This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
Wrote a little about the growth in income inequality across the 50 states from 1979 to 2012 last week, and now here’s more, via CityLab. Check out this chart: Essentially, the states with the lowest real inequality — as measured by… Continue Reading
You may have heard about the Kemper County (MS) power plant — here’s the Wiki for it, for good measure — as it could be a major step forward in the climate change battle. Here’s the basic situation: the plant converts coal into… Continue Reading
Simple idea behind e-mail was to make our lives easier and more connected. It did that — you can fire off one line to a friend/business partner in Finland, and they can get it seconds later — but in the… Continue Reading
We all need to be riding buses more, and as such, we need cooler places to wait. But broadly, the bus stop hasn’t changed a lot in about five decades. Krumbach, Austria — which has a population of about 1,000… Continue Reading
Quick, semi-humorous story before we get into this: last October, General Mills came to my graduate school to recruit. They had set up interviews on a Thursday, and conducted probably 10-12 that day. It just so happened that the same… Continue Reading
Female pediatric neurosurgeon. Running for Senate as a Republican in Oregon. Gets the New York Times profile treatment. Then … two harassment/stalking charges come to light. Her past is now being called “weird” and people want to know if the Republicans still vet. Also… Continue Reading
Robert Moffitt is an economist at Johns Hopkins; most of his research is around the idea of taxes, health care, and welfare. Indeed, he has a huge study coming out in the academic journal Demography later this year/next year about the evolution… Continue Reading
Sports fans love to worry and assume a one-game sample size is the be-all and end-all. Straight up, it’s not. Case in point: the Miami Heat. Here’s the arc that has run through them this playoff season: they swept the Bobcats,… Continue Reading