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Why TV will be around for a while 6 Jan 2013 | 06:33 am
Suppose you were predicting the future of media, politics, and culture in 1963. You would note that television was clearly the medium of the future, of the young. Radio was dying – unable to compete...
Grandpa, what’s a Republican? 5 Dec 2012 | 02:23 am
- Grandpa, what’s a Republican? - Republican? I haven’t heard that word in a long time. Where did you hear it? - It’s for a school project. We have to talk about something from old-people times, like ...
Republican political correctness 16 Aug 2012 | 01:11 pm
The latest mini-flap? Biden’s saying to a partly black audience that Republicans want to put them in chains by reversing Wall St reform. Team Romney has vigorously objected, but it’s hard to see why. ...
Civ game 236 years old 13 Jun 2012 | 06:15 am
I have been playing a game of Civilization for 236 years now, and have got somewhat stuck. My country is running out of money, and has a lot of citizens sitting around doing nothing. Production has f...
Lying and Economists 8 Jun 2012 | 01:28 pm
Heard behavioral economist Dan Ariely on the radio the other day. He was discussing economic research into when people cheat. In his study, they gave people 5 minutes to do some math problems and then...
Command and Control in Computer Strategy Games 20 May 2012 | 05:20 pm
The computer game Civilization starts you off quick and simple, with just one unit. But it gets more complex as you build more units, cities, and discover more of the world and other civilizations. ...
Plausible Bidenability 10 May 2012 | 06:29 pm
When Joe Biden came out for gay marriage, was he making a cunning move in the administration’s game of eleven-dimensional chess, or just blundering around? I don’t know, you don’t know, and even Bide...
The paradox of ranked-choice voting 24 Oct 2011 | 05:07 pm
Ranked-choice voting is a technical fix to voting problems. But it can often make matters worse. In ranked-choice voting, aka instant runoff voting, you rank the candidates in order. Then the candida...
xkcd and compound interest 8 Sep 2011 | 04:40 pm
Recently, xkcd had a strip saying compound interest is not that great – $1000 with 2% interest for 10 years only grows to $1219. But if we take the same $1000, and use a more optimistic 4% compounded...
2001-2011: Technology under Presidents Gore and Romney 28 Aug 2011 | 05:50 pm
Everyone remembers September 11th, 2001, when President Gore announced that America had been attacked. But few people knew at the time how drastically technology would change over the next ten years. ...
