Which Economist Are You? The Game from: December 22, 2015 at 08:33AM
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Competitive balance in football: Why the English Premier League has been turned upside down | The Economist
2015.12.21 – 17:37
Competitive balance in football: Why the English Premier League has been turned upside down | The Economist “In statistical terms, the correlation between pace and average shot distance was 0.35…. But during this season, that link seems to have been broken: some quick teams, like Leicester City or Newcastle United, are also among the league […]
What Should We Do About Inequality? | Growth Lab
2015.12.21 – 08:57
What Should We Do About Inequality? | Growth Lab
Why do scientists dismiss the possibility of cold fu…
2015.12.21 – 08:42
Why do scientists dismiss the possibility of cold fu…
Ricardo Hausmann on the Causes of Poverty and Inequality
2015.12.21 – 08:34
Ricardo Hausmann on the Causes of Poverty and Inequality from: December 21, 2015 at 08:32AM
The Grumpy Economist: Institutions and experience
2015.12.20 – 17:26
The Grumpy Economist: Institutions and experience
5 Reasons Why You Should Build A Small Business — Not A Start-up
2015.12.20 – 10:26
5 Reasons Why You Should Build A Small Business — Not A Start-up “A start-up unicorn wants to grow fast and grow big, take on investment and gain dominance. An on-line small business wants to to grow within clear limits, reach profitability and serve customers.”
Trying to simulate the human brain is a waste of energy
2015.12.18 – 15:40
Trying to simulate the human brain is a waste of energy “It’s as though we decided to build a Tardis immediately, on the basis of the knowledge we have about it now – call it the ‘Blue Box’ project. We know it’s blue, squarish, probably uses electricity for some purposes, makes a whooshy noise, travels […]
A Darwinian Explanation of the Mathusian Trap
2015.12.18 – 12:25
A Darwinian Explanation of the Mathusian Trap “Many luxuries are culture-specific. They are desired within a culture but not without. Group selection has no way to eliminate the growth of such luxuries because migration never responds to the difference of consumption in these items. Therefore, a distinction should be made between “universal luxury” and “provincial […]
Tweet by euqubud
2015.12.18 – 11:51
"For now I am with you, a man. But someday I will return home, thrust stones into my pockets and merge into the blue-green of infinity" — Patrick Dubuque (@euqubud) December 18, 2015 via https://twitter.com/euqubud
John Kerry’s Middle East Mission
2015.12.17 – 23:46
John Kerry’s Middle East Mission from: December 17, 2015 at 11:39PM
Tweet by TheCauldron
2015.12.17 – 10:29
For women who like sports, the social media reality is incredibly disturbing. https://t.co/gjoZKgKdCT | via @SInow | pic.twitter.com/oPaaEyc1tk — The Cauldron (@TheCauldron) December 17, 2015 via https://twitter.com/TheCauldron
The Very French Donald Trump Revolution
2015.12.17 – 09:57
The Very French Donald Trump Revolution On the one hand, he saw that the Americans, wishing to be left alone and to live their lives according to their own democratic wishes, had selected such men as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to lead them. The French, being a bloodthirsty mob, had quickly shunted aside Mirabeau […]
http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/chris-jones-nine-rules-for-creative-work/
2015.12.17 – 00:25
http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/chris-jones-nine-rules-for-creative-work/
Why we need to stop thinking so much about climate change
2015.12.16 – 16:52
Why we need to stop thinking so much about climate change from: December 16, 2015 at 04:47PM
Tweet by pomeranian99
2015.12.16 – 13:19
Superb data journalism: @FiveThirtyEight crunches complaints-against-police data, finds "bad apples" drive the most: https://t.co/b34R9BkonZ — Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) December 16, 2015 via https://twitter.com/pomeranian99
Tweet by baseballcrank
2015.12.16 – 08:01
I never noticed Linus doing this https://t.co/fa34f2MIJ4 — Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) December 16, 2015 via https://twitter.com/baseballcrank
Tweet by lachlan
2015.12.16 – 07:46
The Audubon Society responds to that absurd Vox piece: Nature Can't Exist Without Suffering—And We Can't Change That https://t.co/buUbrst5bi — Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) December 16, 2015 via https://twitter.com/lachlan