Thursday, September 24, 2015

On Overalls, Coveralls, and Jeans

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Freakonomics has a piece o n why suspenders are better than belts (belts are tourniquets) but belts still rule. As the son of a farmer wh...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Cryonics

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Technology Review has a takedown of the recent cryonics story.  An ancient Greek pointed out you never stepped in the same river twice and ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Robert Simon, Reston, VW, and Blacks

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When I was in the Army, I was stationed for a while at Ft. Belvoir, which is south of DC. I was there long enough that I used the money I...
Monday, September 21, 2015

The Turing Test and Humans

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The Turing  test is the famous  method for determining whether computers can think--can the computer's conversation with a person be so...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Fake Meat and GMO's

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Nicholas Kristof has a piece in the NYTimes describing the progress being made in developing edible fake meat.  It sounds promising.  I...
Friday, September 18, 2015

What's Wrong with the IG's and GAO?

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That's the question I take away from reading Megan McArdle's post on the IG report on the Obamacare website software fiasco. She ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Cage-Free Eggs and the End of the Nest Egg

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McDonald's made news by promising to move to cage-free eggs within 10 years. I did a Google image search and I'm damned if I can ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Sherrod Settles Lawsuit

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According to this post at The Rural Blog.

The Paradox of Median Income

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From the White House Blog, median income for family households rose in 2014, median income for nonfamily households rose in 2014, and media...

Drezner on Surgeons

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"I love my father [a surgeon] dearly, but if he ever were appointed czar, I would have no choice but to lead the partisan resistance....