Saturday, May 8, 2010

Tyler Cowen has nerves of steel

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With no apparent sign of fear or hesitation, he links to the following WSJ article: Do Girls Speed More Than Boys? Survey Says Girls Drive ...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Things I've learned -- 60s pulp edition

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One of the pleasures of popular art is the glimpse it provides into the attitudes of the times. Sometimes this pleasure comes from the naive...

Things I've learned -- media critic edition

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Felix Salmon has a good, thoughtful take on the Newsweek sale, but before I link to it, I'd like to preface it with a few things I'v...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Scraping by on 200 million

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The LA Times recently ran an interesting article on attempts to reign in the costs of big budget movies: Bruckheimer's next production,...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Times change

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A few years ago (more than a few, now that I think about it), a sociology professor told me that, back in the Sixties, Texas Instruments wou...

"Research is a joy"

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I tried to shoehorn this quote into a post I'm working on. I couldn't make it fit but I couldn't bring myself to throw it away e...

Tyler Cowen hacks Robert Reich's site

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How else to explain this passage ? Apple’s supposed sin was to tell software developers that if they want to make apps for iPhones and iPads...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Weekly dose of Judson

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NYT's best science writer has a new column up. This time she's looking at the placebo effect.

Are oil companies rational actors?

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There are some good pieces out on the economics of oil spills from Jonathan Chait and Ezra Klein , but the best of the bunch is by William ...

Authorship

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I liked today's post by DrugMonkey on authorship . One item that I think is worth considering is that, in complex and multi-author proj...

"Markets Are Not Magic"

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An old post from Mark Thoma that's worth another look.

"Then I came up with a great idea: I could use the fork to spear the food and the spoon to scoop it."

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As many others have noted, there is nothing journalists like more than a standard narrative and when reporting on education, there is no nar...
Monday, May 3, 2010

"Shape of the earth -- opinions still differ"

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I was reminded of Paul Krugman's parody of a New York Times headline when I came to this NYT headline : "Despite Push, Success at C...
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Bringing a whole new meaning to the term "Primary Investigator"

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From Talking Points Memo : [Virginia AG] Cuccinelli has launched an investigation into one of the climate scientists who was embarrassed by ...
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Undiagnosed diseases

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One thought that I have often had about prescription claims databases is that we often can't do anything with missing data. If a patien...