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Amazing new results on iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) by Bill Press (Numerical Recipes) and Freeman Dyson . There is something new u...

Super modern Wells Hall: They shot a video of me here at Beaumont Tower, site of the first agricultural science building in A...

Stanford researchers announce  genome sequencing of individual human sperm. Note the sequencing is, at this point, destructive of the sperm,...

I'll be moving from the University of Oregon to Michigan State University later this summer. It will be difficult to leave behind many...

Guess where I am now?  :-) Up in Michigan , by Ernest Hemingway. First published in  Three Stories and Ten Poems  (Summer 1923). ... Jim...

It's hard to imagine Murray reacting like this but he was a young man at the time (22 or 23) and, well, von Neumann is von Neumann. Tur...

I read the transcript of this debate, which included Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson and others, at the bookstore yesterday. Video available...

See 2021 update :  Review article prepared for the book Genomic Prediction of Complex Traits, Springer Nature series Methods in Molecular Bi...

The Freeh report on Penn State, Sandusky, Paterno and other criminals has been released, confirming my expectations. NYTimes : The most se...

Two math professors critique the Khan Academy in the video below. See also the excerpted Chronicle article. An earlier post on online lea...

You may have read that there is more genetic variation within major ethnic groups than between ethnic groups. That this precludes the possib...

I was playing a board game with the little guy and he was convinced he had developed a better method to roll the die. I asked him to check t...

Bounded rationality even for the most "sophisticated" capital allocators of all: pension funds, wealthy individuals, private wealt...

This Times story describes a cancer therapy made successful by whole genome sequencing of the patient and his cancer cells. Ultimately, RNA ...

Careful observation suggests it's mostly sociopaths at the top  ;-) The negative correlation between agreeableness and earnings ...

When I started my first company we rented a huge house in N. Berkeley (which we called the Geek House, or Geek Haus) and furnished it in ...

Chomsky on the limits of human intelligence. Although I don't agree completely with Chomsky, trying to explain the Higgs boson to non-p...

In preparation for a possible discovery announcement... The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo .

John Hennessey (Stanford president) and Salman Khan (Khan Academy) discuss higher education and digital technology. Learning or Credential...

Feynman once said there's  Plenty of room at the bottom  (nanotechnology). In the context of human genetics, it's clear there'...

How finance sucks human capital from more productive activities. FT Alphaville : ... a bloated financial sector can also suck in more t...

This is the physics building at Edinburgh University, where I gave a talk : A portrait of Peter Higgs : The opening reception for...

Financial Weaponry , my review of George Szpiro's Pricing the Future: Physics, Finance and the 300-year Journey to the Black–Scholes Equ...

The sun came out today!