My Beliefs | Clayton Christensen There haven’t been many Mormons in my life (and although both Christensen and Romney have affected many of our lives, I don’t count them), but those that I’ve known have been people I admired. Christensen…
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Lewis on Kahneman and Obama
For those that enjoy the former trader’s way of looking at things, here are a couple of older Vanity Fair stories from Michael Lewis. The King of Human Error Note that the logic of the “availability heuristic” is to avoid exerting…
Asteroid, meteor(ite), and Russian civil liberties, oh my!
a.k.a. The great big video post! The big one: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Passes the Earth (APOD) The big boom: The Great Russian Meteor of 2013 (APOD) Love those connections to to economics: Look, up in the sky … a gold mine in space? (Marketplace) Why…
Wrinkled fingers and Curiosity
Cool science for the bathtub: Wrinkled Fingers Are Not Slippery When Wet and from the past: Curiosity Leaves Earth for Mars from Scientific American’s 60-Second podcasts.
The make or buy decision
A couple of posts below can be encapsulated by the first post’s final observation. How wonderful it would be to have a site that can’t be messed up by someone else’s stupid decisions. Only by my own stupid decisions. Which…
Who is the butt of the joke on Big Bang Theory?
Is it Penny? Sheldon? Leonard? Howard? How The Big Bang Theory Works (Fascination Place) Or is it ourselves?
The labyrinth of code
The several enjoyable tidbits in this review of 10 Print include “Mazes and dance, the authors argue, have shared a cosmic link through time immemorial,” and the final sentence. Computer programming: 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 (Slate)…
Advent calendar
An advent calendar from The Economist.
Krugman, The Decembrists, and …
Krugman knows of the Decembrists—admittedly, through NPR. This other guy I know and his bandmates: Down by the Water
Conversations imagined by economists
My Imagined Yet Realistic Debate Between Michael Sandel And … (Jodi Beggs, and commenters) A Liberal Obama vs. a Moderate Obama in the Fiscal Debate (Greg Mankiw)