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Visiting Brazil? Skip the Amazon and Head to the Pantanal

Posted in Life, Nature, tagged , , on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Posting has been light in recent weeks thanks to a two-week sojourn in Brazil and a week recovering therefrom. I mostly turned off my inner economist to get in touch with my inner Darwin. So I have only a handful of economic observations: After arriving in Rio, the car that picked us up was made in China, fueled [...]

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What Happens When a High-Profile Undocumented Immigrant Reveals Himself?

Posted in Life, tagged on June 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Judging by my Twitter feed, the most captivating story of the day is Jose Antonio Vargas’s account, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” Writing in the NYT Magazine, Vargas recounts how his mother sent him to the United States when he was 12 and how, in the subsequent years, he built a career as a [...]

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Misleading Graphics, Not So Honest Tea Edition

Posted in Data, Life, tagged on June 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Are you smarter than Honest Tea, the upstart purveyor of natural (and yummy) teas? To see, please compare the sizes of the yellow and black coffee cups: How big do you think the yellow cup is relative to the black one? About 1/8 the size? About 1/4? Or about 1/2? Take your time. Think about it. [...]

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Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

Posted in Life, Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Centers for Disease Control offers emergency preparedness tips with a sense of humor: So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the [...]

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Incentives and Property Rights, Dead Raccoon Edition

Posted in Life, Nature, tagged , , , on May 9, 2011 | 9 Comments »

It seems like only yesterday that I met Rocky. Probably because it was yesterday. Our smallest cat Caramel was staring intently upward. Following his gaze, I spied Rocky tucked between two branches high in the silver maple near our deck. Rocky didn’t look well. Raccoons aren’t usually out and about at 3:00 on a sunny [...]

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The Attention Deficit Society

Posted in Internet, Life, Technology, tagged , on May 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »

One highlight of the Milken Global Conference was an excellent panel discussion of how new communication technologies are changing the way that people think and interact. Moderated by the amusing Dennis Kneale of Fox Business, the panelists were: Nicholas Carr, Author, “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” Cathy Davidson, Ruth F. [...]

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Dilbert Explores the Limits of Bargaining

Posted in Life, tagged on March 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »

P.S. Yes, I will return to posting words, not just comics, in the near future. Unless, of course, someone would like to pay me not to …

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Mathematically Annoying Advertising

Posted in Life, tagged on March 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »

My favorite online cartoonist is xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Today’s entry reveals xkcd’s inner economist: All of these drive me nuts.

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From Timid Teenagers to Overbearing Parents in Just Six Weeks

Posted in Life, tagged on February 13, 2011 | 9 Comments »

In early January, Esther and I discovered a mother cat and two kittens living under our deck. We’d been petless for several years, but after months of discussion had still not settled on what our next pet should be.  (There is a moral here about the burden of choice, procrastination, and other ideas in behavioral [...]

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No, I Am Not a Member of Anyone’s Kitchen Cabinet

Posted in Life, Politics on December 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

That is all, thanks.

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