Thursday, January 31, 2013

Assorted Links

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180 Current trends in inequality in Britain and Worldwide Forget the Placebo Effect: It’s the ‘Care Effect’ That Matters  (via Patricia ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Out for vacation!

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Dear readers, I will be out of office for a couple of days with restricted access to emails. I've scheduled a few posts to run in the m...

Pop-Up Economics, by Tim Harford

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Tim Harford  has a new radio series on the BBC called Pop-Up Economics . It's highly recommended! The next epidose will talk a...

Average Traffic Density of US Highways (1944)

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Eric Fischer has found this awesome map showing the predicted average traffic density of US highways in 1944 (via Tim De Chant ). Since t...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Off-topic: A regular day of traffic in Russia

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(via uhull )

Quote of the Day

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"The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones" (it's hard to find who said it first)
Monday, January 28, 2013

How Much Does a Good Boss Really Matter?

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A new podcast by S. Dubner talking about this working paper: " The Value of Bosses ". If you're curious about the answer bu...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

How the U.S. lost out on iPhone Work

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@cduhigg and @KeithBradsher for the NYT: "Another critical advantage for Apple was that China provided engineers at a scale the Un...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Assorted Links

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Heading for success: or how not to title your paper  (via  David Levinson ) The 10 largest African cities in 2013 PAA 2013 Preliminary P...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Replay: World Population Distribution Map

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Tired with those traditional World Population Distribution Maps ? Bill Rankin came up with this creative way to understand population di...