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Robert Wald reviews the 2010 book Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality , based on meetings at Oxford and at the Perimeter Ins...

Megan McCardle on her 10 year reunion at Chicago's Booth School of Business. The Atlantic : ... For my summer 2000 internship at Merrill...

I found this econtalk podcast very interesting. The comments are also good. We Americans are very lucky to have inherited a high trust socie...

Good manufacturing jobs that remain in the US will require significant skills, such as the ability to run capital intensive equipment. Unfor...

Gracie Breakdown of UFC 142, leading off with the Rousimar Palhares heel hook finish. Back in the day when grappling and BJJ were still f...

I previously recommended the podcast New Books in History , hosted by University of Iowa historian Marshall Poe. I noticed recently that the...

From internet sensation to SNL last night. Call me crazy, but Video Games is a great song and could become part of the indie pop canon --...

This very interesting study had access to comprehensive data ranging from Duke admissions office evaluations of applicants, to students'...

[[ Embedded version no longer works, but follow link below to view ]] Excellent colloquium by James Crow (who passed away recently) emph...

The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability Or Zuk, Eliana Hechter, Shamil R. Sunyaev, and Eric S....

The NYTimes ran a nice profile of Broad Institute director Eric Lander a few days ago. Interestingly, the article emphasizes several factor...

A colleague recommended this beautifully written Quora answer concerning the nature of mathematical thinking. I recommend reading it in it...

This recent paper gives a sense of the current state of the art in quantitative genetics. Height is one of the easiest phenotypes to measure...

Duke researcher Jonathan Wai interviewed me for his Psychology Today blog, Finding the Next Einstein . Below are my answers to two of his q...

Linus said it best (Luke 2.14) in A Charlie Brown Christmas: And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping wat...

We went for a walk today after lunch and I took these photos of the Sheraton Dameisha.

This post addresses comments by Sineruse, David Versace, and others on earlier threads here , here and here . I've been pretty busy d...

BGI coffee room. I charged the espresso on Chris Chang's badge. Film crew takes in a technical discussion. Rare mutations, pseudogenes a...

Greetings from Southern China. We're at about the same latitude as Hawaii, so the weather is quite temperate even in December. Dutch doc...

Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. Almost every journalist who has talked to me about this issue asks "Gee, how long has this...

In the past few years we have seen a large influx of undergraduate students from China. Since UO non-resident tuition is about $20k per annu...

Hmm... pricing in a 30-50% chance of huge vol due to euro credit crisis? If you're sure it's going to happen, some 6-12 month vol sw...

"The revelation can occur at any time. A poet never rests. He's always working, even when he dreams. Besides, the life of a w...

More on elitism and credentialism in an article by Editor in Chief Robert Teitelman at The Deal. Related posts . The cognitive-phonetic dis...