Gordon's Notes

My daughter and I are using “Holt” [1] Mathematics Course 3 for her summer math work. It’s quite a good printed textbook; a used 2007 editio...

American unemployment, as economist’s measure it, is back to our post-2000 “norm”. On the other hand economic growth is low; our last quarte...

The American Board of Family Medicine  requires recertification every seven years. The standard modules are rigorous; perhaps absurdly so. T...

In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...

There are seven billion humans alive now, each the star of the show. In a decade we will, collectively, gather 60-70 billion years of exper...

Yahoo! has been an excellent spam-mail service. I use my Yahoo email whenever I want to avoid spam — such as when I have to deal with Ticket...

The only way I can make sense of the Beats acquisition is to assume that Apple is responding to landscape changes like the end of broadcast ...

I’ve been gnawing on this story for a year or two, figuring that sooner or later a real journalist would solve the mystery for me. That hasn...

Over the past two decades it has become apparent that the knowledge base for clinical medicine has been corrupted by publication bias, posit...

Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...

If you're a longtime user of Google properties, it's not unusual to come across abandoned and neglected properties. Weed infested, b...

Have you ever tried to buy high visibility wind pants? Something in bright orange for example? Good luck with that. Ninja black is the rule...

Everyone expects Apple to soon sell some personal monitoring device like the suspiciously defunct Nike Fuel Band. We remember that the “revo...

I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...

Epistemic closure (in political thought) . Confirmation bias  [6]. Availability heuristic  ( Kahneman System 1 ). Premature cognitive commit...