July 2008
210 posts
Cornell Chronicle: Open access doesn't mean more... →
Pew Research - Cell Phones and the 2008 Vote: An... →
The overall estimate of voter presidential preference is modestly affected by whether or not the cell phone respondents are included.
“I have an invisible adviser, but I have decided to represent myself.”
– Radovan Karadzic in the Hague. Maybe he also actually belived in the new age-mumbo jumbo, he practised in Belgrad?
Fuck af, Cision →
clausd:
Lad være med at bruge mig som spam target, narrøve.
A minor incident in the Danish blogosphere - and boy, have people been p€%%#d off.
Ahem... →
Why speaking a second foreign language is a good...
Via LanguageLog
Last September a group of women spent a weekend at Foxwood’s Casino to celebrate the 40th birthdays of three of their party. Two casino workers made vulgar comments about them in Spanish, thinking that they would not understand. One did and complained to the casino. One of the casino workers was fired as a result and the women received an apology and free food, drink, and...
EurekAlert - Factors that influence whether people... →
How men and women define sexual harassment is related to the degree to which they view sexual harassment rules as ambiguous and threatening to the workplace.
Hamlet- Facebook News Feed Addition
rocketboom:
Horatio thinks he saw a ghost.
Hamlet thinks it’s annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies.
The king thinks Hamlet’s annoying.
Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better.
Hamlet’s father is now a zombie.
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The king poked the queen.
The queen poked the king back.
Hamlet and the queen are no longer friends.
Marcellus is pretty sure something’s...
With judges like these, do you need criminals? →
Russia is the new Italy.
Watchtravors:
Mean Tuba Player via Today’s BIG Thing
Well, you only have the fun you make for yourself.
I like the "Get a Life" application →
“John McCain, by contrast, is physically constrained by his wartime wounds, wary...”
– BBC covering the US presidential election. The Beach Boys are now officially uncool.
The problem with Wikipedia (and the internet in... →
It all began with a discussion of stereotypes and ended here.
When we consider the murder rate, Midsomer looks more like El Salvador than the gentle English countryside.
And by the way, I suspect that Swedish TV just screened the Christmas special. Weird.
Apple's next-gen Macs have something special under... →
mountchuck:
A new generation of personal computers on the way from Apple Inc. may sport some of the most significant architectural changes since the Mac maker made the jump from PowerPC processors to those…
As the first comment on Digg says: Let the rampant speculation begin!
:-D
The WTO failure in light of the GATT’s history |... →
The WTO’s Doha Round talks failed. This column draws lessons from a new book on the history of the WTO’s predecessor, the GATT…. The key ingredient is political leadership, which is evidently…
Watchrocketboom:
A camel, carrying a car, on it’s back, up a hill, in Afghanistan.
Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Afghanistan is one strange country.
Defining Political Correctness and Its Non-Impact... →
the study finds that a critical mass of politically incorrect professors is doing quite well in securing jobs at the most prestigious universities in the United States,
RAND | News Release | U.S. Should Rethink "War On... →
RAND | Monographs | How Terrorist Groups End:... →
Flickrbits →
“Maybe putting a really awful map like this in a TV studio background is a...”
– Strange Maps has been watching botched infomercials.
Not worth reblogging, but.
topherchris:
I would have beat the snot out of the little bastard for swinging at me, Autism or not.
That’s a personal decision, of course. That one can feel the need to kick a kid’s ass because he’s freaking out due to being autistic or for any other reason is fucked up as far as I’m concerned.
Bear hug the kid, hold his arms down, move away… options galore. Or sure, beat the snot out of...
“Paul Krugman was observing that even though the political coverage is the part...”
– via Matthew Yglesias, kottle.org (via rocketboom)
“The consensus? A big win for Obama, unless he loses.”
– Phil Klinkner reviews political scientists’ attempt at predicting the US presidential election.
“Web 2.0 makes it easier to do things, but not easier to do them well.”
– Robert X. Cringely
Aesthetics of Catastrophe | Public Culture →
“Schon oft habe ich mich gefragt, warum es außerhalb des Sports keine...”
– Selim Özdogan in Die Zeit.
The biggest threats to air traffic: Islamist... →
Educational inequality persistence: Evidence from... →
This column marshals new empirical evidence on the persistence of educational attainment and its role in intergenerational transmission of social economic status.
Global sourcing: Evidence from French firms | vox →
But how, why, and where do firms outsource parts of their production? This column presents empirical evidence that tests theoretical models of global sourcing
Undoing the Irish property boom | vox →
This column explains how the âCeltic Tigerâ shifted from a converging growth path to an unsustainable property boom. Tough adjustments in wages, taxation and public expenditure will be necessary…
How can we end poverty? The determinants of... →
A major academic and policy effort should, therefore, be targeted at investigating how optimal political arrangements differ across countries at different stages of development
Gunnar Ekeving - Järnvägsstationer i Malmö →
Henry Mintzberg - America’s Scorched Earth... →
Paradoxically, one indicator that has been improving steadily in the US â productivity â may be the clearest sign of the problem.
Right.... →
Study: No gender differences in math performance -... →
To carry out its query, the team acquired math scores from state exams now mandated annually under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), along with detailed statistics on test takers, including gender, grade…
Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why... →
The hope of getting out of poverty encourages people to continue to buy tickets, even though their chances of stumbling upon a life-changing windfall are nearly impossibly slim
Barack Obama | Obama Road Blog: Remarks of Senator... →
Senator Obama delivered the following remarks in Berlin, Germany.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 07/24/2008 | Would... →
European political systems also function differently than the American-style primaries. In Europe, tight circles of party insiders, who often attend the same elite schools, choose the national…