Having almost recovered from Christmas and its associated feasts, I think I should take this opportunity (before New Year’s) to play around with what may be the greatest Christmas present of all. That’s right: Google’s Ngram Viewer, which lets you search hundreds of years of printed text in multiple languages and graph the frequency of the terms! No really, it’s [...]
Noah Millman, 2010: Jim Manzi is fond of making unfavorable comparisons between economics and physics, and those sorts of comparisons are pretty good for making economics look bad. But I think a much better comparison is of economics to medicine. How does economics stack up in that comparison? Well, is medicine a science? Doctors certainly have a lot of scientific knowledge. [...]
His name is Jebediah. He loves flowers, politics, and traveling. But he’s only 4″ tall. He’s my traveling gnome, a gift my sister gave me jokingly a few years ago. My exchange student friends who attend Sciences Po in Lyon, France and University College of London were kind enough to take him on their road trip this past summer across [...]
Today, I was going to bitch about the DP’s adulatory fawning over the new co-op idea. Three things, however, prevent me from doing so. 1. It’s not a terrible idea in and of itself 2. Second, IvyGate decided to bitch about Alec Webley’s column, which I rather liked 3. Third, I talk too much about housing already So: in brief, Alec thinks it’s [...]
Earlier today, President Barack Obama hosted a news conference in which he passionately defended his support of the tax deal currently on the table in Congress. As of now, the agreement consists of an extension of Bush-era tax cuts along with continued insurance for the long-term unemployed, tax cuts for lower-income workers and investment incentives for firms. The tax cuts [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted an article laying out my argument for large unilateral cuts to our nuclear stockpile, citing a Pentagon report that stated we would be secure with a mere 311 nukes. I would like to add somewhat of an addendum to that article – another reason that we’ll be safe and sound with hundreds, rather than [...]
So we all know about the release of US government cables by Wikileaks, and we’ve read a few articles here and there about some some particularly intriguing pieces. What we have not had is some sort of summary about the most interesting pieces…until now (well technically six days ago, but for the purpose of this blog’s readers it’s now). I think [...]
Today’s sub-5 minute video clip takes us to statistician Hans Rosling’s BBC television program “The Joy of Stats”. In this particular episode, Mr. Rosling plots tells the story of the past 200 years by plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries for every year since 1810. And the graphics are pretty snazzy, too. So, how has the world evolved [...]
by Adam Silver edited by Greg Kurzhals I am a huge fan of Obama. I am the kid who wears the Obama “HOPE” t-shirt way too often. I admit, I have Obama fever and I have it bad. To me, Obama is comparable to Bruce Springsteen, of whom I am also a fan. Springsteen fans take heat at times. A [...]
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