Monthly Archives: December 2010

News Reporting, Data Illiteracy, and the Failure of Our ‘Elite’ Educational System

Posted on December 3, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Why do reporters, many of whom graduated from good schools, require “remedial math training?”
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Posted in Education, News Media | 7 Comments

Links 12/2/10

Posted on December 2, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Happy Thursday! Better late than never.
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Posted in Lotsa Links | 1 Comment

How Many in Foreclosure Made All Their Payments (and Are Still in Foreclosure)

Posted on December 2, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

This is not productive economic activity. It’s not even rent extraction, it’s flat-out theft.
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Posted in Bidness, Big Shitpile, Housing | 8 Comments

Inconvenient Truths, The Disappeared Party, and Wikileaks

Posted on December 2, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

The underlying issue with Wikileaks is that besides the concealing party (e.g., the government) and the obscured party (e.g., the public) there is usually a ‘disappeared’ third party–the subject of the concealment.
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Posted in Bidness, Civil Liberties, Internet, News Media | 1 Comment

Links 12/1/10

Posted on December 1, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Wednesday. Blah.
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The Definition of Insanity Is…

Posted on December 1, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

…I bet you thought I was going to write something like, “….doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Nope.
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Posted in Democrats | 4 Comments

I Would Go With PacBio, But Not Because of Human Genomics

Posted on December 1, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

What do you think the growth area for genomics is?
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Posted in Bidness, Genomics | 3 Comments