The second Harry Potter movie is on short rotation on HBO, and I estimate that in the past week we’ve seen it about eight or so times; in fact, I had the major ephiphany in the paper I worked on over the holiday while sprawled on the floor during about the sixth viewing of it. …
While it may be unseemly to mention, it is even more unseemly to nominate oneself in the “best female authored blog” category. But why no “best economics blog” category?
This morning I’ve also updated my links list, most notably correcting the egregious absence of Robert Prather, Catallarchy, and Catallaxy Files from my list. But it’s an illustration of the cognitive process at work — you start seeing new links and references, you build up the frequency with which you visit them by clicking through …
BTW, I forgot to mention in light of Steve Verdon’s successful homemade cranberry sauce experience that I have been making homemade cranberry sauce for years, with this recipe: 1 bag cranberries 3/4 c. orange juice 1 1/2 c. sugar 2 T freshly grated orange rind Boil until the skins on the cranberries split. Skim foam …
With thanks to Virginia Postrel for the link, here is the Technology Review Blog, the weblog of Technology Review magazine. I love this magazine because it showcases how creative and visionary people can be. So please do pay them a visit and welcome them to the block!
Via my friend Ann, this most recent Cecil Adams Straight Dope column on ethanol. He’s apparently done his reading, as he references some of the academic and policy literature in his comments. And he doesn’t mind naming names: The immediate beneficiaries of ethanol subsidies have been corn farmers and, more significantly, the Archer Daniels Midland …
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is available at Hobbsonline. If the permalink doesn’t work, go to his homepage and scroll down. Robert Prather’s comments on a Paul Craig Roberts column on steel tariffs contain a very important nugget to remember about the process of economic growth: When this country was founded 19 out of …
In my getting back on the turnip cart this morning I’ve been perusing lots of things. Among the more intriguing are recent Futurepundit posts by Randall Parker, including this post on the role of choline in memory enhancement. The interesting thing about this finding is that it takes a month of high choline intake to …
Boy, I fell off the turnip cart pretty hard last week … teaching, having a paper to finish by last night to present on Friday at my alma mater, having my in-laws here for Thanksgiving. I even worked for a few hours in between turkey making chores on Thursday. So I was not the best …
Leaving today for a conference, back Sunday, intermittent contact likely.
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