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jake-head-shot.jpgJake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.

Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.

DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision-making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past.

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Razib and I on Bloggingheads.tv

Category: Genetics

Razib and I have a discussion up at Bloggingheads.tv about genetics and behavior as well as a brief discussion of neuroeconomics. Check it out below the fold:...

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Interesting Comparison: Economics and Relativity

Category: Economics

I caught this interesting sentence over at Marginal Revolution: as consumption approaches satiation, workers reduce their hours of work to prevent themselves from actually reaching satiation. More technically, as workers approach satiation, their labor supply curves start to "bend backwards."...

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Many economists have egg on their face

Category: Economics

Economic historian, Gregory Clark, details why times have changed for academic economists: The current recession has revealed the weaknesses in the structures of modern capitalism. But it also revealed as useless the mathematical contortions of academic economics. There is no...

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Vague and Curious, Geithner's Explanation of Bank Plan Resembles Post-modernity

Category: Economics

The Geithner Treasury plan for rescuing the banking system (more here) is getting panned on both sides of the aisle for being excessively vague. Megan McArdle: Tim Geithner reveals that the Treasury has a plan to fix the problems in...

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Stimulis: The Wonder Drug

Category: Economics

Check out this video by reason.tv below the fold....

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Destruction is not a good way to restart the economy

Category: Economics

This guy has clearly not read about the broken window fallacy: Times were so tough for window repairman Timothy Carl Klenke, police say, that he decided to take proactive measures: He armed himself with a slingshot and began cruising around...

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Barro on money multipliers and economist sniping

Category: Economics

Robert Barro is interviewed in The Atlantic about his views of the stimulus plan (see also a recent WSJ piece here). All in all, he is not a fan: The Atlantic: And I take it from the Wall Street Journal...

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Alternative Currencies as a Way to Increase Spending

Category: Economics

Here's an idea I had never heard about. The government could use an alternative currency that loses value over time to encourage spending. You would spend it like it was burning a hole in your pocket. Apparently there is historical...

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Towards a global currency?

Category: Economics

In an article reviewing the success of the Euro, the WSJ attributes at least some of the finiancial instability of recent months to currency volatility between the US and Europe....

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How much is a Nobel worth?

Category: Prizes

Nobel laureates on the board bring in the bacon when it is time to capitalize a firm: WHAT is a Nobel prize really worth? The market values it at $34m, according to a new NBER paper by Matthew Higgins, Paula...

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