Friday, July 29, 2016

A fifty-one year old view of the future of high-speed rail

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This advocacy pamphlet/comic book from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen is interesting for any number of reasons, ranging from th...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Aspect Dominance or just reporters loking for a man biting a dog?

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The neverhillary crowd certainly can be vocal and they get a lot of press, but how much of a factor are they?  Harold Meyerson writing fo...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Catching up on Tesla

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This story has had a bit more legs than I expected, probably in part due to the way it was handled by the company. Tesla, like its founder, ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

And now a brief musical interlude

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With all the talk of Russia and Putin trying to influence this year's Democratic national convention, it seems appropriate to take a l...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Everyone looks good compared to someone

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Rick Perlstein has an exceptional piece of historical analysis up at the New Republic comparing and contrasting (mainly contrasting) the ac...
Friday, July 22, 2016

When catharsis becomes an end to itself

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Ed Kilgore does a good job summarizing an important aspect of the GOP convention. On Wednesday night, Team Trump deliberately provoked wh...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

First it was Andrew Gelman* with the clickbait titles...

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...then the GSA While on the subject, Ken Levine recently collected a number of representative  Huffington Post headlines. As he put i...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Son, there used to be these things called antitrust laws

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From a fascinating set of graphics from the good people at Gawker Media . These last two connect to one of our long-r...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Charter school financing has a way of getting complicated

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Via LGM . I know I've made this point before, but emotions run hot in the education reform debate so it's important not to demon...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking resume

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It is important to remember that this ageism is part of a larger phenomenon. Though most of us don't have any adult memories o...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Cracked: "Why Everybody Wins If Batman & Superman Are Public Domain "

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I believe we can safely take this as a piece of devil's advocacy -- Warner Bros. would not really come out ahead on this  -- but it'...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Matthew Stewart on McKinsey and Co.

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Following up on yesterday's post and laying groundwork a Teach for India thread, here's  another selection from Matthew Stewart...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The birth of scientific management

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I've had this in the queue for a while -- management gurus figure in a lot of our ongoing threads --but news of the emergence of Teach F...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Flashman finds work (again)

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[I'm planning a couple of posts on Teach For America's international push . One of the elements I'm planning to cover is the abs...
Monday, July 11, 2016

One reason there were so few women in classic cartoons

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I always assumed it was because the knockabout humor played better with male characters, but animation authority Mark Evanier points out an...