My friend Reihan Salam, the svengali behind The American Scene, is on blogginghead.tv talking about the primary races. Reihan often has a high signal to noise ratio in large part because of his low analysis to data ratio.1 He's chatting with Chris Hayes, who wrote up a really interesting piece on heterodox economics in The Nation this spring. Check it out.
1 - That is, unlike many people he is a compulsive collector of data.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Environmental Science/Studies in Review, Volume 1
Here is a rundown of some recent pieces of note w/r/t environment, science, and technology -- specifically, a few on atrazine and hermaphroditic friogs, and then a few on Big Organic (farming and planting and eating and such).
From the August issue…
There is a great blogginghead.tv conversation up between two of my favorite bloggers, Megan McArdle and Daniel Drezner.
They discuss whether academics are bitter. McArdle argues that the labor market makes their lives very unfortunate. Drezner argues that the issue is complicated by the fact…
I spend a lot of time complaining about the ineptitude of the science world when it comes to mass communication and function in mainstream society. But all of a sudden here is this Science Debate 2008 effort that is being run with shockingly good style and savvy. Who in the world is behind such a…
Floyd Landis, most recent winner of the Tour de France, has tested positive for testosterone use:
Landis denied cheating and said he has no idea what may have caused his positive test for high testosterone following the Tour's 17th stage, where he made his comeback charge last week. But he aims to…