March 2011
67 posts
Bill Gates: Forget smaller classes -- what about... →
I like the thinking…
Read a New David Foster Wallace Short Story —... →
Nom nom
UX-related sessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 →
Very broad definition of a “session related to UX” but a good reference point.
February 2011
84 posts
Geeks helping jocks make the call - The Boston... →
Elite College Fems Earn Less →
“Attending a college with higher SAT scores clearly lowered the wages of women 17-26 years after starting college (in 1976) — a school with a 100-point higher average SAT score reduced earnings by about 6-7%! The two estimates there are significant at ~0.01% level!”
61% would oppose a law in their state similar to... →
Gallop Poll in USA Today
5 Seconds Of Every #1 Song Ever →
I just skipped to part 2.
Even more Skynet! →
Pentagon wants fighting robots to talk to each other
WatchMore Skynet… Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer
Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theory Generator →
example: “The terrorist enablers in our Taliban-occupied White House are releasing flying monkeys as we speak to help them raise your taxes to pay for illegal immigrants to get abortions. And we must put together our own militia to stop them.”
The Future of Unions →
…This is structurally the same problem faced by the United Auto Workers vis-à-vis factories in “right to work” states. I think the classic postwar American dynamic of an economy with a large minority of the workforce unionized is fundamentally unstable. In the long-run the two equilibria are toward a non-union economy or else toward the Nordic model where virtually everyone is in a union. In...
Tax Policy 101 →
Although Tea Partiers and others decry taxes of all kinds, many levies actually make the country richer, not poorer. The way forward lies in greater reliance on these kinds of taxes.
A tax on any activity not only generates revenue, but also discourages the activity. The second effect, of course, underlies the claim that taxes inhibit economic growth. That’s often true of taxes on useful...
“810,000 abortions are prevented every year by Planned Parenthood and other...”
– 1.94 Million Unintended Pregnancies and 810,000 Abortions are Prevented Each Year by Publicly Funded Family Planning Services
WatchThe First Real David Foster Wallace Documentary
