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This week, a WTF pair of plots were published on some economic data, namely US retail sales and consumer confidence.
I have a theory about that...
Here is the Consumer Confidence plot at Calculated Risk
and here is the Retail Sales chart also from CR
Note that consumer confidence, which is…
Several new and spectacular cephalopod fossils from 95 million years ago have been found in Lebanon. "Spectacular" is not hyperbole — these specimens have wonderfully well-preserved soft parts, mineralized in fine-grained calcium phosphate, and you can see…well, take a look.
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During this year's TAM, I had the distinct pleasure of accompanying Steve Novella and Michael Shermer to debate an antivaccinationist at FreedomFest, a conservative/libertarian confab that was going on in Las Vegas at the same time as TAM. That antivaccinationist turned out to be Dr. Julian…
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We'll start off with Science and Art: Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA (NY Times article)
RPM at evolgen ponders about faculty members that blog. And now there are even journal editors that blog. In another post, RPM discusses the various phenotypes found in the typical…
Dead-on analysis, as usual. Speaking as someone in the media, anyone who is not participating/investing in online media and community building (blogs, etc.) is in deep, deep denial about where things are headed.
Spiegel had a Q&A in New Scientist recently, BTW, reiterating his lame self-defense. He's attempting to rehabilitate himself, I guess... with about as much success as one might expect.