Friday, March 28, 2014

Income Equality: A Search for Consequences by Eduardo Porter

Income Equality: A Search for Consequences by Eduardo Porter

How to Understand Georgia's 'Guns Everywhere' Law: Four Blunt Points by Paul M. Barrett

How to Understand Georgia's 'Guns Everywhere' Law: Four Blunt Points by Paul M. Barrett

Dress codes and Judge Kopf’s ‘dirty old man’ post by Eugene Volokh

Dress codes and Judge Kopf’s ‘dirty old man’ post by Eugene Volokh

Why African-Americans are moving back to the South by Carmen K. Sisson

Why African-Americans are moving back to the South by Carmen K. Sisson

Climate Forecast: Muting the Alarm by Matt Ridley

Climate Forecast: Muting the Alarm by Matt Ridley

How I translate children's books by Sarah Ardizzone

How I translate children's books by Sarah Ardizzone

How do Olympic gold medals influence longevity? by Tyler Cowen

How do Olympic gold medals influence longevity? by Tyler Cowen

This Is a Generic Brand Video from Dissolve Footage

This Is a Generic Brand Video from Dissolve Footage

A simple theory of college, elites, parties, women, and fraternities by Tyler Cowen

A simple theory of college, elites, parties, women, and fraternities by Tyler Cowen

College men really hate studying, love partying by Catherine Rampell

College men really hate studying, love partying by Catherine Rampell

College Affordability and Transparency Center website from Department of Education

College Affordability and Transparency Center website from Department of Education

The most expensive colleges in the country are art schools, not Ivies by Catherine Rampell

The most expensive colleges in the country are art schools, not Ivies by Catherine Rampell

Are American Teenagers Getting More Promiscuous? by Mona Chalabi

Are American Teenagers Getting More Promiscuous? by Mona Chalabi

Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Part-time, Freelance, Collaborative Economy by Roger Selbert

The Part-time, Freelance, Collaborative Economy by Roger Selbert

A French Surprise by Peter Berger

A French Surprise by Peter Berger

Literary City, Bookstore Desert by Julie Bosman

Literary City, Bookstore Desert by Julie Bosman

Biased sex ratios predict more promiscuity, polygamy and divorce in birds from Sheffield University

Biased sex ratios predict more promiscuity, polygamy and divorce in birds from Sheffield University

Fair Bosses Pay A Price by Andy Henion, Russell Johnson

Fair Bosses Pay A Price by Andy Henion, Russell Johnson

“Doggy Style” Doesn’t Mean What You May Think It Means by Jason Bittel

“Doggy Style” Doesn’t Mean What You May Think It Means by Jason Bittel

The Most and Least Healthy Counties in America by Olga Khazan

The Most and Least Healthy Counties in America by Olga Khazan

America's Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted by Rebecca J. Rosen

America's Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted by Rebecca J. Rosen

College ROI Report by Payscale

College ROI Report by Payscale

These U.S. Colleges and Majors Are the Biggest Waste of Money by Derek Thompson

These U.S. Colleges and Majors Are the Biggest Waste of Money by Derek Thompson

Which College—and Which Major—Will Make You Richest? by Derek Thompson

Which College—and Which Major—Will Make You Richest? by Derek Thompson

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Microwaves, Unfortunately, Aren't Going Away by Megan McArdle

Microwaves, Unfortunately, Aren't Going Away by Megan McArdle

Templates for gaining wisdom by Julian Baggini

Templates for gaining wisdom by Julian Baggini

‘The Tyranny of Experts’, by William Easterly; ‘The Idealist’, by Nina Munk Review by Andrew Jack

‘The Tyranny of Experts’, by William Easterly; ‘The Idealist’, by Nina Munk Review by Andrew Jack

Dave Barry Learns Everything You Need to Know About Being a Husband From Reading 50 Shades of Grey by Dave Barry

Dave Barry Learns Everything You Need to Know About Being a Husband From Reading 50 Shades of Grey by Dave Barry

From creationism to ESP: Why believers ignore science by Laura Miller

From creationism to ESP: Why believers ignore science by Laura Miller

Killing Conservative Books: The Shocking End Of A Publishing Gold Rush by McKay Coppins

Killing Conservative Books: The Shocking End Of A Publishing Gold Rush by McKay Coppins

Google, EBay and the Roots of Collusion by Megan McArdle

Google, EBay and the Roots of Collusion by Megan McArdle

Let Schools Teach Stupid Stuff (Like Creationism) by Nick Gillespie

Let Schools Teach Stupid Stuff (Like Creationism) by Nick Gillespie

Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design from Gallup

Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design from Gallup

The Subjects of New York Times Millennial Trend Stories Aren't Actually Millennials by Amanda Hess

The Subjects of New York Times Millennial Trend Stories Aren't Actually Millennials by Amanda Hess

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

"Ban Bossy": A Bad Remedy for a Fictional Problem by Cathy Young

"Ban Bossy": A Bad Remedy for a Fictional Problem by Cathy Young

Judging the Merits of a Media-Hyped ‘Collapse’ Study by Keith Kloor

Judging the Merits of a Media-Hyped ‘Collapse’ Study by Keith Kloor

Swedish Pop Mafia by Whet Moser

Swedish Pop Mafia by Whet Moser

Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word by Motoko Rich

Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word by Motoko Rich

The U.S. Cities Where the Poor Are Most Segregated From Everyone Else by Richard Florida

The U.S. Cities Where the Poor Are Most Segregated From Everyone Else by Richard Florida

Can Government Replicate Success? by Stuart M. Butler and David B. Mulhausen

Can Government Replicate Success? by Stuart M. Butler and David B. Mulhausen

Marriage, Parenthood, and Public Policy by Ron Haskins

Marriage, Parenthood, and Public Policy by Ron Haskins

Monday, March 24, 2014

Smoking Stays Stubbornly High Among the Poor by Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff

Smoking Stays Stubbornly High Among the Poor by Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff

Why the left is attacking Paul Ryan by Marc A. Thiessen

Why the left is attacking Paul Ryan by Marc A. Thiessen

China's Disastrous One-Child Policy by Alex B. Berezow

China's Disastrous One-Child Policy by Alex B. Berezow

Do People Vote With Their Feet for Economic Freedom? by Ilya Somin

Do People Vote With Their Feet for Economic Freedom? by Ilya Somin

What Americans choose when they vote with their feet by Ilya Somin

What Americans choose when they vote with their feet by Ilya Somin

Let the Children Play by Walter Russell Mead

Let the Children Play by Walter Russell Mead

The Wise Men by Mara Tchalakov

The Wise Men by Mara Tchalakov

Must Every YA Action Heroine Be Petite? by Julianne Ross

Must Every YA Action Heroine Be Petite? by Julianne Ross

The Wealthy-Hand-to-Mouth by Greg Kaplan, Giovanni Violante and Justin Weidner

The Wealthy-Hand-to-Mouth by Greg Kaplan, Giovanni Violante and Justin Weidner

More Distortion from the Ed Department on Racial Discipline Disparities by Heather Mac Donald

More Distortion from the Ed Department on Racial Discipline Disparities by Heather Mac Donald

Should we teach the habits of highly effective people? by Tyler Cowen

Should we teach the habits of highly effective people? by Tyler Cowen

Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees by Mark Ames

Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees by Mark Ames

A Look at Chuck Todd and Conspiratorial Media Incest by Erick Erickson

A Look at Chuck Todd and Conspiratorial Media Incest by Erick Erickson

Friday, March 21, 2014

Belgium bans a wide range of sexist speech by Eugene Volokh

Belgium bans a wide range of sexist speech by Eugene Volokh

Parsing Is Such Sweet Sorrow by Emma Pierson

Parsing Is Such Sweet Sorrow by Emma Pierson

Ryan, Obama and 'Racism': Two men use similar language and the left calls one a bigot from The Wall Street Journal

Ryan, Obama and 'Racism': Two men use similar language and the left calls one a bigot from The Wall Street Journal

Good Riddance, Fred Phelps by David Von Drehle

Good Riddance, Fred Phelps by David Von Drehle

Do Federal Social Programs Work? by David B. Muhlhausen

Do Federal Social Programs Work? by David B. Muhlhausen

No Fundamental Shift to Transit: Not Even a Shift by Wendell Cox

No Fundamental Shift to Transit: Not Even a Shift by Wendell Cox

Two Facts About College Dropouts by Robert VerBruggen

Two Facts About College Dropouts by Robert VerBruggen

It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria by Caroline Kitchens

It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria by Caroline Kitchens

Pre-K: Not So 'Empirically Validated' by Neal McCluskey

Pre-K: Not So 'Empirically Validated' by Neal McCluskey

Washington Post Falls For Left-Wing Fraud, Embarrasses Itself by John Hinderaker

Washington Post Falls For Left-Wing Fraud, Embarrasses Itself by John Hinderaker

Studying Contagious Yawning Might Help Us Build Better Societies by Jason G. Goldman

Studying Contagious Yawning Might Help Us Build Better Societies by Jason G. Goldman

Thursday, March 20, 2014

You Bet America Is Exceptional by Clive Crook

You Bet America Is Exceptional by Clive Crook

The Challenge of Pluralism by Ross Douthat

The Challenge of Pluralism by Ross Douthat

The problem with data journalism by Allison Schrager

The problem with data journalism by Allison Schrager

The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage by Michael S. Teitelbaum

The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage by Michael S. Teitelbaum

Preschool Really Is the Magic Bullet by Peter D. Salins

Preschool Really Is the Magic Bullet by Peter D. Salins

Intellectual Sprawl — The Importance of Constraints on Authors and Other Creators by Kent Anderson

Intellectual Sprawl — The Importance of Constraints on Authors and Other Creators by Kent Anderson

A new way of looking at public library engagement in America by Kathryn Zickuhr

A new way of looking at public library engagement in America by Kathryn Zickuhr

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Beautiful Minds: ‘The Boy Who Loved Math’ and ‘On a Beam of Light’ by Nate Silver

Beautiful Minds: ‘The Boy Who Loved Math’ and ‘On a Beam of Light’ by Nate Silver

Your Logical Fallacy Is website

Your Logical Fallacy Is website

Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists? by Quoctrung Bui

Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists? by Quoctrung Bui

The news about toilets — reported by a woman at the statistically oriented website FiveThirtyEight by Ann Althouse

The news about toilets — reported by a woman at the statistically oriented website FiveThirtyEight by Ann Althouse

Success Outside the Dress Code by Shirley S. Wang

Success Outside the Dress Code by Shirley S. Wang

'Rape Culture' Fraud--Unmasking a Delusion by KC Johnson

'Rape Culture' Fraud--Unmasking a Delusion by KC Johnson

Youth, wealth and education found to be risk factors for violent radicalization from Science Codex

Youth, wealth and education found to be risk factors for violent radicalization from Science Codex

2014 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning? by Tom Loveless

2014 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning? by Tom Loveless

Character Gaps and Social Mobility by Richard V. Reeves and Kimberly Howard

Character Gaps and Social Mobility by Richard V. Reeves and Kimberly Howard

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

John Mellencamp's Life Advice by Sean Woods

John Mellencamp's Life Advice by Sean Woods

We Are Googling the New York Times to Death by Megan McArdle

We Are Googling the New York Times to Death by Megan McArdle

Inequality As a Barrier to Growth? Invented Out of Thin Air by Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Inequality As a Barrier to Growth? Invented Out of Thin Air by Diana Furchtgott-Roth

The Girl Next Door: The Effect of Opposite Gender Friends on High School Achievement by Andrew J. Hill

The Girl Next Door: The Effect of Opposite Gender Friends on High School Achievement by Andrew J. Hill

Do Moms Who Work Less Have Healthier Babies? by Olga Khazan

Do Moms Who Work Less Have Healthier Babies? by Olga Khazan

What the Fox Knows by Nate Silver

What the Fox Knows by Nate Silver

Negotiated Out of a Job by Colleen Flaherty

Negotiated Out of a Job by Colleen Flaherty

Round-up of coverage on the academic negotiation heard round the 'net by Jaded PhD

Round-up of coverage on the academic negotiation heard round the 'net by Jaded PhD

Negotiating While Female: Sometimes It Does Hurt to Ask by Katy Waldman

Negotiating While Female: Sometimes It Does Hurt to Ask by Katy Waldman

Monday, March 17, 2014

ADHD Does Not Exist by Dr. Richard Saul

ADHD Does Not Exist by Dr. Richard Saul

Want Success? Choose the Right Parents by Clive Crook

Want Success? Choose the Right Parents by Clive Crook

My top tip: ignore everyone else’s top tips by Lucy Kellaway

My top tip: ignore everyone else’s top tips by Lucy Kellaway

The Great Skills Gap Myth by Aaron M. Renn

The Great Skills Gap Myth by Aaron M. Renn

Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap by Annie Lowreymarch

Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap by Annie Lowreymarch

Map: which sex receives more education worldwide? by Jonathan Taylor

Map: which sex receives more education worldwide? by Jonathan Taylor

Natural selection has altered the appearance of Europeans over the past 5,000 years from e! Science News

Natural selection has altered the appearance of Europeans over the past 5,000 years from e! Science News

Saturday, March 15, 2014

A Prison Policy Initiative briefing by Peter Wagner and Leah Sakala

A Prison Policy Initiative briefing by Peter Wagner and Leah Sakala

The Preferential President by Roger Berkowitz

The Preferential President by Roger Berkowitz

No, our kids aren't getting skinny by Abigail Saguy

No, our kids aren't getting skinny by Abigail Saguy

Worldwide, Many See Belief in God as Essential to Morality from Pew Research

Worldwide, Many See Belief in God as Essential to Morality from Pew Research

5 Ways The Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty by Shawn Regan

5 Ways The Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty by Shawn Regan

On the Mall: Nobody likes them except the customers by James Lileks

On the Mall: Nobody likes them except the customers by James Lileks

Reading to Have Read:Spritz doesn't strive to fix speed reading's flaws, but to transcend reading entirely by Ian Bogost

Reading to Have Read:Spritz doesn't strive to fix speed reading's flaws, but to transcend reading entirely by Ian Bogost

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality Rhetoric vs. Practice In Peter Novick’s That Noble Dream by Thomas L. Haskell

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality Rhetoric vs. Practice In Peter Novick’s That Noble Dream by Thomas L. Haskell

Economics: the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the world? by John Appleby

Economics: the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the world? by John Appleby

Just Right Inequality by Thomas B. Edsall

Just Right Inequality by Thomas B. Edsall

How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World by Alan Yu

How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World by Alan Yu

ACLU Report On Metadata Details Law Enforcement Abuse, Shows There's No Clear Cutoff Between Content And Data by Tim Cushing

ACLU Report On Metadata Details Law Enforcement Abuse, Shows There's No Clear Cutoff Between Content And Data by Tim Cushing

The Women at the Top by Marcia Angell

The Women at the Top by Marcia Angell

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

There is no gender gap in tech salaries by Cynthia Than

There is no gender gap in tech salaries by Cynthia Than

Why it’s not “Rain Woman” from The Economist

Why it’s not “Rain Woman” from The Economist

A Call for Help: What the Kitty Genovese story really means by Nicholas Lemann

A Call for Help: What the Kitty Genovese story really means by Nicholas Lemann

Are the Democrats getting too liberal? by Andrew Kohut

Are the Democrats getting too liberal? by Andrew Kohut

Megan McArdle's "The Up Side of Down" from The American Enterprise

Megan McArdle's "The Up Side of Down" from The American Enterprise

Money, Status, and the Ovulatory Cycle (politically incorrect paper of the month) by Tyler Cowen

Money, Status, and the Ovulatory Cycle (politically incorrect paper of the month) by Tyler Cowen

Do economic sanctions work? by Tyler Cowen

Do economic sanctions work? by Tyler Cowen