Gordon's Notes

My, oh, my, it's still a whitewater world . Ezra Klein tells us ... America’s top export in 2011 is refined fuel ... ... UC San Die...

LiOn battery issues (burst into flame!) have led to an  Apple recall of the 1st generation iPod Nano . I dug out my neglected Nano and sent ...

"With great power comes great responsibility." Gingrich's inner geek smiled at that one. Certainly they had the power. The Dem...

Tara Parker-Pope, who describes herself as fat, has written an excellent state-of-the-science summary on obesity in America. I've excer...

Long ago Emily and I took a guided tour of Jefferson's home. He was described in glowing terms. In those days Jefferson was still a lege...

There is enormous, incomprehensible, wealth in the world. Increasingly, across all nations, it is concentrated in the hands of fewer and few...

The good news is that it's still hard to design a lethal plague. The 'cost of havoc' is higher than I once thought. Yes,  influ...

Krugman tells us Germany and the EU must bail out Greece lest the entire EU crash and burn. Germany is unenthusiastic. Michael Lewis makes ...

Brains have a big return on investment ... Tiniest of Spiders Are Loaded With Brains, Researchers Find - NYTimes ... In the smallest spid...

The American "War on Christmas" movement seems thoroughly silly .... Reminder: Tis the Season Not to Be an Ass – Whatever ...i...

AT&T will not unlock an iPhone under any circumstances. Together with their SMS pricing this has odd results (including a glut of former...

(I wrote this 9/2011, but I was mistakenly left as a draft until now.) Six years ago I read that new world dogs (canis familiaris) died in...

Decades ago physicians were taught that syphilis was a New World disease. The Europeans brought smallpox, and Amerindians returned syphilis...

Dell has ended their Netbook line . That leaves Google's Chromebooks , which aren't exactly exciting. I wasn't just a little w...

Does anyone reading this still happily use Blogger? If so, please comment below or comment on  this companion G+ public post . I'm tes...