Friday, December 1, 2017

Yes, I know I've reposted this, but it keeps getting more relevant

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As we were saying in August (point 2.2 to be precise) https://t.co/5k86uQjWOz Republicans Are Building Themselves a Political Trap with...

Lots of threads converging on this one

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And all of them tremendously important. Corruption and regulatory capture. An almost mystical faith in the magic of markets and private-ente...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

I'm running behind again so...

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Here are two beautiful French planes from 1909. Back tomorrow with actual prose. And a few impressive airships.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Belated Tuesday Tweets

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“Newsworthy” implies “demands coverage,” not “deserves platform.” — Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) November 13, 2017 Under its existing m...
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Kruzno

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A few years ago, when I was teaching high school, I designed some games to illustrate mathematical concepts and develop strategi...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Another Tesla article from the Scientific American archives (along with some very cool train pictures).

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19th Century drawing of a Geissler tubes . This story mainly stands on its own but there are a couple points I want to emphasize. F...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

This is what a good job market looks like.

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In the postwar era, employers (particularly what we would now call the stem fields) were genuinely hungry. They were willing to be flexible ...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu u...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Igon values, superstar coin flippers, and the Gladwell problem

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Malcolm Gladwell has started coming up in quite a few major threads and larger pieces, so I decided I needed to get up to speed on some of t...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Tuesday Tweets

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One of my great, ongoing problems is what to do with ideas that I'm not ready to write up or which are not ready to be written. One of t...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Australia citizenship furore

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This is Joseph Here is a case where they missed the main argument .  In Australia a number of MPs have been disqualified because the const...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

That sense of living in a science fiction novel

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As previously mentioned, I'm working on a project about technology. One of the central points is the ways we think and feel about techno...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Tax policy

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This is Joseph There are two pieces of journalism by Kevin Drum that are worth not missing. One, is his noting that some of the current ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

What if shame works?

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I've been meaning to do multiple posts on Patrick Radden Keefe's extraordinary article on how the Sackler family built a fortune by...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

If you believe in n-rays, believing in mental radio is not that heavy a lift

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Another visit to the Scientific American collection of the Internet Archive. Having spent a big chunk of the past few weeks reading over con...