Old-world skillz

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I do not know how Michael Leddy finds so many great items for his Orange Crate Art blog. I was struck by his link to this column by The Providence Journal's Mark Pantinkin on certain specialized life skills we (of a certain generation) accrued growing ...

Assorted links

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

"A comparison of the 2008 population — using data from a variety of sources — with the first census in 1881 shows that the number of Cocks has shrunk by 75 per cent..." Read the rest for the context. How to e-mail a professor. They may not notice, but then again, ...

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Doomsday for 2009 is ... Saturday. Mary Ellen Bates says goodbye to several Google apps, and ponders Microsoft's persistent relevance. I'll miss Google Notebook, myself. Better ways to run a workshop. And some damn fine YouTube examples of Patrick McGoohan at work. Chris Blattman summarizes Rapture indicators from ...

Links 22-May-08

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

This paper studies the CVs of assistant professors of economics at several American universities and finds "evidence of a strong brain drain" and a "predominance of empirical work." If you searched the CVs of assistant professors at top-10 IS/LS schools, what do you think you'd find? [via Marginal Revolution] Michael Leddy ...