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    Tuesday, February 12, 2008 What will the enviros do if this is true? (2 clicks)
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February 12, 2008 at 5:33 am ET Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 12, 2008 at 5:21 am ET I just read Michael Crichton's 2005 "Complexity Theory and Environmental Management". Brilliant, beyond the telling. (Link via Art DeVany.) (But c'mon, Mike, this killer jellyfish thing really is scary.) Also see Depleted Cranium's "The Top ... (more) Shingles (2 clicks)
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February 12, 2008 at 5:11 am ET I hadn't heard about this: there's a new vaccine for shingles. ... (more) Monday, February 11, 2008 From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 11, 2008 at 5:53 am ET We're almost ten years past U.S. v. Microsoft. Take a look: Microsoft is valued at about $300bn, modestly above where it stood a decade ago. In just the past five years, however, Google and Apple ... (more) 40 acres and a mule, updated (7 clicks)
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February 11, 2008 at 5:46 am ET An excellent suggestion by Art DeVany: instead of checks for a few hundred dollars, why not give people a parcel of federally-owned land? The Bureau of Land Management is administering about 264 million acres. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 11, 2008 at 5:40 am ET Gregg Easterbrook provides more interesting stuff. On the stimulus bill: Buried in the stimulus bill is an obscure provision that raises the "conforming" mortgage ceiling from a current $417,000 to as much as $730,000, depending ... (more) "Trade in your Social Security check" (2 clicks)
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February 11, 2008 at 5:30 am ET I didn't know you could do this: if you take the early, reduced Social Security benefit at age 62, you can later pay the government a fixed sum and switch to the full benefit. Economist ... (more) Moore's Law not dead yet (2 clicks)
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February 11, 2008 at 5:13 am ET Robert X. Cringley argues that Moore's Law has at least another 15 years. ... (more) Saturday, February 9, 2008 Three on health (4 clicks)
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February 9, 2008 at 6:46 pm ET Just how helpful is Vitamin D? Forbes claims that the scientists can't decide. (But I've had one research scientist tell me that benefits are clear and substantial.) There seems to be reason to believe that ... (more) "Gizmo High" (4 clicks)
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February 9, 2008 at 10:05 am ET T. C. Williams High School teacher Patrick Walsh writes a terrific, impassioned argument against educational "technolust". Some of the fine passages: "They would rather have a cyborg teaching than me," one young English teacher complained ... (more) Friday, February 8, 2008 Barbarians once a generation (1 click)
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February 8, 2008 at 5:21 am ET Fine column by Jonah Goldberg that uses a story about his four-year-old daughter and one of Hannah Arendt's famous observations--we are invaded by "barbarians" once every generation--to make this point: "Civilization, at any given moment, ... (more) A million lines of code (1 click)
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February 8, 2008 at 5:09 am ET How big is a million lines of code? Answers. ... (more) From Yet Another Weird SF Fan (1 click)
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February 8, 2008 at 5:07 am ET Very nicely put: "A large fraction of 'progressive' thought is based on a bait-and-switch: First, you are given the bait of self-actualization and then told there is no self to actualize." ... (more) Thursday, February 7, 2008 Other blogs' posts on OSHA plus a story (7 clicks)
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February 7, 2008 at 5:46 am ET Interesting discussion--look at the comments--of OSHA on Marginal Revolution and also a post at Division of Labour. A good OSHA story is one I read about in Richard McKenzie and Dwight Lee's fine text, Microeconomics ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 7, 2008 at 5:33 am ET I like this video: "Extra Strength Tryphorgetin". (Not safe for Hillary lovers.) Link via Lucianne. This is definitely not funny: "Hillary’s Crocodile Tears in Connecticut". My own reaction was of regret that, when I terminated ... (more) Iran's Bomb (2 clicks)
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February 7, 2008 at 5:25 am ET Norman Podhoretz argues powerfully why we can't allow Iran to get the Bomb. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 7, 2008 at 5:01 am ET This is unsurprising: there's now a movement to save XP. ... (more) Wednesday, February 6, 2008 From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 6, 2008 at 5:50 am ET Hal Varian on why it might really be (sort of) Different This Time: Think back to those railroad tracks. The only thing one could do with those railroad tracks was carry trains. It would have ... (more) Weights (1 click)
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February 6, 2008 at 5:26 am ET As you get older, it's not enough to do cardio. You also need to lift weights. ... (more) Three economists on subprime (7 clicks)
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February 6, 2008 at 5:21 am ET Stan Liebowitz explains how the subprime mess was fostered by bad government research and a bad law. Richard Thaler and Susan Woodward argue that Hillary Clinton's proposed interest rate freeze is just plain bad. ... (more) U.S. falling behind the U.K.? (1 click)
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February 6, 2008 at 4:59 am ET It's one thing for South Korea and Japan to have cheaper, more available high-speed Net access. But now the U.K. is poised to roll out 100 Mbps residential broadband. Let's go, U.S.A. I want that. ... (more) Tuesday, February 5, 2008 From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 5, 2008 at 5:44 am ET Very interesting debate among right-of-center folks about John McCain. Bill Kristol, calmly, and Rachel Lucas, intemperately, make the case for half a loaf being better than none. (Kristol also properly warns the Right against bitterness. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 5, 2008 at 5:42 am ET Michael Lewis notes that Goldman Sachs seemingly lost a lot less than its peers in the subprime crisis: "What Does Goldman Know That We Don't?" ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 5, 2008 at 5:33 am ET The co-president of the "National Organization for Men"--he has a Ph.D. from the Berkeley ed school(!)--argues that it's about time we started looking out more for boys. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 5, 2008 at 5:25 am ET Raleigh's own John Hood defines conservatism. Nicely done. ... (more) Items 498 - 522 of 744
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