Salmon is one of those rare business journalists who actually understands business . Eb...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Free TV blogging -- suspicion confirmed

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This was an AV club day. A musician friend needed some help digitizing various videos in various formats so we picked up an adapter at Fry...
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I'll be coming back to this...

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From John Hechinger : From 1993 to 2009, U.S. universities added bureaucrats 10 times faster than they added tenured faculty.

Stupid, horrible people are not interesting; intelligent, decent people doing stupid, horrible things are.

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Some recent activity here at Stat Views has got me thinking about a fairly obvious distinction that still somehow has a way of getting lost ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Why I remain skeptical about fully private health care

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Austin Frakt : But the problem here is far worse than that. A shockingly large proportion of hospitals could not even report a price whe...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The ever growing to-blog list

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Something on the optimal partitioning of time based on this from Neal Stephenson and John D. Cook. Mental Floss lists sometimes look a bi...
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Swords and Wizardry

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Long term readers may know that I am interested in Table top RPGs and Mark is actually a published game designer (Kruzno).  It has been a wh...

Cohort effects

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Kevin Drum has a nice piece about recent increases in social security disability .  His main hypothesis should be quite familiar to epide...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Obesity, genes and environment

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Via Thomas Lumley : In fact, just about the only completely uncontroversial fact about the increase in obesity is that it is entirely due...

Quote(s) of the day

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[See update] High school senior Suzy Lee Weiss has a piece in the Wall Street Journal (Gawker does a good job summarizing . If you're ...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Arthur Godfrey, Marshall McLuhan and the educational topic of the day

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There's a great quote from Arthur Godfrey which, unfortunately I'll have to paraphrase from memory. Godfrey, who was, by some stand...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Just two more on journalistic tribalism and I'll change the subject

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I was planning to give the topic a break for a while after these harsh (though I hope justified) posts on Timothy Noah and Jack Shafer , bu...