Lynne Kiesling In today’s Chicago Sun-Times, there’s an interesting Nat Hentoff column on campus diversity. His argument basically is that freedom of inquiry and diversity of thought should be considered one of the things for which students pay tuition, and without that freedom of inquiry and diversity of thought, are they really getting good value …
Lynne Kiesling Over at Truck and Barter, Ian Cook has written the post I would like to have written about the flu vaccine shortage: Hold the phone! You mean to say that government purchasing of vaccines at a forced discount has something to do with this? Could these be the mysterious “business reasons” that cause …
Lynne Kiesling A group of economists has filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court hearing of the interstate wine shipment case. George Akerlof, Daniel McFadden, Vernon Smith, Don Boudreaux, Robert Hahn, John Letiche, and Robert Litan is an excellent analysis of the economic issues in the case of interstate wine shipment. This paragraph provides …
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Lynne Kiesling This NYT article on today’s oil market (registration required) does a nice job of summarizing the uncertainties that are roiling the world oil market: Prices have rocketed as China’s economic expansion drives the fastest demand growth in a generation, stretching world fuel supplies to the limit and leaving no cushion to cope with …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve always liked the metaphor and the image that the phrase “virtuous cycle” draws, and I think we see lots of instances of it in the dynamics of human action. So it’s no surprise that I liked Kevin Brancato’s post on Bill Gates and his use of such rhetoric, both recently and in …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Stephen Bainbridge for his post on BMW’s H2R. He cites this Edmunds blurb that discusses the high-powered 12-cylinder BMW with only steam as a by-product. BMW has been out in front on this development for years; a couple of years ago they even had a PR event in LA where Jay …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Stephen Bainbridge for his post on BMW’s H2R. He cites this Edmunds blurb that discusses the high-powered 12-cylinder BMW with only steam as a by-product. BMW has been out in front on this development for years; a couple of years ago they even had a PR event in LA where Jay …
Michael Giberson From Technology News: The second private space flight in a week piloted by history’s second civilian astronaut was worth US$10 million today as the Paul Allen-funded SpaceShipOne (SS1) touched the edge of space and returned to Earth winner of the Ansari X Prize. In addition to its historical significance with respect to private …
Michael Giberson Another story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had me wondering whether football coaches may want to sign up a physicist to advise on potential challenges to referee decisions. Timothy Gay, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has written Football Physics: The Science of the Game, in which he illustrates a number of the principles of …
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Michael Giberson Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell came out in favor of enhancing competition in retail electric power supply in the Pittsburgh area (in this press release): “Enhancing competition in Pennsylvania means working to expand the choices that consumers have by creating more energy options and increasing the supply of energy from a diversity of …
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