The bees have, in short, created a simple culture in which behaviour patterns are passed on through learning, rather than biological inheritance. How Can Bumblebees Commit Crime?
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What’s patriotic?
Talking across the President. From George Washington to Calvin Coolidge, presidents sought mostly to administer the laws that enabled citizens to live their own lives, ambitiously or not. It would have been thought impertinent for a president to tell a…
Limited information no more?
Does this make the Spence model obsolete? No more college pedigrees necessary (only college learning)? Big Data Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers
When is a wind ensemble like a band?
when it plays Sousa. Andy Pease’s Wind Band Blog Found the site after hearing The Pathfinder of Panama and needing to learn more. Learned about The Liberty Bell, too. For future research: I wonder if they were always such concert…
Boston 15 April 2013
Two stories for perspective on the bombings The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On (The Atlantic) In ‘Marathon Man’ Rodgers Remembers Life-Changing Race (WBUR Boston)
A new class system
We’ll have to look at this in more detail. The story is a good intro, but there’s little to tell us why the new classification is useful. Britain’s Class System More Complicated Than Once Thought
The distribution of income
“The specifics of how best to do this all are (to say the least) contentious and not amenable to resolution by blog-length noodling.” Myth of ownership and the distribution of income (Slate)
Trifecta from A.Word.A.Day
All three components: the word, its usage, and the Thought. Vundabar! percipient (A.Word.A.Day)
Multipliers matter
Previous report says larger, with many countries Auerbach, Gorodnichenko Newer report says smaller in U.S. but bigger in Canada. Owyang, Ramey, Zubairy Hat tip to Marty Gaynor.
Blogging for a living
“Andrew Sullivan the blogger now has an incentive to write posts that work for Andrew Sullivan the businessman.” Andrew Sullivan Is Doing Fine (Planet Money)