Sunday, October 29, 2006

Larry Summers calls for smart populism

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Larry Summers, formerly a treasury secretary and more recently of Harvard fame, now writes for the Financial times (emphasis mine): FT.com /...

GCH1 and chronic pain

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This is not a gene you want your insurance company to know about: Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: New Gene May Help Pre...

Why does evolution allow gay and lesbian humans?

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Scientific American.com: Most Desirable Mates May Not Sire Prolific Offspring suggests evolutionary paradoxes like gay males may be related...

Curing data libels by poisoning the well

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Our alleged sins and misdemeanors are widely available; worse yet, some of the sins are untrue. (Schneier on Security) . Banks, airlines, ma...
Friday, October 27, 2006

Berners-Lee on the future of HTML

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The other day I asked my HINF studens who Tim Berners-Lee is. Nobody knew. I was tempted to fail everybody, but in addition to lacking that...

Spolsky's guide to interviewing and hiring - version 3

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Spolsky has rewritten his hiring guide: The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) - Joel on Software . These guides can be somewhat ...

Family Medicine Notes and Pycnogenol: Is Jacob testing me?

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Jacob wrote: Family Medicine Notes Pycnogenol for ADHD? Not clear what's up with this .. here's a placeholder for more review .. I t...

The Retreat in detail: An emerging plan

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A lead editorial in the Guardian lays out, in some detail, the expected retreat from Iraq . UK forces will leave, no matter the conditions...

Cheney: a breath of foul stench

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There's something refreshing about Cheney's honesty. It's like the cold breeze out of freshly opened crypt. Then the stench hits...

An excellent Mankiw discussion on Gas taxes and other externality taxes

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Greg Mankiw's Blog: Alternatives to the Pigou Club is a serious dialog around a recent WSJ article he wrote. I suspect the WSJ article ...

What we've learned from torture

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More information is coming out about the use of torture and physical abuse in US secret prisons on German soil. An article in Stern led this...

Research for Alaskan FP residents: Vitamin C and hand infections in Fishermen

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A colleague of mine is a serious fisherman. He spends weeks in remote Alaska, hanging out with professional and insane amateur fisherfolk. T...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Journalists matter: Gina Kolata on CT scans and lung cancer screening

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I was amazed to read Gina Kolata's NY Times article on CT scans and lung cancer screening . Why the surprise? It's very good. Sober,...

The future of the manager

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Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Post-Managerial Capitalism? Worth reading for anyone thinking about where capitalism is going next.

Google's Goals: Skynet 1.0

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From Google's internal goals document Google's Internal Company Goals ...Google wants to have the world’s top AI research laboratory...