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June 20, 2008 at 5:35 am ET For a "special treat", Gene interviews his wife. ... (more) In case you're visiting Berlin soon . . . (16 clicks)
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June 20, 2008 at 5:14 am ET . . . a short guide to Berlin's "beach scene". ... (more) Thursday, June 19, 2008 Ed Leamer hangs tough (3 clicks)
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June 19, 2008 at 5:53 am ET "[UCLA] Economists predict more pain ahead but no recession". ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 19, 2008 at 5:35 am ET The Journal of Wine Economics has recently debuted. ... (more) "Youngest college professor in history" (1 click)
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June 19, 2008 at 5:31 am ET Woman. Material sciences and engineering. 19 years old. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 19, 2008 at 5:25 am ET Other bloggers have been commenting on the minimum-score proposals of some schools that I've noted. Moonbattery has a particularly interesting proposal: Here's an idea for educrats: Instead of setting a floor for all students, why ... (more) "How to pick a law school" (2 clicks)
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June 19, 2008 at 5:20 am ET "2. Don't be completely seduced by law school rankings. For instance, Cornell is a top-ranked law school. But it's also filled with people who didn't want to go to Cornell but went there anyway because ... (more) Wednesday, June 18, 2008 I can only laugh (2 clicks)
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June 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm ET Just saw this via Lucianne.com: "Naming U. of C. research center after Nobel Prize winner has faculty split". In a letter to U. of C. President Robert Zimmer, 101 professors—about 8 percent of the university's ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 18, 2008 at 5:42 am ET John Lott critically reviews the estimate by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes that the Iraq war has cost $3 trillion. Among the economists who question the estimate, or who compute the cost at considerably less, ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 18, 2008 at 5:32 am ET The New York Post reports that New Utrecht High School valedictorian, Lukasz Zbylut, was accepted by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Georgetown, and NYU, and eight other selective schools. But not MIT. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 18, 2008 at 5:27 am ET Making an honest buck in business is tough. Making that buck for 37 years is tougher. Making that buck for 37 years while retaining a huge amount of affection from your employees is tougher still. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 18, 2008 at 5:25 am ET A thought prompted by this (very) tongue-in-cheek complaint: Office of the President Arizona State University PO Box 877705 Tempe AZ 85287-7705 Dear President Crow: cc: Vice President/ Dean CLAS David A. Young: I am writing ... (more) Tuesday, June 17, 2008 From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 17, 2008 at 5:58 am ET Washington, D.C. limits the height of buildings. Benefits: " . . . a day to appreciate the building-height limits that allow unobstructed views of the fireworks on the Mall from roof decks miles away. Washington's ... (more) A little bit of Google's secret sauce (3 clicks)
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June 17, 2008 at 5:51 am ET "The inner workings of Google just became a little less secret." ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 17, 2008 at 5:28 am ET A Washington, D.C.-area couple is selling concierge services for $65/hour. [They] cater to households with incomes over $200,000. That might sound expensive, Ken says, but many of their customers are busy CEOs with no time ... (more) Pethokoukis vs. Mallaby on McCain and Obama (15 clicks)
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June 17, 2008 at 5:23 am ET I was going to criticize "The Audacity of Growth" by Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post, but James Pethokoukis has already done a fine job. But I'll add some comments on Mallaby's next-to-last paragraph: The ... (more) Does the Internet "end in 2012"? (11 clicks)
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June 17, 2008 at 5:23 am ET These folks think it might. I don't believe it, but I'm giving y'all a heads-up just in case. (This New York Times article is less apocalyptic, but points in the same direction. One question: what ... (more) Monday, June 16, 2008 Wise words on losing weight (2 clicks)
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June 16, 2008 at 5:55 am ET I believe I've written about the work of Gary Taubes before--though I can't quickly find the link--so no need to repeat. But in this recent interview he concisely makes a vital point about losing weight. ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 16, 2008 at 5:35 am ET Some schools are considering mandating a minimum score of 50. It's no surprise that the Chapel Hill school district considered a minimum of 61. (As in Lake Woebegon, all their students are above average.) ... (more) Here's a surprise (not!) . . . (1 click)
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June 16, 2008 at 5:35 am ET . . . a well-intentioned government subsidy seems to be having unexpected distributional effects. When [Massachusetts] Governor Deval Patrick signed legislation a year ago to expand state tax subsidies for the film industry, he predicted ... (more) From Newmark's Door - view blog entries - visit this blog
June 16, 2008 at 5:22 am ET Discovered by Andrew Gelman: "When you have computational problems, often there's a problem with your model." I conjecture that this could be shown to be a corollary to the principle of "Keep It (Sensibly) Simple, ... (more) Good luck with this (19 clicks)
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June 16, 2008 at 5:08 am ET "Dubbing itself 'pioneers of visual search technology', Vuestar Technologies said it owns the patent to the technology that enables 'Internet searching via visual images'. "In sum, the company implied that any Web site that uses ... (more) Obvious sentences of the year (so far) (11 clicks)
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June 16, 2008 at 5:06 am ET "Economics, like math, is something most people rationalized they would never need to know after graduation. But with gas prices soaring, home values sinking, consumer debt rising and jobs vanishing, it is hard to deny ... (more) Sunday, June 15, 2008 Two fine meditations on fathers (1 click)
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June 15, 2008 at 5:30 am ET I don't usually read the Washington Post for news or opinion, but it--as does the New York Times--still has a lot of excellent "back of the book" pieces. Here are two short essays appearing in ... (more) An instructive story for young people (2 clicks)
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June 15, 2008 at 5:30 am ET A fine story about one relatively young NC State graduate who has worked himself up from the bottom of the totem-pole to a position near the top. Link courtesy of reader Timothy W. ... (more) Items 51 - 75 of 744
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