Obama sells out to the domestic airline industry on European carbon fees.The point is not that Obama is someone particularly bad, just not better than the other residents at 1600 have be...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
I will confess that I did not really pay much attention to, nor have a very high opinion of, Martha Stewart until she was unjustly imprisoned in order to help advance Eliot Spitzer's career.Now I am rather fascinated by her and her empire of domesticity. Much of what she promotes strikes me as tremendous wastes of time, but, you know, one should not criticize the harmless leisure activities of others.In any case, the FT offers up an entertaining interview. I had no idea she is ...
Inspired by Distraction: Mind Wandering Facilitates Creative IncubationBenjamin Baird, Jonathan Smallwood, Michael D. Mrazek, ,Julia W. Y. Kam, Michael S. Franklin1 and Jonathan W. SchoolerPsychological Science October 2012 23(10): 1117–1122AbstractAlthough anecdotes that creative thoughts often arise when one is engaged in an unrelated train of thought date back thousands of years, empirical research has not yet investigated this potentially critical source of inspiration. We used an incubation paradigm to assess...
Friday, November 23, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
We saw Skyfall, the new Bond movie, on Tuesday night. It is definitely the best of the Daniel Craig Bond movies. Craig's version of Bond is much richer here - still rougher than all of the previous Bonds but also more human and more interesting. Amazing locations and music too. I think this one goes in the upper quartile of Bond movies.The NYT likes it too.Recommend...
I am reminded this morning of something that Bob Lucas told us during orientation for the graduate program in economics at Chicago. This is a paraphrase - it has been 27 years after all - but the gist was:"I really like working on Thanksgiving and Christmas because nobody calls."Happy Thanksgiving to a...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Back when I was working at U of Maryland and living at Chevy Chase, I would sometimes arrange my commute so that I could have lunch in Chinatown, as that was a natural place to switch from the red line to the green line.Often I would have Chinese food, but other times I would go to the Capital Q. I liked it both because the BBQ was good and because I felt like it functioned as a sort of temporary refuge for regular people trapped inside the beltway vortex.I am sad that it is gone.More generally, it is great that the area around Chinatown is doing...
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Michigan Daily columnist Melanie Kruvelis on the stigma of electoral abstention. Nice work.I will be voting on Tuesday, mainly because it is cheap here and a modestly entertaining cultural experience as well. I still quite vividly remember voting for the first time in the fall of 1980. I voted for John Anderson for president. Remember him? No, you probably don't. In any event, ahead of me in line was a stoner wearing an Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt. Realizing that the two of us would have the same influence on the election was an epiphany...
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
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