Policy & Politics Science in the Civic Arena
October 15, 2007
Mike the Mad Biologist
The Economics of Reigning in Hell maha lays out what the consequences of an extraction-based economy--one that exploits humans--are.
Pure Pedantry
But my latte costs me 7 dollars! Sigh, the weak dollar is killing me over here in London. But if Marty Feldstein says it's a good thing, I guess I'm in no position to contradict him....
Deltoid
Krugman on Gore Derangement Syndrome Paul Krugman offers an explanation of Gore Derangement Syndrome So if science says that we have a big problem that can't be solved with tax cuts or bombs -- well, the science must be rejected, and the scientists must be...
Pure Pedantry
Is suicide bombing a means of population control? I was struck by an NPR story this morning where they talked to a pathologist in Afghanistan. He conducts the autopsies on the remains of suicide bombers there. The doctor argues that a great many of them had mental or...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Robobugs: Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean... ...they're after you? Are we being spied upon by bug-like robots?
Uncertain Principles
Announcing the Uncertain Principles Physics Scholarship Program In the spirit of the newly clarified regulations governing the Academic Competitiveness Grant and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant Programs administered by the Department of Education, I am pleased to announce the Uncertain Principles Physics...
The Questionable Authority
"Framing" Al Gore: Matt Nisbet continues to pontificate about why Gore really isn't as cool as the Nobel Committee thought. Apparently, Matt Nisbet didn't think that one poorly-reasoned critique of Gore's ability to communicate science was enough for the weekend, because he tossed out another a day later. You might recall that in his first critique, Nisbet claimed that...
Uncertain Principles
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 The weekend interrupted the parade of Nobel prizes, setting apart The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, more commonly called the Nobel in Economics (even though it's a late addition). This goes to three...
EvolutionBlog
The Cats in Baghdad Sunday's New York Times offers a poignant look at some of the victims of the Iraq War: IT was a bitterly cold night in the Baghdad winter of 2005, somewhere in the predawn hours before the staccato of suicide bombs...
The Corpus Callosum
Benefits of Immigration I suspect that the recent article by Shankar Vedantam, in the Washington Post, will largely be taken as fuel for the immigration debate. However, that is not why I find it interesting. When Immigration Goes Up, Prices Go Down By...
October 14, 2007
Deltoid
Monckton was behind Dimmock's lawsuit When last we heard from Christopher Monckton he was too gravely ill to answers questions about how someone claiming to be him and using his ISP had altered his own wikipedia entry and added on obvious fabrication, to wit, The...
The Questionable Authority
The Income Gap and the Education Gap - and how to stop leaving children behind. Education takes money. It takes education to close skill gaps. It takes skills to close income gaps. In the United States, it takes income to live somewhere that provides quality education. The children who live in areas that don't provide quality education have a hard time learning skills. Without skills, they don't earn a lot of income. Without income, they have a hard time living somewhere that provides a quality education. Without education...
A Blog Around The Clock
Barbeque Journalism Jeffrey Feldman nails it: Every journalist working in America should print out that passage in extra-large font and tape it next to the bathroom mirror. Better yet, they should put the passage on a chain and wear it around...
October 13, 2007
The Corpus Callosum
Romney's Bid For Michigan Romney thinks he has a winning strategy, but he's wrong. Presidential hopeful Romney vows to help pull Michigan out of economic slump Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau Saturday, October 13, 2007 GRAND RAPIDS -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt...
Deltoid
The Washington Post's war on Gore In my post on the decision by Justice Burton to allow the showing of An Inconvenient Truth because it was "broadly accurate" I listed some of the reporters who wrongly claimed that the judge decided that AIT had nine errors....
The Corpus Callosum
Rice on Russia US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has some choice words for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Rice Worried by Putin's Broad Powers Rice Criticizes Putin's Concentration of Power, Says It Interferes With Move to Democracy By MATTHEW LEE Associated Press Writer...
Effect Measure
Taxing the Ambassador Should an Ambassador from Heaven get diplomatic immunity?
October 12, 2007
EvolutionBlog
Krugman on Fire Paul Krugman does his usual fine job of exposing the utter lack of conscience on the American political right:...
Mike the Mad Biologist
I Get Letters About Bush Dogs No, not the cute furry ones. The Democrats who vote against Democrats on S-CHIP.
The Questionable Authority
Bill O'Reilly identifies reasons to vote for John Edwards. (He didn't do it on purpose, of course.) According to Bill-O, the world would be a scary, scary, scary place if Edwards is elected president: Remember, no coerced interrogation, civilian lawyers in courts for captured overseas terrorists, no branding...
Thus Spake Zuska
Kudos to the Al - and the Nobel Committee By now you've no doubt heard that Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I must confess that this announcement gives me no small degree of schadenfreude when I think...
Deltoid
Gore Derangement Syndrome For this post I didn't go trawling through freeper or blog comments or look at obscure blogs. I just went to memeorandum. William Teach The Nobel Prize committee has basically surrendered to hysterics, mass exaggerators, and liars, most of who...
Terra Sigillata
NASCAR As An Infectious Disease "I don't know about you, but I usually keep some syringes in my moonshine jar, out back by the ol' still that grandpappy tends when we're not all runnin' from the police."
denialism blog
Say Goodby to a Hack Chris DeMuth, the head of AEI, is announced he's stepping down from the position in the WSJ Op-Ed page (article free here - at AEI). His farewell is a call to crankery: Every one of the right-of-center think tanks was...
denialism blog
9/11 cranks sure are paranoid - of each other One of the latest discussions going on at the 9/11 conspiracy sites is the big question of who are the 9/11 disinformation agents being paid by the government to spread lies and confusion about the events of 9/11. George Washington...
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- Tell us who you are! Alice
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