Archive for 2014
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading Athena FF: Amma Asante’s Belle Revisits Jane Austen Through Black POV To watch On Hild, Female Readers of Genre Fiction, and Not Being Game of Thrones To read “Jonathan Ferrell ran towards police seeking help after a car accident and was given a hail of…” Frontier takes over Verizon’s network, complaints fall […]
I’ve got the ideas, but is it enough?
Scicurious thinks she’s not good enough at coming up with ideas to be a scientist. I’m really, really good at coming up with ideas, but I’m terrible at breaking them down into scienceable chunks and carrying them out. Maybe (hopefully) this is something my training will fix, but wouldn’t it be awesome if people like […]
What’s more important, intention or result?
“If we continue to talk about tight labor markets as if that is a truly evil phenomenon,” the New York Fed president brooded in a 2000 meeting transcript, “we are going to convince the American people that what we believe in is not price stability, which is for the good of everybody, but a differentiation […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading Target’s “Second-Rate” Fix for Hacking Victims May Leave Customers Vulnerable I haven’t even been able to successfully sign up for this yet. Daniel Moss: Cities Partner with Rural Communities to Protect Water Robert Reich: Why The Lousy Jobs Report Boosted Wall Street 15 Photos From The Massive Progressive Protest You Didn’t Hear […]
Do you have to wear clothes outside?
Then I recommend this blog. It’s a fantastic guide to field gear for geologists and other women who do a lot of fieldwork. It doesn’t get too technical, but tells you everything you need to know.
But competition drives costs down!
once economic decisions are pictured as being made sequentially, as in real life, ownership patterns turn out to evolve through time in highly specific ways?— and they systematically gravitate toward precisely the kinds of patterns that generate indeterminacy of factor prices. As a result, the central problem with marginal productivity theory that John Hicks recognized […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading Strange Bedfellows: The Rise of the Green Tea Coalition When people believe your individualist, capitalist claptrap, this is what happens Origins of Motordom: The Public Shaming of Jaywalkers Changing norms. Streets used to be for people. Grieving the Loss of the Life I Used to Have Illness and grief Death by data: […]