This blog is a collection of comments, reviews and rants on current events, reports, and miscellaneous writings. It's purpose is not to clarify but to question. As such, you will not find in-depth analyses here. Rather, I hope to point out interesting new ideas, blatant or hidden irrationalities, inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and perhaps some new uses for old words.
(un)Obtusifying Heroes
Bjørn Lomborg author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It" Web site and Wikipedia entry Quote: "Limiting ... debate to only two valid positions—for or against—makes a constructive discussion impossible." - WSJ, 9/15/2010
Economists everywhere if nothing else, adept at revealing the human choices that drive systems large and small, often at odds with the good-intentioned politicians
Political (and other) cartoonists with a drawing and 20 words or less, able to unobtusify current events
Recent Books Read
"Super Crunchers" by Ian Ayres how your behavior is influenced by the ubiquitousness of data about you
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