Friday, April 28, 2017

That's right, a Rube Goldberg machine as narrative medium

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From Gizmodo's Andrew Liszewski : Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure is actually a sequel to an earlier Rube Goldberg machine featuring the...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

All of the great ones make sacrifices

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I'm planning to come back and connect this to some larger points, but for now I decided to get a quick post in to beat the Gizmodo rush....

Singapore Health Care Costs

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This is Joseph Ezra Klein has a very good Vox article on US versus Singaporean health care systems in terms of health care cost control...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

More on the possible WGA strike

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[Thanks to the scheduling function, my posts can be out of date before they even show up.] Ken Levine has another interesting and somewha...
Monday, April 24, 2017

A duopoly never provides “sufficient competition”

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As follow-up to our earlier post on the inability of market forces to fix airlines, Gizmodo's Libby Watson opens up her evisceration ...
Friday, April 21, 2017

I love this helicopter

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Michael Ballaban writing for the Gawker remnant Jalopnik: The K-Max actually went through an initial production run from 1991 to 2003,...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

"Southwest, where we beat the competition, not the customers."

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[Part of a flight attendant's closing announcement Thursday] Just to review : On Sunday, a man was forcibly dragged off a United fli...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

“Special Ed School Vouchers May Come With Hidden Costs”

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With the hiring of Dana Goldstein, the New York Times has definitely upped its game in education coverage. For many parents with disabled...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

The rise of the secular evangelicalism started a long time ago

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The following excerpts from a NYT piece on Alabama by Alan Blinder have gotten quite a bit of coverage: But others said it had become cle...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Trying to get a handle on the plagiarism discussion

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I believe I'm on the record as not having much taste for the topic. This is especially true in the case of Neil Gorsuch   (I'm still...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Friday video inversions

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Bach seems to survive the transformation nicely, but I think this is more interesting with a more familiar tune. Für Elise is one of ...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Bialystock's Paradox as explained by Jonathan Chait

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For a while now , we've been talking about the parallels between the Producers and the current situation facing the GOP. ("When you...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

“New Choice!”

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Ken Levine, who knows a bit about coming up with new ideas (having worked on MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, THE SIMPSONS, WINGS, EVERYBODY LOVES RA...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

They just want to help their children overcome the disadvantages of being rich in 21st Century America

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Those Title I kids get all the breaks. From Dana Goldstein : Craig Foster, a school board member from Malibu who favors separation, sa...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Is allowing a strike in the middle of a bubble ever a good idea?

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Sitcom veteran Ken Levine has an excellent (if not unbiased) post on the possible upcoming writer's strike . You should read the whole t...