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"The Tsarnaev brothers offer a grisly story of American immigration and integration, and Danny offers another ..." New Yorker : ....

Jonathan Wai sends me his latest paper, which reveals (click figure below) that ~ 40% or more of US Fortune 500 CEOs, billionaires, federal ...

Part of the potential of online education is to break the "credentialing chokehold" of traditional universities. But in order f...

Will they discover a "general factor" for dog intelligence? Anyone want to make a prediction? See also here . NYTimes : ... ...

MMA training regimens are among the most advanced in all of sports today. See also Jon Jones, phenom . Anyone who has watched Jones fi...

Rather than tease my friends in economics I'll just refer you, e.g., to this blog post by Krugman and this thread on Econ Job Rumors. ...

I recommend this  blog post  (The Differentialist) by Timothy Bates of the University of Edinburgh. (I met Tim there at last year's Beh...

Economics Shapes Science  by Paula Stephan. At a time when science is seen as an engine of economic growth, Paula Stephan brings a keen ...

Raghu Parasarathy , a biophysicist at U Oregon, and my correspondent in this previous post on faculty blogging, has decided to try it out...

Stephen Smale  gave a lecture today in the MSU math department, on protein binding and folding. He mainly presented the mathematical aspects...

Sounds nutty, but what the heck! Don't blame me if I lose my temper or become violent -- my digit ratio made me do it! ;-) Finger ...

A colleague responds to my earlier post Blogging professors , on how universities might encourage more faculty blogging. What I had in min...

I recall reading this quote (or something similar) when Bezos was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1999. Jeff Bezos : Yeah. So, I we...

When I first started blogging in 2004, I thought it would be only a matter of a few years before a significant fraction -- say 10-30% -- of ...

I was at the IBM campus in Austin yesterday for some meetings. No sign of the Singularity just yet ;-) Here's a talk by Man...

As a punishment, Sisyphus was made to roll a huge boulder up a steep hill. Before he could reach the top, however, the massive stone would a...

Some time ago I posted on a striking claim of genetic prediction for autism risk that appeared in Nature Molecular Psychiatry: Predicting...

Recently I looked at some national-level data for university researchers in physics, chemistry, EE, molecular biology and zoology. The dat...

Special issue of Science. If genomic methods (e.g., genotyping of tumor cells to identify most promising treatment) fulfill their promise...

So far I'm enjoying it very much. Amazing that he is 87 years old . Amazon reviews here . “Forgive him anything, he writes like an a...

I've been teaching my kids how to swim, and started showing them some technique and training videos from YouTube. Eventually I came acro...

David Lubinski sent me a copy of his latest paper from a longitudinal study of individuals who scored at the 1 in 10k level (normalized by a...

In a 2010 post, I wrote: Machines and bilingualism : I had a terrifying thought the other day. I would guess that at 90 percent confidence...

I'll be on live (I think) for an hour starting at 11 AM eastern. If you dial in, you might be able to ask me a question on the air :-) ...

I haven't read this yet but it looks quite interesting. Koxinga is pretty well known in Taiwan and China, of course (see picture at b...