Thursday, February 14, 2013

H-V-D

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Why China Must Urbanize: Strange mushroom object found in China

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Okay, it was buried 80 meters down.  And it has a strange, fleshy feel, and an "eye" on each end.  The video is okay, but the Eng...

Zombie Apocalypse: The Warning

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A solid prank.   Problem:  You will want pancakes. The video: Nod to Angry Alex

T. Oatley on "Ditch the Job Talk"

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One of the thing that frustrates me is the centrality of the "job talk" for professional hiring in academics . It's an arti...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

On the rebound?

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Over at Slate, Matt asks if the "manufacturing rebound" actually happening. He shows a graph of manufacturing employment, reprodu...
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THe Nature of Science, or the Science of Nature

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So, a study shows that research on mice is nearly useless , in some areas, for understanding effects on humans.  Or, worse than useless, ac...
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Spreadsheets Cause Financial Panics?

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This is pretty great. Now, they CAN'T be serious.   Of course, there are some arguments that are not entirely nonsensical. But stil...

Crisis Management

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Bruce Yandle is one of my favorite people. And he comes up big with this nice essay in Freeman.   Excerpt: The more serious the crisis,...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Separated at Birth

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By the way, it's NOT Bernanke who needs to be credibly irresponsible

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Krugman and others have been optimistic that newly elected Shinzo Abe can spring Japan out of its near-deflationary lethargy and get it grow...