The New Chicago School of Economics

Via Power and Control:
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago , another is from Tennessee , and the third is from Minnesota.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, [...]

Posted on March 6th, 2009 by pwyll
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Leading by example

It’s a damn shame that picture was published. Phelps is a great athlete and probably a good guy. I don’t want to see him hurt by a stupid mistake. Then again, maybe he won’t be.
Consider the young man hitting the spleef in the phote below. He went on to become [...]

Posted on February 1st, 2009 by pwyll
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Out and about

Erica Jong is off her meds again. I love the way she manages to name drop even in the throes of delirium.
Haven’t had enough? Then give Truth First a look.

Posted on October 31st, 2008 by pwyll
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Of Ants and Men

Edward Wilson:

You write that ants often share food among themselves. Why, and how did you find out?
Back in the fifties Tom Eisner, a colleague of mine, and I did I believe the first experiments tracing radio-active label­led sugar-water through colonies of ants. We were able to estimate the rate at which the food [...]

Posted on October 5th, 2008 by pwyll
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God’s eye

Hat tip to the Fresh Bilge blog, which I recently started reading. It introduced me to this amazing photograph, which deserves a wide audience.

Posted on April 20th, 2008 by pwyll
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J. A. Wheeler, RIP

Physicist John Archibald Wheeler has died at age 96. Richard Feynman, a student of Wheeler, is said to have remarked “Some people think Wheeler’s gotten crazy in his later years, but he’s always been crazy.” Considering the source, that was a great compliment.
If you ever get the chance, spend a few minutes looking at Gravitation, [...]

Posted on April 14th, 2008 by pwyll
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