Sunrise Over Diamondhead Crater

November 7, 2011

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November 3, 2011

Light posting ahead. D and I will be on vacation / proper-honeymoon-after-five-years for the next couple of weeks. Aloha! Tweet

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Define “College” First

November 2, 2011

Dave Clary requests my response to Alex Tabarrok’s essay “College Has Been Oversold” in Marginal Revolution. I think this is the article’s central thesis (especially since it is the last paragraph): College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don’t help them very [...]

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It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, Google (Reader)

November 1, 2011

Yesterday, Google released the overhaul of its feedreader, Reader, which features increased integration with Google’s relatively new answer to Facebook, Google+. If you like auto-spamming your Facebook or Google+ timeline with links to articles minus context or, in general, do not think of the internet as a space in which to share information in a [...]

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Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2011

Pinned to the wall outside my office today and likely to stay up there until the cross-plots I’m generating behave. (From Kristina Killgrove on Google+) Tweet

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Halloween 2011: Coastline Retreat Is Scary, Kids!

October 29, 2011

It started with me walking across the family room in a nude bathing suit and D looking up from his laptop with a “What the …” “I’ll be right back,” I said, putting on flip flops before walking into the frigid-by-Texas-drought-standards garage. “There’s some makeup in the car that I need.” And D got that [...]

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Happy Deepavali

October 26, 2011

Apropos of the reason for this Hindu festival: Questions Lit Up, in which Pratap Bhanu Mehta takes on the Delhi University ban on teaching A.K. Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana and chides the Indian left and right for hijacking the culture for political gain. … The Right commits the mistake of assimilating all tradition to [...]

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Donors Choose And ROCK!

October 25, 2011

The 2011 Science Bloggers for Students online charity challenge was once again a smashing success thanks to all of you who donated. The overall drive brought in more than $51,000 from 698 people. Ocean and Geobloggers brought in around $3100 of that money to which you guys contributed $585 $645! In order of donation date, [...]

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Get Your Energy Soundbites In Order, Folks

October 25, 2011

Before you read on, consider this: Much like with patients and doctors in the case of the healthcare debate, neither folks who have to live in the filth nor those who actually work in the energy industry get a say in the policymaking. In other words, this conversation is held at all the wrong levels. [...]

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October 21, 2011

ATTENTION SCIENCE LOVERS OF EARTH Today is the FINAL day to donate to the DonorsChoose Science Bloggers For Students online charity challenge that helps high-poverty science and mathematics classrooms in need. Please donate via my giving page. Science rocks! Don’t take it for granite! Regular posts continue below. Tweet

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