Friday, January 29, 2016

Remember that pivot thing?

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Before we get started, a quick caveat. As mentioned before (probably at greater length than necessary), much if not most of the mainstre...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

I think we need to think more carefully about how to make situations like this one less unfair

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This is Joseph. I always find stories like this one amazing.  From the Trustee report: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. ... filed the KEIP...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Only Trump can go to Nixonland?

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To win the Republican nomination, Nixon told Dole, "you have to run as far as you can to the right because that's where 40% of the...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

VFX paradox

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In case you're coming in late, we have an ongoing thread about how, despite conventional wisdom about cost spirals, the part of film-ma...
Monday, January 25, 2016

More thoughts on the Goffman story

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Andrew Gelman set off an excellent discussion of the lingering questions about Alice Goffman's On the Run triggered by these two post...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Success made easy

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I haven't had time recently to follow the no-excuses charter school story as closely as I should. When I do get back to it, one of the p...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Sometimes the side effects matter

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Via Thomas Lumley : As the OneNews story says, there has been a theory for a long time that if you wipe out someone’s immune system and st...

In case you missed it...

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PBS.org will still be streaming Sherlock: The Abominable Bride for a couple more days.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

I'm posting this anecdote mainly as a reminder to start using the word "kalopsia" more often...

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... but his story from Mark Evanier also connects to some present and future threads about television and what drives innovative people lik...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Today in education reform

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This is Joseph It seems like I completely misunderstood the Friedrichs case.  I had assumed that it was about removing unions from the pub...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Redistribution to make society stronger

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This is Joseph I occasionally hear the argument that taxes are a form of theft.  When this is a form of looting to make the lives of the...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Private and public can both be effective

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This is Joseph So the Bertha tunneling project, led by a private contractor, was suspended after a sinkhole developed as a part of the tun...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Ayn Rand and Government?

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This is Joseph You thought that this would never happen -- that we'd link to Gin and Tacos .  But the latest piece on Ayn Rand and col...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Traffic Myths

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This is Joseph Via, the Mad Biologist , where are 10 tired traffic myths that didn't get a rest in 2015 .  The most interesting was th...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

I had a busy Monday

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So let's all just kick back and enjoy a video.