Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Biomedical Patents

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In a follow-up to this post , I thought it would be worth looking at a piece of the patent system where I don't have major concerns -- n...
Monday, March 3, 2014

The frustrations of public health

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Amanda Marcotte : In other words, learning that they were wrong to believe that vaccines were dangerous to their kids made vaccine-hostile...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Copyright

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From Beat the Press: The big winners get to be big winners because the government is prepared to devote substantial resources to copyright...
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Back (momentarily) on the terrestrial superstation beat part 1 -- GetTV

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While checking the TV listings a couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting but unfamiliar station showing what appeared to be a Jack ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Also true for Epidemiology

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From the ever interesting Andrew Gelman : Don’t model the probability of win, model the expected score differential. Yeah, I know, I know,...

Light posting

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The last major push of traveling season is upon me and I know Mark is in the later stages of a pretty cool project.  So we might be updating...
Monday, February 24, 2014

The Outlier by the Bay

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[Homonym alert -- I dictated this to my smart phone then edited it late in the evening.] There's an energetic debate going on over at...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Weekend blogging --Hard boiled (foreign edition)

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A couple more from the Criterion Collection for your cinematic to-do list (free for the next nine days).  Akira Kurosawa's High and...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Context is everything

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There has been some vigorous discussions about the Congressional Budget Office's claims that increasing the minimum wage would cost job...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Chip and Pin

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Kevin Drum : Americans are already accustomed to using PINs, and would have no more trouble managing multiple PINs than Danes and Italian...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

French inefficiency

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So I had always presumed we make a painful choice between efficiency and social support.  That the United States has an efficient and dynami...

"The Wolf of Sesame Street"

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I'm not sure whether this David Sirota exposé is a pension story (which is Joseph's beat) or a media story (which is more my territ...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Felix and pensions

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I wish I could write as clearly as Felix Salmon : Isn’t it better to just keep all your money for yourself, and make sure to save enough t...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

More on the animosity of the education reform movement toward professional teachers

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Following up on Joseph's post on Jonathan Chait and the education reform movement and on the ensuing discussion.. I've talked bef...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Free markets: a continuing story

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Capitalism in action : The NYT has a fascinating piece about threats that Tennessee Republicans are making against Volkswagen if they reco...