Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Evans, Goldstein, Jakiela, O’Sullivan, Montalvão, & Ozier, once again do a great job boiling down
How many decimals does NASA use to make it’s calculations? This was a question posed to NASA engineers. The full answer is amazing. We can
Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous
I had my third-year review in the spring of 2013, and it was rough. I wasn’t publishing enough and my future at the University of
Americans have been criminalizing psychoactive substances since San Francisco’s anti-opium law of 1875, but it was Ehrlichman’s boss, Richard Nixon, who declared the first “war
I love this. Three researchers picked 20 top biomedical journals and searched all titles and abstracts since 1975 for positive, negative, neutral, and random words.
Andrew Grove died yesterday. From the New York Times obituary, the former Intel engineer and chief was “chosen Man of the Year by Time magazine
My colleague Jeff Lax answers questions on filling the Supreme Court vacancy Retraction watch (in PLOS One): “Following publication, readers raised concerns about language in
Via Ken Opalo and Stéphane Helleringer this reportedly from a Prussian spy who visited Karl Marx in the 1850s: In private life he is an
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Happy St. Patrick’s day, how about some qualitative macroeconomic research explaining Irish attitudes towards austerity?
Back in 1991, Duke finished second to Democrat Edwin Edwards in the state’s multiparty primary. In the ensuing run-off between Duke and Edwards, GOP incumbent Buddy Roemer—the
The madness of elite airline status (first world 1% problems) Should English be the only official language of the EU? Tim Burton confirms Beetlejuice 2
New Order’s “Blue Monday” played with obsolete 1930s instruments (link) And then there is this wooden hand-cranked instrument that runs on 2,000 marbles. Two “how
The fifth annual VancouFur convention, in which people dress up as fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics, was held at the same
Following psychology’s current “repligate” and econ’s Worm Wars, I wrote a guide to how to read “debunking” news stories (including the Wu-Tang Clan rule). You
I give up. A few days ago I posted about the psychology replication study that didn’t replicate. Apparently the replication of the replication is quite
Governments play a central role in facilitating economic development. Yet while economists have long emphasized the importance of government quality, historically they have paid less
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Tina Rosenberg asks in the New York Times Fixes column why the development world is so
Isn’t it ironic? A recent article by the Open Science Collaboration (a group of 270 coauthors) gained considerable academic and public attention due to its sensational
I think I can hear the armies of angry Tiger moms amassing. A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in
That is Joshua Browder, who made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets in the UK. Since laws are publicly available,
