Archive for May, 2009
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Actually, you just THINK you are thinner
This is my response to an interesting thread over at Marginal Revolutions regarding how Americans are now seeing themselves as skinnier, despite not having lost any actual weight.
This being a Marginal Revolutions post, there are the inevitable conservatives, and below is my response towards one who bemoaned the typical ‘leftist’ response of blaiming a restaurant [...]
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Am I becoming more economically wonkish
Either Krugman is getting less wonkish, his writing is getting better, or my basic knowledge of econ is expanding, but I actually understand why current fiscal expansion is not ‘crowding out’ private investment, a standard current conservative complaint of Obama’s policy…
At least I think I get it
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Why the kids like socialism
For a quick, and somewhat trite answer, it is because it is not capitalism, the system we have. Now, like most debates about a binary choice, the ‘grass is greener’ nature/motivation/neural imperative of humanity comes into play, but even this conservative bastion noted something funny….
But a college degree isn’t an automatic ticket to [...]
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
I don’t think I am smart enough
When I was reading ‘Supercrunchers’, there came a short section detailing the standard deviations among IQ and the associated bell curve distribution. Based on what I tentatively know about my IQ, an this chart, I am between 2 and three 3 standard deviations above normal. (I offered more than 3 but Andi firmly informed [...]
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
I am also on a high information diet
I love reading and storing information like this guy
What can I say….diet really seems the best word here. I feel like those who don’t have much intellectual curiosity must be starving.
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Random musings in the wee hours (for those unable to sleep)
I was at a crowded Subway yesterday. As I was standing in line, a large group of Asians got up and left, leaving their table in a revolting shamble. Since the people behind the counter were hardly lounging about, the odds of the table getting cleaned any time soon seemed unlikely….and sure enough, by the [...]
