Lynne Kiesling At Stumbling and Mumbling Chris Dillow has a post on regulating prostitution and why some people have such a visceral negative reaction to prostitution. He offers some (I think) persuasive counters to four common arguments against legal prostitution. Chris effectively makes the point that markets facilitate the mutual exchange of value for value …
Lynne Kiesling Mike beat me to it in commenting on David Cay Johnston’s NYT article from Wednesday about grid congestion. My thoughts are somewhat different from Mike’s, for what it’s worth. Johnston hits on one of the most pressing problems in electricity restructuring, although I’m going to frame it differently from how he does: technological …
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Michael Giberson David Cay Johnston is back with another in his series of articles on electric industry restructuring, this one concerning transmission congestion. Another important sign of worsening congestion is a sharp increase in requests by network operators to prevent overloads that could disrupt transmission on the PJM Interconnection, the network serving 51 million people …
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Michael Giberson If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. A new study for the Department of Energy finds that “off-peak” electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel …
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Michael Giberson Are blonds more fun? Researchers at the University of Cordoba in Spain have concluded that blonds “exhibit the most dominant and aggressive behavior.” The tests looked at how quickly a person could capture a puppy’s attention, how well puppies followed the individual, how the dogs behaved while restrained, how they exerted their social …
Lynne Kiesling How cool is this? All of Mozart’s sheet music is now available online, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth, at Digital Mozart Edition.
Lynne Kiesling Landfills, mines, and livestock give off methane, a form of natural gas that could be used as fuel if it were captured and recycled in some useful way. Methane is also a potent greenhouse gas, and some research shows that controlling methane may actually lead to larger effects than controlling carbon dioxide emissions. …
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Lynne Kiesling When I read today that October’s US trade deficit dropped to a 14-month low, I had my usual reaction to news items about the trade deficit: so what? Why should (exports-imports) be an indicator of anything of substance in a world of relatively free trade with flexible exchange rates? Sure, there are complex …
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Lynne Kiesling If not, then I recommend adding these seasonal music streams to your rotation: WOXY holiday mixer SOMAfm’s Xmas in Frisko SOMAfm’s Christmas Lounge I have not listened to the Christmas Lounge, but SOMA says it’s kid safe. SOMA’s Xmas in Frisko is a regular feature of our holiday schedule, and I’m glad that …
Michael Giberson Worthy of note for the film-going economists out there, Ann Hornaday sees “A Spike in Supply-Chain Muckraking”: An unlikely star has emerged of late on the Hollywood firmament, one buried for years under a bushel of white papers, think tank policy recommendations, IT memos and unread op-eds. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration: …
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