Lynne Kiesling Over at Two Blowhards, Michael has a really nice and informative post on the Scottish Enlightenment, and its contrast with the French Enlightenment: My hunch about why we feel the post-Enlightenment pinch as acutely as we do is that the Enlightenment most of us know is the French Enlightenment. And those French, forever …
Michael Giberson Ever since I saw a note about it on Transterrestrial Musings a week ago, I’ve been meaning to write about the Prisoners’ Dilemma tournament organized at the University of Nottingham. For some 20 years, the simple tit-for-tat strategy has reigned as champion over all comers in iterated prisoners’ dilemma games. As Wired describes …
Lynne Kiesling Kevin Brancato is actually the one who has enhanced my productivity by posting on Google’s new tool for searching your hard disk. For people like me who are constantly on the knife’s edge of organization, this is the bee’s knees!
Michael Giberson Does economics matter? For an assessment that says a once esoteric economic modeling technique — rational expectations — led to better policy practice, see David Warsh?s Economic Principals column, ?A Day in the Life of Ed Prescott.?
Michael Giberson From out of the depths of data mining comes this amazing fact: “If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that occupies the White House continues to hold it; if the Redskins lose that last home game, the challenging party’s candidate unseats the incumbent president.” (From Snopes.com, via …
Senator Cambell of Colorado has introduced a bill in the Senate to “make technical corrections to laws relating to Native Americans, and for other purposes.” Among the technical corrections included in the bill is Sec. 14 – Amendment of Definition: “Section 2(9) of Public Law 101-601 (25 U.S.C. 3001(9)) is amended by inserting ‘or was’ …
Lynne Kiesling We had a delightful, long-beloved houseguest over the weekend, and a dinner party Sunday with some of our closest friends to celebrate his visit. One of the wines we served was the Napa Wine Company 2002 Zinfandel. Its nose was big and velvety, its taste on the front of the tongue slightly spicy …
Lynne Kiesling Rand Simberg’s funny eulogy for Jacques Derrida is another one of those things that I wish I had written: But if, as he once suggested, we use postcultural structuralist theory to deconstruct hierarchy, then it could be said that the characteristic theme of this pseudo event is in reality the rubicon of neodialectic …
Michael Giberson Three writers, each in some way suggesting an interplay between economy and literature. Lynne?s mention of Cryptonomicon reminded me that Neal Stephenson was on the Mall last Saturday participating in the National Book Festival. He filled up the Sci Fi and Fantasy tent with a crowd of enthusiastic readers. I arrived a few …
Lynne Kiesling The Electronic Frontier Foundation will represent journalists with content on servers seized by the FBI on behalf of a foreign government. From their press release: Earlier this month, the FBI made informal requests to both Rackspace and Indymedia to remove an Indymedia news story that included photos of undercover Swiss investigators posing as …
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