Gordon's Notes

In the past week or so I wrote a  summary post on how the people I read think about unemployment and the new American economy . I also wrot...

Dilbert 1/30/11 - "Option two: I could lie, and tell you that everything is perfect" . Perfect. Scott Adams has been at this for ...

I have children in public schools in grades 3 through 8. This isn't surprising ... Minn. science proficiency results called a shock | ...

Google's spam comment detection isn't good enough. After a one month test I've given up and restored a captcha function (yech) ...

One of the fringe benefits of playing professor is that I can insert my idiosyncratic observations into relatively innocent minds. Last nigh...

I'm surprised more people haven't noticed that  medical progress slowed way down after 1984 . It's not just medical science tha...

Americans are used to schools being by race. It seems we accept it and expect it... Marginal Revolution: U.S. fact of the day ... America...

The thinkers I follow [2] have been struggling to understand why America's unemployment is so high. Productivity is rising, the economy...

A student of mine grew up in Suzhou, China ; she left about six years ago. It was, she said, an  hour west of Shanghai, and had a population...

A randomly selected purebred border collie associates sounds with objects , and perhaps sound permutations with objects and actions. There ...

This morning,  thinking of Brazil I wrote ... I just wish I, and we, had a better way to share and understand the fascinating and terrib...

Chicago is the invisible city. Massive. Wealthy. Complex. But invisible. Chicago is America's third most populous city and third larges...

Ta-Nehisi Coates has been trying to imagine how, about 150 years ago, an American culture could celebrate the ownership of humans. That is u...

Blood and Treasure , one of my favorite blogs, suggests a leaked document as a guide to the current fears of China's leadership --   A G...

There's a book in play about "extreme parenting", which is apparently a Chinese thing (Koreans would disagree). It's gotte...