Lynne Kiesling In a post on his favorite things Scottish, Tyler Cowen comes up empty when looking for a favorite Scottish band. I heartily recommend Snow Patrol. Jangly guitar, lyrics that are not banal, lyrical but not too melodic composition. Kind of in the intersection of Coldplay, Pearl Jam (and I largely say that because …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting article on zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, and EPA Director Mike Leavitt’s face-to-face introduction to our little invasive species critters. Handling a zebra mussel while hearing two longtime anglers say how the mussels have hurt fishing in the lake was the kind of experience Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, R-Clarence, …
After months of guest-posting and other various and sundry co-authorship, Mike Giberson has graciously consented to join Knowlege Problem in a formal capacity. He has a wide-ranging set of interests, only some of which intersect with mine (I think Lynne and Mike do not live by electricity alone …), so look for more thought-provoking and …
BTW, I’m opening the comments on the previous post for a week, because I’m really interested in getting feedback on these ideas. They are core components to some ongoing research in the hopper. So substantive comments are welcome! And yes, I know I need MT-Blacklist. But first I need to find the box where I’ve …
The ideas that have captured my attention recently (such as government funding of culture) have a central theme: the extent to which something is a public good, and what those public good characteristics imply for public policy. If a good (or service) has public good characteristics, does that fact necessarily imply that its provision should …
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For the moment I have closed comments as the default, although I will probably open the most recent ones manually. In the past 4 days I’ve been comment spammed to the tune of 16,000 comments. And that’s with half of the posts already being closed! Once we get my computers up and running at home …
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On Tuesday I had a pedantic experience very similar to the one that Russ Roberts had in Provincetown with his daughter. I was in Linens ‘n Things, as one is when one moves house, and I ended up with more things in my hand than I expected. So I went back to the front for …
There were a few cyclists at the IHS seminar at Bryn Mawr, and a few others following the Tour, so I did a good job of keeping up with the news through Friday. With the move (and the absence of DSL as of yet in the new home) I missed Lance’s outstanding sprint finish in …
One of the intellectually interesting things to me about this house renovation experience has been our relationship with the plaster and wood renovator. He and his team have done a great job with our walls, many of which needed some serious TLC, and the wood looks amazing. The economic side of it, though, has not …
Well … the move-in occurred Monday. Painless, really; much less arduous than moving out of the 4th-floor walkup condo. But the place is in total disarray, the DSL line hasn’t been installed yet, and I spent most of Tuesday making the bathroom functional, although we haven’t installed the medicine cabinet yet and my husband had …
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