Neurodiversity The NYT has a fairly skeptical article "Taking Mental Snapshots to Plumb Our Inner Selves" (which is sorely lacking in credulity-inducing color brain scan images.) It's about UNLV psychologist Russell T. Hurlburt who studies how people's minds job by having them wear a buzzer that goes off rand ...
"From Poverty to Progress" Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz have a new book From Poverty to Prosperity which David Brooks writes about in his NYT column:The success of an economy depends on its capacity to invent and embrace new protocols. Kling and Schulz use North’s phrase “adaptive efficiency” except they are truly ...
Why this is a large deal Terrific post through at the Wonk Room that wonderfully graphically sums up all the good that passing health concern reform will do:Here is a graphic representation of the selection lawmakers face:
The ostensible purpose of the post is to refute the nutty liberals led by Jane Hamsher who ...
svgweb - Project Hosting on Google Code SVG Web is a javascript library which provides SVG support on many browsers including IE FF and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target ~95% of the existing installed web base. Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1 SVG Animation (SMIL) Fonts Vide ...
A concise study in gas mileage or How to Cut Your Gas Mileage in Half The short answer: get a job that’s close to home.I have been tracking my car’s gas mileage for almost two full years. I do it using a site called Fuelly. Fuelly has a mobile web translation that is optimized for the iPhone. You bookmark it and just enter the relevant info each time you fill ...