Gordon's Notes

Shame on us ... The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker ... The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, at the Smi...

Gay marriage is a done deal. That culture battle is done. We lost the gun wars, but we won on Gay rights. So now peace has broken out acros...

Health reform discussions are boring. I wish could resist health care reform posts. It's a compulsion, but at least I only do them every...

The weak are inescapable. Live long enough? Probably weak. Child? Weak. Wrong genes? Not so strong. Blacksmith post-horses? Tribe out of po...

Borders is in bankruptcy. Its future is quite uncertain. Of course the books we bought there are still good. The paper ones that is ... B...

I've been around enough acquisition pieces to recognize that this is an excellent summary of a business acquisition.   M&A Case Stud...

CNN Money's list of the 8 least evil banks. They seem largely next-generation banks; they're least good at what we use a bank for - ...

We've lived with  Everyday Mathematics through the last six years of my son's primary school education. It's a lousy way to te...

I haven't had anything novel to say about the  Egyptian Revolution of 2011. .. The 2011 Egyptian revolution was a series of street dem...

Netflix streaming to the Wii attached to our ancient CRT used to require a physical disk. It has recently switched to using Wii internal st...

Most organizational and commercial websites truly suck. It's Bizarre. It's really not that hard. Between XKCD and The Oatmeal, her...

I was a persistent skeptic . I didn't believe that exercise slowed the inevitable [1] onset of age related cognitive decline. The ani...

I was surprised when I did my 2008 family medicine board exams ... Gordon's Notes 2008: Challenges to medicine and science – medicatio...

I used to teach Bayesian reasoning to informatics students. I couldn't justify to them why such simple math felt both spooky and profoun...

The conclusion of an essay beloved to Krugman and many other economists ... Economics of POW Camp, R.A. Radford 1945 .... In January, 19...