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December 2016

  1. The coolest part is when it makes its own planes
  2. The war on data heats up
  3. If Soylent actually were people, it would probably be easier on the digestion
  4. Now that I think of it, maybe all tech reporters should be satirists
  5. The wonderful thing about age discrimination is that eventually we all get a chance to share the experience
  6. Happy XKCDmas
  7. "Albert and Pogo's Christmas" by Walt Kelly
  8. Bad reporting continues
  9. Christmas Greetings from Slumberland
  10. Our annual Toys-for-Tots post
  11. Among living Americans, there are only two "generations"
  12. Last minute gift ideas from Cracked
  13. Two Napoleons and a Potemkin village
  14. Charter schools and astroturf
  15. The future of Faraday Future is questionable
  16. Despite what Munroe says about the industry group, it's still less effective at lobbying than Disney's
  17. "Disruption" is now officially a dead metaphor
  18. Vanishing overhead bins in the upsell economy
  19. Thomas Friedman blogging IV – – good tech is friendly tech
  20. More excellent work from Adam Conover
  21. Thomas Friedman blogging III – – a few words from Matt Novak
  22. Cracked's interesting but self-refuting argument
  23. Essential tech reporting at Gizmodo [Facebook edition]
  24. Ordinal wealth and the bigger pie fallacy
  25. Thomas Friedman blogging II – – failing to learn about "learning faster"
  26. The Flawed Premise
  27. Thomas Friedman blogging I – – it's time to kill the "moonshot" metaphor
  28. More on graphical representations of music
  29. Tom Hanks, creepy CGI Santa Clauses, and the theological canary in the coal mine

November 2016

  1. Forget about faithless electors for a moment; it's the faithful we might need to watch.
  2. Terrestrial superstation blogging – – Luken
  3. The myth of orthogonality
  4. It's not what you'd call a pretty sound...
  5. "As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]
  6. This is joseph i hadnt been thinking
  7. In anticipation
  8. Another entry in the Annals of Bad Ideas
  9. One more for the lexicon: Curse of the First Model
  10. And no, we are not going to talk about the movie version
  11. With all this talk of moon bases and Mars missions
  12. Cracked.com: " Why Hollywood Can Lose Billions & Still Make Terrible Movies"
  13. Terrestrial superstation blogging – – MGM's the Works
  14. On the plus side, it's an industry disruptor from a visionary CEO
  15. I'm just going to post videos till I get my head around things
  16. More thoughts on the economy
  17. Talking Points Memo
  18. "Click"
  19. Prehistory of the TED talk
  20. Post-election pondering
  21. More post-apolitical posts
  22. It's important to remember the good moments as well
  23. An important cultural literacy note
  24. Going out like he went in...
  25. Even the hitchhiker with the axe... *
  26. "How to Rig an Election"
  27. Entrenchment versus democracy
  28. If Donald Trump is somehow elected president tomorrow...
  29. "Worth making" does not begin to cover it
  30. A post-apolitical era(?)
  31. Trump didn't start Trumpism
  32. When different interpretations become different realities
  33. I never thought the “Seven Days in May” joke would become a thread…
  34. When the meta-dialogue about the campaign starts to sound like the f**king campaign
  35. Four from Talking Points Memo I'll want to get back to
  36. Five hour lines and the tell-your-grandchildren effect
  37. Nevada, either leaning slightly Trump or in the bag for Hillary
  38. Proof = hearing about things
  39. However, the real candidate is not filled with tasty treats
  40. I was joking about the Seven Days in May reference
  41. It's like a weird mash-up of The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May
  42. The message is the same but the direction has reversed
  43. I'd say something about “unintended consequences,” but that implies longer term intent
  44. Petruchio liberals
  45. An emerging journalistic subgenre
  46. In retrospect, it's surprising we don't use more sewage metaphors
  47. Is this Clinton story becoming a Comey story?

October 2016

  1. R.I.P. Zacherley (September 26, 1918 – October 27, 2016)
  2. Happy Halloween from the Mercury Theatre
  3. Not so much being asked to dig your own grave, as being charged for the shovel
  4. Growing up in Arkansas...
  5. Following up on "Calling all political science grad students"
  6. Why I no longer wait to post speculations on the campaign
  7. Trump as stressor -- yet another evangelical edition
  8. Aspect Dominance or just reporters loking for a man biting a dog? -- repost and update
  9. When we finally get around to discussing range-of-data issues
  10. Breaking the laugh barrier
  11. An open letter to Brian Beutler and Ed Kilgore
  12. [I had a really funny title for this post, honest]
  13. Saying your opponents won't show up to vote may work as unintentional reverse psychology
  14. Mormons, Evangelicals and...
  15. I don't have time to discuss how bad this is
  16. Even the guy with the axe...
  17. Do you realize we've been telling these jokes for almost thirty years?
  18. Evangelicals and clarifying shocks continued [insert Road to Damascus reference here]
  19. Vivendi, where the shamelessness goes to 11
  20. A mean looking kid walking by a row of glass houses with a big ol' bag of rocks -- repost
  21. Rabbit season! Duck season! Rabbit season!
  22. What they're reading today in Utah
  23. If you're following politics, you need to be following the religious right. If you're following the religious right, you should be following Charles Pierce.
  24. Just take that old post I wrote and substitute "Mormon" for "Evangelical"
  25. Thinking about the rigged election narrative in catastrophe theory terms
  26. And you thought #LeaveItBlank was out there
  27. Evangelicals and the clarifying shock
  28. I've got this idea for a movie about a celebrity fascist propelled to power through the support of baby boomers
  29. On Sunday posts, electoral math, voter psychology, marketability, and the care and feeding of black swans.
  30. #Leaveitblank?
  31. If you start hearing this word a lot a month from now, remember you heard it here first
  32. "The Conspiracy Behind Your Glasses"
  33. It was good enough for Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor
  34. Inheritance Tax
  35. A very brief Robert Benchley film festival
  36. Why AP? -- another assault on conventional wisdom from your friends at West Coast Stat Views

September 2016

  1. A system with multiple veto points
  2. How the sugar lobby (effectively) killed RC Cola
  3. What almost everyone gets wrong about Uber and driverless cars
  4. The coolest spot in town
  5. This is what I meant by "a very lonely position"
  6. “Transformative” remains a word better suited to Hogwarts than to the Harvard Business School
  7. Damn, we have been hammering at this one for a long time.
  8. "Never trust a superintendent. They'll lie to your face"
  9. "Why do you hate us for caring too much?" – – Dispatches from a besieged institution
  10. “And now the piano stylings of Richard Nixon”
  11. Yes, things are better
  12. Sugar versus Fat: which is worse for your heart?
  13. Two must-read articles on the state of California's charter schools with commentary by Charles Pierce
  14. Pension Funds: a never ending saga
  15. A reminder that the New York Times is not a monolith
  16. Ddulite watch -- annual Apple post
  17. A quote to close the week
  18. We haven't talked about this for a while
  19. We haven't had a visit from Roger for a while
  20. I don't normally link to Twitter, but...
  21. The cognitive dissonance phase
  22. Josh Marshall is the most important journalist of the 2016 election.
  23. The essential context for this and every other SpaceX story
  24. Another Day, another dot

August 2016

  1. Cracked takes on AirBNB
  2. There's always Ann Coulter.. No,wait. Strike that.
  3. The logical result of an illogical policy
  4. Déjà vu all over again
  5. Adam's back
  6. When I have time I need to come back to this
  7. Light posting for a awhile
  8. College Humor -- "If Internet Ads Were Salesmen "
  9. What a 12-year-old in the early Fifties expected the 21st Century to look like
  10. The back of the queue is packed; front is almost empty -- updated
  11. If James Whitmore were alive alive he'd be booked solid
  12. New article
  13. I grew up with a lot of Trae Crowders
  14. Test-based education reform -- when a means to an end becomes the end itself
  15. Sad
  16. Calling all political science grad students
  17. With Trump, everyone gets their own scandal
  18. Quote of the Day
  19. The loss of plausible deniability
  20. Some of the scariest stuff doesn't even involve Trump
  21. Weekend blogging -- Moondog
  22. Of course, Jeff Zucker's standard for doing a really nice job might be different than yours and mine
  23. "On any other day, that might seem strange"
  24. To understand Trump, you have to understand right-wing media. To underestand right-wing media, you have to understand...
  25. Just when I was about to back off from all the "black swan" references
  26. Today's classic movie clip
  27. Explaining Trump in Four Words

July 2016

  1. A fifty-one year old view of the future of high-speed rail
  2. Aspect Dominance or just reporters loking for a man biting a dog?
  3. Catching up on Tesla
  4. And now a brief musical interlude
  5. Everyone looks good compared to someone
  6. When catharsis becomes an end to itself
  7. First it was Andrew Gelman* with the clickbait titles...
  8. Son, there used to be these things called antitrust laws
  9. Charter school financing has a way of getting complicated
  10. Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking resume
  11. Cracked: "Why Everybody Wins If Batman & Superman Are Public Domain "
  12. Matthew Stewart on McKinsey and Co.
  13. The birth of scientific management
  14. Flashman finds work (again)
  15. One reason there were so few women in classic cartoons
  16. If only they had come up with a cool name
  17. Damn you, Tom Simonite!
  18. The near miss effect -- what compulsive gamblers and tech reporters have in common [repost]
  19. In that last paragraph you can substitute in SpaceX, Solar City and the Hyperloop
  20. In lieu of fireworks, here's some data visualization for the 4th
  21. This is the sound of the sky not falling

June 2016

  1. You need to watch this
  2. This would also be perhaps the first time a question starting with "how does it feel" will produce an interesting answer
  3. Brexit Bregrets or Polls as Self-refuting Prophesies
  4. Still coming up to the edge of the 1964 analogy
  5. "Whom are you voting for? This guy can read your mind." -- with that headline, what could go wrong?
  6. How long does Trump stick around after the fun stops?
  7. It's not "vibranium." Hell, it's not even a "hyperloop."
  8. Red flags -- when contradiction becomes confirmation
  9. Best pop culture reference by an economist
  10. The coming of Trump -- what we were saying about journalistic decline and Republican dysfunction here at the blog in 2013 [Part 2]
  11. The coming of Trump -- what we were saying about journalistic decline and Republican dysfunction here at the blog in 2013 [Part 1]
  12. We haven't done one of these for a while
  13. I always tried to do my best on tests. Now I learn the real money is in bombing them
  14. The rule for distinguishing the serious Hyperloop articles from the BS
  15. "Life as seen in Dickens' fiction"
  16. Proposed* Hyperloop** connecting Austria*** to Slovakia to Hungary***
  17. Squandering journalistic reputations on the Hyperloop, the Economist edition
  18. Quote of the day
  19. Donald Trump as stressor – – Phase 2
  20. That's a lot of weather to be immune to
  21. Journalistic Betrayals -- Is the NYT experimenting with Pinteresque alternate chronologies?

May 2016

  1. Too busy to talk about these now but...
  2. At least it's under $5 billion...
  3. "Elon Musk does his best Donald Trump impression" -- the invaluable Michael Hiltzik
  4. Latest video in the Puzzler's Guide to Problem Solving series
  5. "Wowza" doesn't begin to cover it -- why we need Gawker -- part III
  6. "How To Party Your Way Into a Multi-Million Dollar Facebook Job" -- the sad state of business journalism [Why we need Gawker -- part II]
  7. Why we need Gawker -- part I
  8. Chamberty and barratry -- Josh Marshall takes us through the courts of Ithuvania
  9. Running a political columnist through the translation app
  10. Adventures in Ithuvania -- REPOST
  11. What went wrong with Mars One and Hyperloop coverage -- never let a resolved issue stand in the way of a nice think piece
  12. Essential Kael
  13. Keep an eye on the follow-up
  14. Where were we? Oh, yeah, the Hyperloop
  15. I'm going to see how far I can go into this thread without using either the expressions "train wreck" or "perfect storm."
  16. Another puzzle video -- going meta on Dudeney's Beer Barrel Puzzle
  17. From sandwich-makers to sitcoms -- more tales of monopsony
  18. What does Mark Thoma think about Jimmy John's?
  19. The shift from “is not” to “is” framing or when the irresistible appeal of not-Trump meets the immovable obstacle of is-Cruz
  20. TFA's enrollment woes – the importance of putting numbers into context
  21. One of these I'm actually going to write that ddulite mega-thread...
  22. The wages of bad journalism are Trump
  23. So speaks a person who has never lived with room-mates
  24. Aleatoricism and Social Media
  25. Product placements and hidden costs
  26. How a hit show loses (or perhaps "loses") money
  27. Puzzle and Problem-solving videos [Doublet edition] – now slightly less beta
  28. Maybe I'll get around to a post on...
  29. Dean Dad on Zero Sum Performance
  30. Context only counts if it shows up in the first two dozen paragraphs
  31. When is the presumption of reasonableness reasonable?

April 2016

  1. Actually, Whole Foods are both high-price and high-volume
  2. Damn, apparently Krugman has gotten to the College Humor staff
  3. The Monsanto House of the Future
  4. The “Prisoner's Dilemma” moratorium
  5. Remembering the St. Francis Dam
  6. "Likely not peer reviewed"
  7. Suspensions and calm-down rooms in Boston
  8. A missing data parable that links to secondary data use
  9. It still counts as commuting when you do it in an airplane
  10. Striving to empower positive, problem-solving team members to aspire to inspire to create a culture of yes
  11. Trump, Hitler and an excuse to post a College Humor video [slightly NSFW]
  12. Intro to epi -- relative life expectancy
  13. When moving to a high density urban area increases commuting distance
  14. When threads collide -- anti-trust and copyright
  15. Paul Krugman provides a coda to the naked emperors thread
  16. Deferred futures, unvanished cities and bent spoons -- pre-blogging an Arthur C. Clarke thread
  17. They only let him slip away / Out of kindness, I suppose…
  18. When surveys come back and bite you
  19. When threads collide -- ed reform and the new economy
  20. "Will More Transit Actually Ease L.A.'s Traffic?"
  21. Baseball is kind of a slow game -- maybe it leads to ADHD

March 2016

  1. Location continued
  2. This is not the mind behind ‘Dilbert’; this is the mind behind the 'Dilberito.'
  3. Location, Location, Location continued -- more outliers
  4. Lessons in reading a business story -- location, location, location
  5. Brooks on Trump -- Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
  6. Getting an early start to the weekend
  7. Quotas
  8. The Wages of Strauss* -- Part II (Josh edition)
  9. Revisiting "The Battle for New York Schools: Eva Moskowitz vs. Mayor Bill de Blasio"
  10. Musical Accompaniment
  11. Suspensions and Race
  12. Budget spirals
  13. The Missing White House Tapes -- you can find everything on Youtube
  14. Policy tangle
  15. When did following up become the exception instead of the rule?
  16. You should read the whole thing
  17. One of these days, we need to have a discussion of Kickstarter...
  18. The wages of Strauss are Trump
  19. Hard to believe we've never heard of this guy
  20. A useful reminder of a key life lesson
  21. Context for the No-Excuses/Campbell's Law discussion
  22. Trade and Taxes
  23. Rob Long on the television content bubble
  24. Rational decisions based on incorrect assumptions
  25. ‘If you’ve made them cry, you’ve succeeded in getting your point across’
  26. In an age of open-carry, that video would have ended very differently
  27. Still don't want to push the 1964 analogy too far, but...

February 2016

  1. And, of course... Florida
  2. I should have posted this quote a long time ago
  3. I don't have time to write this up...
  4. As you read this, keep repeating to yourself, "second graders"
  5. Ayn Rand: a continuing saga
  6. The Other Seccret Success Academy Tape*
  7. Just when you thought Hulu's anti-trust issues couldn't get any worse
  8. "Slam the Exam" = "Game the System"?
  9. Losing money to build market share
  10. While we're on the subject...
  11. Working towward a notion of plausibility -- Krugman on models
  12. "Some kids don't count"
  13. “[T]he feeling that you don't believe that black and brown kids can be successful" -- why culture and rhetoric of the reform movement make civil discussion so difficult
  14. This Mercury being less interested in carrying messages than in filtering tham
  15. A very good question
  16. Success is not a scalar
  17. Slowly he turned*... -- more on Trump and the Nixon Pivot
  18. Posts I don't have time to write – two from LGM
  19. "Because you like the story"
  20. David Frum's well-written Rubio analysis consists of a badly written tweets
  21. Recognition Kalopsia, Confirmation Kalopsia, Narrative Kalopsia
  22. Parking and time wasted
  23. Vivid guesses
  24. Bob Elliott, R.I.P.
  25. Iowa -- land of red squares
  26. Data based decisions work badly with fraudulent data
  27. The Other Half of the Problem

January 2016

  1. Remember that pivot thing?
  2. I think we need to think more carefully about how to make situations like this one less unfair
  3. Only Trump can go to Nixonland?
  4. VFX paradox
  5. More thoughts on the Goffman story
  6. Success made easy
  7. Sometimes the side effects matter
  8. In case you missed it...
  9. I'm posting this anecdote mainly as a reminder to start using the word "kalopsia" more often...
  10. Today in education reform
  11. Redistribution to make society stronger
  12. Private and public can both be effective
  13. Ayn Rand and Government?
  14. Traffic Myths
  15. I had a busy Monday
  16. When threads converge -- "How Mickey Mouse Destroyed the Public Domain"
  17. How you sound to others
  18. Food stamps, time of the month, and outcomes
  19. Small changes in taxes
  20. A Paul Krugman pun so bad even he apologizes
  21. Even suburban cowgirls get the blues
  22. Star Wars the Force Awakens (mild spoilers)
  23. A good new year's resolution
  24. A thought for the new year: Eisenhower on planning

2015 337

December 2015

  1. Happy New Year from Windsor McCay and Little Nemo
  2. This could go poorly
  3. As currently implemented, MOOCs make no economic sense
  4. I have serious doubts about the 1964 analogy, but ...
  5. Miami: the new Venice?
  6. Principal agent problems
  7. Albert and Pogo's Christmas
  8. Public subsidy of health care costs
  9. In the war on Christmas, it was the evangelicals who took the first shot (literally)
  10. Why I am unlikely to write a naked emperor post about Talking Points Memo
  11. "The world’s first $200 million STAR WARS fan-film"
  12. Our annual Toys-for-Tots post
  13. Believe it or not, I was working on a post arguing that mainstream journalism had declined in quality when this came up
  14. Fall flashback -- If I were writing it today I'd make more of Romano's title -- "This is the way Trump ends"
  15. I really don't snack that much
  16. Have you noticed how, as journalists have gotten worse, comedians have started stepping up to fill the gap?
  17. In the Heart of the Sea – – another example of the strange economics of filmmaking technology
  18. Distracted by the large flock of black swans
  19. Damn you, Jonathan Chait
  20. "Confessions of a Republican," Johnson, 1964
  21. Brooks on a good day
  22. Whose budget plans are more realistic, Trump or Kasich? (this is not a rhetorical question)*
  23. Note to self:
  24. The war on data
  25. This American Life had two thirds of a great episode on marketing
  26. Obscure comic book heroes battle (the idea of) cost disease
  27. XKCD polio
  28. Argument by outlier
  29. Kruzno -- the beta
  30. I haven't posted this in a while...

November 2015

  1. I actually knew "Entrance of the Gladiators"
  2. Happy Black Friday
  3. "As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]
  4. Breaking news: New York Times spots naked emperor at GOP royal court
  5. Bateman on the Turkey/Russia standoff
  6. At least Krauthammer's position on Eastasia remains consistent
  7. Little Nemo Meets Lieutenant Kijé -- Having fun with Kdenlive
  8. This is not a post
  9. Perceived value -- Vegas style
  10. Everyone has an opinion on how to deal with Daesh*; people who read Robert Bateman have a more informed one
  11. "Who am I kidding? I mean, we all have strings."
  12. Why I'm not writing a post on Napoleon Hill
  13. "I was the Duke"
  14. In the spirit of the day
  15. If you're going to do a series called "Smarter Every Day," you should probably try to be, well, smarter
  16. "The Friends of Frank Fay."
  17. "George" "F." "Will" is no David Brooks
  18. The Witch of November
  19. "Heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates" -- understanding Ben Carson
  20. Groo
  21. Return of the rabbit ears
  22. The more things change -- advertising edition
  23. Just because you're a critic doesn't mean you have to be critical
  24. Outlaws
  25. Defending the indefensible for fun and profit – lesson 1: tone and framing

October 2015

  1. I ain't scared of no posts
  2. "[POPULAR APP] for [BLANK]" -- it's like Mad Libs but you end up getting twenty million in venture capital
  3. Corporate statisticians survival guide – – rule of nominal overcompensation
  4. More Netflix
  5. This would tend to support the hack hypothesis
  6. Nonetheless, I still prefer to think of music executives as rapacious creeps
  7. Things that a data-driven company ought to know
  8. As cracked.com observed, the fact that Apple chose this guy to represent the competition tells us loads about the way the company looks at its customers.
  9. With any luck, the last we'll hear from these two
  10. Martian Climate Truthers
  11. Meta-perception and plausible deniability
  12. Papering the house -- Twentieth Century style
  13. Education reform
  14. Well, this looks interesting
  15. Dean Dad on assessments
  16. Teach For America's aspect dominance*
  17. Two anecdotes on command economies
  18. Andrew Gelman: Hoisted from the Comments
  19. Does nobody read primary sources?
  20. The welfare state
  21. "So long and thanks for all the fish"
  22. We have little evidence that our approach is effective, but at least it's inhumane -- UPDATED
  23. Three from Marketplace, presented almost without comment
  24. New York Times definition of the week: "full-fledged investigation" = one Google search UPDATED
  25. Occam's Razor
  26. Ken Levine shows us how NBC shows get on the air
  27. The Daraprim story

September 2015

  1. Cliches so hoary it hurts to type them
  2. Revisiting Nate Cohn -- Scott Walker edition
  3. The magic of markets
  4. Papering the house -- 21st Century style
  5. Under our radar
  6. Disability in the United States
  7. Jonathan Chait is strongly (but selectively) offended by Islamophobia
  8. Dynamic scoring
  9. A natural experiment in journalistic objectivity (or at least a chance to draw a sharp comparison)
  10. Tasteless joke first, intellectual stuff later
  11. CARLY and the sliding scandal scale
  12. Planned Parenthood, channeled information and catharsis
  13. Some people inefficiencies are other people's core services
  14. Matthew Yglesias has a good overview of the Jeb cuts
  15. Mercury and Mars
  16. Uber as a restaurant
  17. Naked emperors, standard hack templates and a really bad piece by the NYT's Alan Rappeport -- UPDATED
  18. Can Uber beat buses?
  19. Only Nixon can go to China; only Trump can go to Iran and Kentucky -- UPDATED
  20. Is Trump the leper with the most fingers?
  21. A must read
  22. "Maybe there are two different Donald Trumps"
  23. Interesting discussion of crowdfunding movies
  24. Or you could flip this around and say that big-budget superhero movies are a terrible investment
  25. The Tragedy of Mercury

August 2015

  1. Arguments for a content bubble
  2. The third reason Trump is so interesting
  3. An unintentionally informative sentence about the culture of the education reform debate
  4. Did you know Happy Birthday was copyrighted?
  5. Hopefully not followed the next day by a BBC segment on what it feels like to be going to Mars
  6. "... while Governor Bush's attire was tastefully sheer and minimal"
  7. Trump's first gaffe? (tone of voice:tentative)
  8. Wishful Analytics
  9. Who's Afraid of Lonesome Rhodes?
  10. Donald Trump as stressor – – Five Thirty-eight edition
  11. More on Joseph the unclear
  12. Quote of the day
  13. More naked emperor reporting -- at this point, the NYT is just trolling us
  14. Rolling back the Civil Rights Movement one school district at a time
  15. Yes, it is possible to lose money doing this
  16. Symbiotic relationships, non-aggression pacts and naked emperors
  17. Mark Thoma and the Sesame Street MOOC
  18. When the channeling of information goes awry
  19. "Since John Harvey Kellogg gave C.W. Post his first enema" [Now with working link}
  20. There is nothing more dangerous than a data-driven system designed and administered by people who don't understand statistics
  21. And you thought they were kidding
  22. Joseph is unclear
  23. Retirement age
  24. Parking requirements
  25. Growth fetishists are an optimistic lot
  26. Harsh Discipline and No-excuse Charters continued
  27. Harsh Discipline and No-excuse Charters

July 2015

  1. Supply and demand
  2. When your business model depends on finding miracle workers, you learn not to check behind the curtain
  3. Sometimes you just need the punchline
  4. The strange loves of pundit centrists
  5. Meritocracy
  6. Outlier by the Bay
  7. REPOST -- Maybe the [2012] Republican primary [was] going just as we should [have] expect[ed]
  8. The Apple Tax
  9. Let's all take a moment to close our eyes and picture ourselves desecrating the grave of William Proxmire
  10. "The Fallen of World War II"
  11. Let's see how many people I can piss off with this one: Fox News is not all that conservative
  12. Euro-area thought of the day
  13. Update on the Washington Post piece
  14. Why Eureka (and implementation in general) belongs in the Common Core debate
  15. Godzilla vs. Rodan -- digital media edition
  16. On the plus side, a holographic instant replay machine would be really cool
  17. Over at the Monkey Cage...
  18. Sentence of the day: constructive critcism
  19. From the ashes of New Math
  20. Sentence of the day: Greece edition
  21. Opposite day at the Common Core debate
  22. I'm trying to make a point about executive compensation (and perhaps implicitly about anti-trust laws)
  23. Video accompaniment
  24. Perhaps "secrets" isn't exactly the right word
  25. David Brooks -- wrong in the right way
  26. I do not have time to heap an appropriate amount of scorn on this...
  27. "Welcome to Devonian Park"
  28. In the great halls of Ithuvania, all of the banquets are catered by Whole Foods
  29. For the math nerds in audience (or as we call them here, "the audience")
  30. John Lott's tertiary defense

June 2015

  1. Mark Thoma continues to shine
  2. Cracked, on the other hand, is very good at talking about math
  3. There may be a quality control problem here -- nearing the end of the EngageNY thread
  4. On the teaching blog
  5. Third, when you call yourselves "Great Minds," you're just asking for trouble
  6. What high school students are learning about statistics
  7. Defining dysfunction
  8. A genuinely funny conspiracy theory
  9. Captain Outrageous
  10. Uber and rules
  11. The New Yorker's culture desk could use a fact checker
  12. I don't have time to comment on this one
  13. Eugen Weber explains the origin of window shopping
  14. Over at the teaching blog
  15. FYC -- AMC really, really likes Emmy Awards
  16. What could possibly go wrong?
  17. Another convoluted IP tale
  18. Josh Marshall on Scott Walker's anti-tenure push
  19. Cracked has some fun with ad campaigns
  20. Land of the Pyramids
  21. Damn you, Jessica Williams!
  22. Coming attractions
  23. Good cop, bad cop
  24. The issue isn't (just) excessive CEO pay
  25. What happens when someone actually tests one of Nathan Myhrvold's culinary tips?
  26. Privacy in and out of the classroom
  27. Revisiting the SNAP challenge
  28. The internet has made historical revisionism so much easier
  29. Yes, I am taking the pro side here on autonomous vehicles
  30. CLEPs and MOOCs
  31. Tired blood and Nazi superman vitamin pills
  32. Dining tip – when eating out with Maureen Dowd, don't share an appetizer
  33. Before we talk about 21st Century technology...
  34. Jack Shafer, poster child [repost]
  35. When the data runs contrary to what people claim

May 2015

  1. It is a legitimately good sign when a transportation story uses the term “maximum throughput”
  2. A statistician walks into a grocery store... repeatedly
  3. Adventures in Ithuvania
  4. The actual future of the driverless vehicle
  5. "Inequality and Urbanism"
  6. "...pretty soon you're talking real money"
  7. Three from our war on science correspondent...
  8. Really cheap chickenless chicken and black-bean soup
  9. The New York Times has a class problem -- "Poor Little Rich Women"
  10. Seen recently at the food blog
  11. I haven't made up my mind whether Mike is onto something with the "gentry class" designation
  12. Fake Data in Political Science
  13. Blast from the past -- The curse of large numbers and the real problem with p-values
  14. Very good statistics post (p-value edition)
  15. Double-talk and Mathiness
  16. The value(s) of a dollar
  17. Notes on today's election
  18. Double Talk
  19. Another post at the food blog
  20. Private property
  21. More on the Business Insider food stamp challenge
  22. Leave it to an Irishman like Pierce to throw in a puck goat
  23. Journalists can't shop (I was way too hard on Ron Shaich)
  24. It might not be a kangaroo at all; it could just be a really big mouse
  25. I've been watching the national press screw up Arkansas stories all my life
  26. Getting a handle on the food stamp discussion
  27. Hey, buddy, can you spare a dime for a cup of coffee? -- no, really
  28. Musical accompaniment for upcoming pasts on class tourism
  29. An Arkansas Tea Party group plans an anti-equality rally. Guess what happens next...
  30. Experiments in blogging -- A Statistician Walks into a Grocery Store
  31. Not 'diagnostic' in the sense that it aids in diagnosis
  32. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing
  33. Morricone Mondays
  34. A rich person's idea of a poor person's grocery

April 2015

  1. Eating reasonably healthy at the 99 Cents Only store
  2. Not a left/right but a left coast/right coast issue
  3. 'It's a good thing we didn't see what we just saw.'
  4. Time of Apollo
  5. This is where I got my numbers on radiation shielding for Mars One
  6. A VERY intelligent rover
  7. “Six Minutes of Terror” -- why Mars landings are so difficult
  8. "Clutching at straws: the illusion of existing technology" -- more Mars One
  9. Disclaimer of the week
  10. Pi
  11. "Little interest in sequels"
  12. I thought I had posted these weeks ago
  13. Another post I won't have time to write
  14. n-gram ranking can be fleeting
  15. The best parts always end up on the cutting room floor
  16. "The van-leader of civilization"
  17. Self-inflicted Gish Gallops
  18. California Drought -- Bad Grandfather
  19. Educational media of yore
  20. “Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally” -- more for the to-blog pile
  21. Fmri
  22. Is the attitude toward Israel another left/right axis shift?
  23. Little Technophile on the Prarie
  24. Self driving cars
  25. An April Fool's Day Repost

March 2015

  1. I realize we're entering dead horse territory here -- UPDATED
  2. I don't have time to blog about this
  3. No part of this project is credible
  4. Against a stupid meme, the gods themselves contend in vain
  5. For some reason, this morning I found myself thinking about scams and hoaxes involving space exploration
  6. Mike the Mad Biologist has a good post on tenure
  7. At this point, the only things Mars One is likely to get into orbit are the wheels coming off of the bus
  8. If you're following the Mars One story, you need to read this
  9. Rocket Boosters
  10. First class tickets for ships that have sailed
  11. Annals of unintended consequences
  12. Enhanced prototype demonstrations
  13. Elmo Keep's other must-read on Mars One
  14. Another Mars One update
  15. The Mars conversation I'd like to be having
  16. Corporate PR vs. Beat Sweetening -- different but not that different
  17. I don't have time to discuss it today...
  18. More on the rise of PR
  19. A premature diagnosis of cost disease?
  20. You guys can write this post yourselves -- I'm tired
  21. More Martian musings – – reality shows and diet pills
  22. The Decline of Journalism and The Rise of Public Relations
  23. MOOCs and the Eugen Weber Paradox
  24. More on Mars One -- I expect this from ABC News but Sheldon?
  25. The Golden Age of PR
  26. Cartoon Metalogic
  27. For investors, all money isn't created equal
  28. Elegant theories and headless clowns -- more bad tech reporting from the New York Times
  29. Epidemiology Research
  30. Defining away concerns about charter school attrition
  31. Nimoy tribute on MeTV

February 2015

  1. I was about to slam Krugman for ignoring meaningful counter-examples...
  2. Bondholders as Stakeholders
  3. Quick Post: Financial Advice
  4. CBS joins the terrestrial superstation ranks
  5. Skimming the cream -- a history lesson from Charles Pierce
  6. Driverless cars may actually be getting closer
  7. Checking in with MovieBob
  8. I don't think you want to go with the "handful" defense
  9. The politics of that pile of old comics
  10. Secret Origins -- College Humor
  11. Repost -- Selection on Spinach*
  12. Repost -- Selection effects on steroids
  13. Estimands and targets of inference
  14. Netflix PR
  15. Analog recording without analogs
  16. Some points on Uber
  17. Why some policy changes should be slow and measured: a case study
  18. People knew smoking was a bad idea before 1964
  19. The end of public health?
  20. Intellectual Property
  21. Anti-militarism
  22. Before the age of the fan
  23. "Every Tech Commercial"

January 2015

  1. Electronic voting
  2. What's the big deal about an indictment?
  3. Great man theory of history: a counter example
  4. What if Google forgot about passwords?
  5. Infrastructure maintance and suburban development
  6. Double bonus false-equivalence points at the New York Times
  7. “Epidemiology and Biostatistics: competitive or complementary?”
  8. When a guy from College Humor does a TED talk... no, really
  9. The War on Data Continues
  10. “History of the memo”
  11. The Road to Bakersfield
  12. The perils of being overly tax aggressive
  13. Visualizing a different kind of data
  14. This could almost get me to start listening to the TED radio hour
  15. Plagiarism -- repeat offendees
  16. I'm a bit nervous about posting this at the teaching blog
  17. Crowdfunding research and the threshold of reportability
  18. Why I am rooting for Netflix (no, really)
  19. Patent Law and Progress
  20. There's a flying pig joke here somewhere
  21. The real challenge of infrastructure
  22. Innovative business models
  23. Charles Pierce shows how journalists should acknowledge a mistake
  24. Push, push, push...
  25. Happy New Year's -- Little Nemo grows up

2014 369

December 2014

  1. Some things to keep in mind if you see Annie on New Year's Day
  2. I'll explain why later...
  3. Robots, Railguns and Rube Goldberg
  4. The perils of bell curving
  5. Modern War
  6. Today's Principal Agent Problem
  7. Movies in the modern age
  8. Happy Holidays
  9. Incentives and proper incentive alignment: a never-ending series
  10. Sony's hypercube -- they keep finding new sides to cave in on
  11. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  12. Accountability is for little people continued -- more thoughts on the Sony hack
  13. I'm more comfortable blaming the victim a little when the victim has a market cap of twenty billion
  14. Checking in on the last next big thing
  15. A quick note on Kružno, official game of the village of Kružno*
  16. Perhaps claims that are almost certainly false should be fact-checked more thoroughly
  17. Infrastructure part 2
  18. Our annual Toys-for-Tots post
  19. Heroic bureaucrats and annoying foodies -- one reason so many reforms fail
  20. How do you move diagonally in hexagonal chess?
  21. Differential levels of technological progress
  22. The death of the comic book industry (circa 1970)
  23. I should really come back to this one
  24. Infrastructure
  25. Agon alert -- a post for board game geeks
  26. From commie to Randian and back in under four minute
  27. The challenge of discussing racism is finding definitions under which you and your friends don't qualify as racists.
  28. Mars One -- libertarian ideology, ddulite fantasies and the decline in journalistic standards
  29. A very specific definition of 'exclusive'
  30. False flags
  31. Remembering a couple of conservative college columnists
  32. What's wrong with the press part 10^100 -- people who use 'summer' as a verb

November 2014

  1. A recent exchange I had with my iPhone
  2. "As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]
  3. It's not a question of being too positive or negative but of being wrong in both directions
  4. New side project up at Amazon.
  5. This isn't about Ferguson, but it may be the most relevant thing you'll read on the subject.
  6. More bad behavior from your friendly neighborhood cable company
  7. Megan and Mark are in synch
  8. Thoughts on the coming storm
  9. Other than stem cells...
  10. "Duct tape and string"
  11. A subtle issue with standardized tests
  12. James Boyle's devastating take down of Robert Bork
  13. One of these days I'm going to do a post on genres as fitness landscapes
  14. What do stock buyback actually do?
  15. Fixing Common Core (or at least a small part thereof) over at the teaching blog
  16. James Kwak does a valuable service...
  17. Annals of heroic inference
  18. "The unbookable lesson"
  19. "I'm sorry, the card says 'MOOPS'.”
  20. Another side to the driverless car discussion
  21. The Good Wife makes some really interesting musical choices
  22. Speed boating
  23. "Deconstructing Common Core."
  24. This may have led to some bias in our sample
  25. Obviously the Onion is releasing news under different names
  26. Education reform and rent seeking -- textbook edition
  27. Con(firmation) artists and consistency -- inevitable David Brook edition
  28. A huge conflict of interest -- more from Meredith Broussard's Atlantic piece on textbook companies and standardized tests
  29. Failures in targeted marketing

October 2014

  1. Measurement
  2. Old story, new setting
  3. Mark says smart stuff
  4. This is the perfect October clip
  5. Graphs that make me nervous -- UPDATED
  6. Yes, a Surgeon General would come in handy right about now
  7. "—We Also Walk Dogs"
  8. Optimization and college enrollments
  9. Mark Evanier points out the fundamental contradiction in conservative complaints about Hollywood's "political correctness"
  10. Three films
  11. Have you had your flu shot yet?
  12. When journalists have an ethical obligation to roll their eyes...
  13. David Brooks, con(firmation) artist
  14. Another one for the West Coast Stat View Lexicon -- Farpotshket
  15. "The skeptics are wrong all the time"
  16. This is why I think nobody cares about the debt
  17. Discipline then and now
  18. Robert Heinlein's house of the future
  19. The myth of a data-driven Netflix
  20. Hexagonal Reversi
  21. Dick Cavett from 2013
  22. "Velocitas Eradico," Nazi mad scientists and other cool things a little research would have uncovered
  23. Sneetch class
  24. Education reform thoughts
  25. Non-compete agreements
  26. Assuming I didn't lose you at "TED Talk"
  27. Two Quotes
  28. Effect sizes: an often overlooked issue
  29. Selection on Spinach*
  30. XKCD -- write your own damned post
  31. Checking in with Cracked.com -- the website that's better than it has an right to be
  32. Step-back SAT/GRE problems -- trying something new at "You Do the Math"
  33. The New York Times' regularly scheduled sackcloth and ashes show
  34. XKCD Marriage
  35. “I can no longer accept cash in bags in a Pizza Hut parking lot” -- time to add Pennsylvania to the list
  36. Now they've got me defending the efficient market theorem...
  37. I'm going to let someone else bitch about the New York Times for a while
  38. Examining the rope – – Rotten Tomatoes edition
  39. Understanding Common Core-aligned math homework
  40. Two ways of looking at the achievement gap and how the reform debate often misses them both
  41. Limits of Market Forces: a never-ending saga
  42. The Thirty Million Words Initiative

September 2014

  1. Why a predictably breakable rope is better than an unbreakable rope
  2. The great buried lede of the Common Core debate
  3. "Marvel, Jack Kirby Heirs Settle Dispute Over Superhero Rights"
  4. Lots of red flags on this one
  5. Checking back in on "Netflix and the big swinging check syndrome"
  6. The Con(firmation) Artists of the New York Times
  7. What's so bad about working together?
  8. More shifting alliances -- TPM edition
  9. More self-defeating comment spam
  10. Mrs. Johnson's class is doing well. Let's call that a school
  11. And you have a problem with Joe Camel?
  12. Artificial intelligence, natural stupidity
  13. At least we can all agree that ad hominem and overly general attacks are bad
  14. Yes, it's bear-in-the-pool hot
  15. Wondering where the numbers come from -- Rotten Tomatoes
  16. Shifting alliances
  17. I'm sure it's not an original observation but
  18. Driverless Cars and Uneasy Riders
  19. Useful, fun and affordable -- one out of three ain't bad
  20. Another story that needs to be on our radar -- ECOT
  21. Jon Chait at his absolute best
  22. When your business model requires minimal competition
  23. I know I go on about ignoring Canada's education system
  24. Selection effects on steroids
  25. Support your local journalists
  26. I know I pick on Netflix a lot
  27. Job security
  28. The essential distinction between charter schools and charter school chains
  29. Context is important.
  30. Netflix and the big swinging check syndrome
  31. Netflix and the ethics of modern journalism

August 2014

  1. Barry Ritholtz on Market Timing, Wolf Richter on rigging the IPO market
  2. One of the most important aspects of Common Core gets relatively little attention
  3. Accountability at the LAUSD
  4. Buying a reputation
  5. A joke but not a hoax
  6. Victimology
  7. Yes, people are now talking about flipping schools
  8. Defining "bad teachers"
  9. Terrestrial Superstation Watch
  10. The Big Uneasy
  11. The Mulford Act
  12. Well, I'm glad it's not a dispute
  13. Off by just a quarter century
  14. Another excerpt from the upcoming ebook
  15. Addressing Pólya's list
  16. Checking in with two thousand and ten
  17. Sometimes you have to remind yourself that you're winning
  18. Can ConnCan con Conn?
  19. Pearl on Pólya
  20. A How to Solve It primer
  21. This is what a "danger to the staff" looks like
  22. 'Rigor' is the new 'wholesome.'
  23. Affinity Khan
  24. New Math: revisionist narrative watch
  25. Campbell's law revisited
  26. Two quotes

July 2014

  1. Common Core is for the common folk*
  2. Self-defeating comment spam of the day
  3. "Obviously, he's kept a very low profile"
  4. Management salary apologists need to work up some new material -- college edition
  5. This is simply remarkable
  6. Caveats
  7. Delving into the pros and cons of positive thinking over at You Do the Math
  8. More Michigan corruption and an LA-based observation
  9. How does one evaluate evidence in complex circumstances
  10. This not an outlier; this is a business model
  11. I started to go with "arsonists decry fires, call for more kerosene" but that didn't capture the full disconnect
  12. My notes on Khan Academy's SAT prep at You Do the Math
  13. One quote that tells you everything you need to about Florida's culture of charter school oversight
  14. Florida charters and the not-so-hidden costs of creative distruction
  15. When I say anyone can run a charter school in Florida...
  16. More on Florida and the looting phase of education reform
  17. A bit of context for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 conspiracy theories
  18. As we were saying about 'that's where they keep the money' -- more from the League of Women Voters
  19. The League of Women Voters weighs in on Florida's charter school scandals
  20. "We couldn't even afford one Mercedes Benz at Next Generation"
  21. Two Michigan stories
  22. Rural hospitals
  23. Thinking about incentives at You Do the Math
  24. More on the Jack Kirby copyright case
  25. Vergara transcripts
  26. Sometimes when you blow a something up, you just get rubble...
  27. Ray Fisman on Swedish school vouchers
  28. Formalizing Next-Big-Thingism
  29. A lesson about Twitter, TV cameras and life in the public eye
  30. Helsinki's 'mobility on demand' system and the travel-time landscape
  31. Unions
  32. I know there's a verb there somewhere
  33. Sometimes it really is just because "that's where they keep the money"
  34. A new post up at You Do the Math pits George Pólya against the education reform movement
  35. Watching a Variety editor pull back from the obvious on Netflix.
  36. A bit more background on the Jack Kirby IP case
  37. Spam
  38. "Are you sure I had a point A?" -- Ramesh Ponnuru's rhetorical misdirection
  39. An IP post for the Fourth of July
  40. Tenure and watchdogs
  41. If you don't believe me, ask Dilbert
  42. "How naïve I was."
  43. Yes, this is work related...
  44. Gee, I wonder which views she wasn't showing sufficient respect for?

June 2014

  1. On the bright side, they are supporting the press
  2. There's a Belleville/Bellevue joke here somewhere
  3. Great Moments in management consulting
  4. Warren Buffet and “the institutional imperative.”
  5. Autism and pesticides
  6. Warning: our IP thread is about to include some very geeky strands
  7. "We somehow took the education system that produced the individuals who put a man on the moon with technology less powerful than the phone in my pocket and characterized that education system as a failure using the word 'accountability.'"
  8. New slogan: "Don't be evil... That's what we have subsidiaries for"
  9. Framing of discussions is key
  10. Eli Broad's mixed messages*
  11. Brad DeLong has an interesting approach to the cost of college problem
  12. The LA Times' Steve Lopez on the defenestration of Stuart Magruder
  13. The rise and fall of "innovator"
  14. Putting aside the question of why Cantor lost
  15. Well, that didn't take long -- more on Vergara and the perils of legislating from the bench
  16. My ed reform ddulite study list
  17. Michael Hiltzik has perhaps the definitive summary so for of the California tenure ruling
  18. I'll be getting back to this when I'm less disgusted
  19. I don't think Tyler Cowen is right here, but I hope he is
  20. More on the California decision
  21. Understanding McKinsey
  22. An excellent take on Vergara v. California
  23. I'm not a lawyer...
  24. Two quotes presented without comment
  25. Accountability is for little people
  26. Does this make sense?
  27. Charter vs. Charter?
  28. Pranks as natural experiments
  29. Weekend blogging -- famous but underrated
  30. It never rains but pours
  31. Agricultural round-up
  32. The near miss effect -- what compulsive gamblers and tech reporters have in common
  33. "[N]o revenue, no patents, no trademarks, no manufacturing facilities, and no experience"
  34. Flawed analogy watch -- Comcast edition
  35. The sad part is this doesn't significantly lower my opinion of Matt Miller
  36. When it comes to technology journalism, reports of progress don't have to be directionally accurate

May 2014

  1. Weekend blogging: before the man with no name, there was...
  2. This time it's different
  3. Bookable, readily bookable, semi-bookable, ebookable
  4. What exactly are the stakes?
  5. Adding in base 8, counting by ten, and other reform fixations
  6. A good day for a recommendation
  7. Here's one for the Unqualified Offerings crowd...
  8. Weekend blogging -- Memorial Day Roger Corman Marathon
  9. Can nobody work out the incentives?
  10. A pretty good one-page intro to New Math
  11. Good grief! -- Sally Brown on New Math [Updated]
  12. The Aphorisms of Success
  13. France and jobs
  14. When "best practices" aren't -- sometimes imitating the successful is a really bad idea
  15. The two big assumptions behind 'best practices'
  16. Freakonomics
  17. I'd like for you all to take a look at something...
  18. Quoting Pólya quoting Shaw
  19. Weekend blogging -- Breaker Morant
  20. "Santa Ana winds blowin' hot from the north..."
  21. The SAT probably is unfair to the disadvantaged but not for the reasons you've been hearing
  22. A cyncial take
  23. Another one for the West Coast Stat Views lexicon: Jethro Models
  24. Yes, the House is still capable of bipartisan action...
  25. Weekend blogging -- brought to you by the Good Wife
  26. A musical introduction to the old "new math"
  27. Two more for the West Coast Stat Views lexicon: The Jar Jar Binks Paradox and Mathematical Anosognosia
  28. More futures past -- Highway edition
  29. A distributional question
  30. It may be a good thing that I missed this New York Times SAT article when it first came out...
  31. A Star Wars Day experiment
  32. Weekend blogging -- perhaps the strangest Donald Sterling tie-in you'll see this week
  33. "The Heart of Algebra"
  34. Symmetries and asymmetries of the fringes

April 2014

  1. I'm amazed that no one seems to have quoted George Bernard Shaw on Donald Sterling and the NAACP
  2. Problems that (nearly) rich people have -- college edition
  3. More on understanding the math but not the statistics
  4. Adam Smith is a deeper thinker than he is often given credit for
  5. Weekend blogging -- string pragmatists and legal meta-information, two more reasons I wish I could embed CBS clips
  6. With many standard stories, what gets left out is often the best part
  7. Why I criticize 538 more than Business Insider (mainly because I don't read Business Insider)
  8. Believe it or not, we've been talking about the nice Krugman -- some perspective on the 538 debate
  9. What do grades measure?
  10. What Nate Silver's critics are actually saying
  11. Good post on Vox about issues with ordinal variables
  12. Gauss, the fox who decided to be a hedgehog
  13. Zombie Alert
  14. Weekend blogging -- getting VORPal
  15. 538 and Vox
  16. The Hedgehog who thought he was a fox -- a cautionary tale
  17. The moment it became obvious that Nate Silver wasn't really listening to his critics
  18. Imagine an all-curling channel...
  19. "N.R.G. Pick-Ups are PURE DEXTROSE" -- junk food health claims through the years
  20. Degrees of separation – class and capital
  21. Causal inference is hard
  22. There are valid reasons to be concerned about the SAT, starting with its history
  23. Being a management consultant who does not suffer fools is like being an EMT who faints at the sight of blood

March 2014

  1. Perhaps we should add "opaque" to the list of journalists' vocabulary questions
  2. Weekend blogging -- due to cuts in arts programs, school orchestras have been forced to adopt extreme cost-cutting measures
  3. Fiscal prudence (a never ending saga)
  4. On SAT changes, The New York Times gets the effect right but the direction wrong
  5. The SAT and the penalty for NOT guessing
  6. Why I am optimistic about 538
  7. A tentative foray into e-publishing
  8. This is also true in Epidemiology
  9. SAT winners and losers
  10. Weekend blogging -- What kind of urban culture attracts the creative class? (answered in comic strip form)
  11. Question of the day
  12. Sometimes, the SAT you read about in the news doesn't look much like the actual SAT
  13. Professional Conduct
  14. Problems with modern reform paradigm
  15. When threads collide -- David Coleman vs. Prof. Feynman
  16. Differential growth in life expectancy?
  17. “The best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina”
  18. A rare RPG post
  19. Has this person ever worked in a large corporation?
  20. Texas versus California
  21. The second half is more remarkable
  22. This was both entertaining and thought-provoking
  23. Orthogonality and the SAT
  24. Negotiation
  25. More on inequality
  26. Data Intuition
  27. Open Data
  28. How did we miss this one?
  29. Biomedical Patents
  30. The frustrations of public health

February 2014

  1. Copyright
  2. Back (momentarily) on the terrestrial superstation beat part 1 -- GetTV
  3. Also true for Epidemiology
  4. Light posting
  5. The Outlier by the Bay
  6. Weekend blogging --Hard boiled (foreign edition)
  7. Context is everything
  8. Chip and Pin
  9. French inefficiency
  10. "The Wolf of Sesame Street"
  11. Felix and pensions
  12. More on the animosity of the education reform movement toward professional teachers
  13. Free markets: a continuing story
  14. Points to Ponder
  15. Feynman beautifully summarizes the problem with 'rigor' in primary and secondary math textbooks
  16. Jon Chait and Education reform
  17. "Judging Books by Their Covers" by Richard P. Feynman
  18. Silcon Valley collusion
  19. I think Matt should be sad
  20. “I didn’t like Nixon until Watergate”
  21. Talking Points Memo misrepresents the Washington Post's Answer Sheet
  22. Inequality
  23. Andrew Gelman opens a couple of cans of worms
  24. Legal uncertainties

January 2014

  1. Principles?
  2. DON'T SEND FLOWERS -- NOT DEAD YET
  3. 33 freaking degrees
  4. Are we becoming more tolerant of nepotism (and other perks of privilege)?
  5. Second order effects
  6. The often dubious "not" in not-for-profit
  7. An optimistic take on Netflix
  8. A slightly creepy letter from the CEO of Exxon Mobil
  9. A belated fact check of an old Felix Salmon Netflix post
  10. Felix Salmon hits a home run
  11. A challenge for the math historians in the audience
  12. The great pedagogical end run
  13. Catching up on the education beat
  14. The strange bedfellows of the education reform movement
  15. Weekend blogging -- Starring the writer...
  16. Before Michael Lewis, there was George Goodman and "The Money Game"
  17. Identity politics
  18. When Common Core is not Common Core (and more importantly, vice versa)

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