I love Zooborns as much as the next guy, don’t get me wrong, but why don’t full-grown cute and or awesome animals get any screen time these days? To redress this great wrong, and to give Joe a source of animal pictures to share before Skylar does, I present a recurring segment: Eat This, [...]
I no longer own a television, which is probably for the best. But sometimes I really want to sit back and be entertained. ABC offers their full lineup in high definition on the ABC Full Episode Player, which I’ve been using to keep up with Lost for a few months now. But [...]
From the life of Pompey (very end of [25]):
The people were furious at this suggestion [that Pompey should not be sole commander against the pirates] and, so it is said, raised such a shout that a raven which was flying over the forum was stunned by it and fell down into the crowd. [...]
Given how often I think: “if only I could go back and take linear algebra and multivariable calculus again given what I know now, think how much intuitive understanding I’d get out of it!” I have no excuse not to use Academic Earth to do precisely this. And it’s so much more fun that [...]
A college education is many things to many people: a chance to expand the mind, gain employable skills, make the transition to adulthood, have a good time. But let’s abstract for a moment. Taking a college course in subject X is widely considered a way to:
bring to me a certain level of [...]
Caesar and the pirates (Plutarch’s Caesar [1] and [2]):
[Caesar] stayed for a short time with the king and then on his voyage back was captured near the island of Pharmacusa by some of the pirates who even at that time controlled the seas with their larges fleets of ships and innumerable smaller craft.
First, when the [...]
One of my resolutions was to keep track of my reading on this blog, but I let things lapse for a while.
During this period of radio silence, I finished McCloskey’s Rhetoric of Economics. It was a really fun book, well-written and entertaining. To be honest, nothing she said struck me as especially heretical. [...]
A recent New York Times Op-Ed suggested a radical integration of academic departments. This seems a touch excessive to me, but I agree that there’s too much compartmentalization in academia today.
That being the case, I was excited to hear about a new book entitled Quantitative Models And Methods: A Tour of the Social Sciences. [...]
