My good friend and mentor Joel Mokyr spoke with Forbes recently about the most influential businessmen in history. The resulting article and list of people is quite interesting. To read each, click through the list on the right side of the article. The list contains two of my favorite entrepreneurs and two of the Lunar …
Tyler Cowen reminds me in one of his posts today that I don’t link to Ben Muse often enough to reflect the value I get from reading his website. I’m doing a little housecleaning today, so you’ll see Ben added to my links list, as well as Fellow Chicagoans Milt Rosenberg and Theresa the keyboard …
While we’re on the Chicago theme here, I’ve been meaning to post this Design Within Reach newsletter from February. DWR is opening a studio in Chicago, and to celebrate that opening they featured this article on the Chicago Architecture Foundation. CAF (of which yours truly is a member) hosts architecture tours in Chicago and suburbs, …
Ditto on my being a spaz: check out Global Chicago, written by Michael Herman, a fellow Chicagoan. He takes a philosophical approach to design and urban space, which I find refreshingly different to read and think about. I am intrigued by his take on open space, complexity, and Hayek: The planned orders of our organizations …
Am surrounded by approx. 400 pages of environmental economics research papers. Very interesting reads and lots of good research done. This and other factors of the day jobs have contributed to the silence in these quarters this week. Should change soon.
So today I looked in my “junk” folder in my mail program, and found several emails there that are “not junk”! The negative externalities of spam, indeed. One such message was from Mike VanWinkle, editor of Chicago Report, a blog-zine focusing primarily on Chicago politics and culture. I had, of course, seen links to Chicago …
Randall McElroy at Catallarchy has a really nice post from Sunday on the construction and use of public transportation in Atlanta and Chicago. One thing that matters is history — when the city builds its transportation infrastructure. But his point is well taken, and it’s not only public transportation that was privately funded by early …
According to this New Scientist article, feeding rapeseed (canola) oil to cows can produce butter with a better balance of unsaturated fats. Apparently the proportions in the feed have to be handled delicately, as the cow’s rumen (forestomach) contains bacteria that don’t respond well to the presence of so much canola oil. I wonder if …
Stephen Bainbridge has an interesting post on Petite Sirah, one of my favorite grapes. I like the blackberry and boysenberry that he notes in the young PS, and I certainly like the chocolate and spices in the mature PS. It’s a yummy and versatile grape, especially if you cook on the grill a lot. He …
This post from Tyler Cowen from Saturday illustrates some interesting features of our water use over the past 30 years. Evidently, our aggregate water use has not changed in 20 years: The flat trend in consumption came even as the USA’s population grew and electricity production, the largest user of water, increased. Of course, one …
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