Why Auster Spends So Much Time and Energy Attacking Alt Right
Actually, I don’t really know, I was just wondering. I did get a hoot out of this: This is the amoral tribalism that dominates the thinking of the paleocon/HBD faction, and renders them incapable of offering anything of useful in the political and cultural sphere, because people who reduce all human values to the genetic [...]
On public opinion
In our arts policy course for the next few classes we will look at public opinion regarding government funding of the arts. And so a lesson in polling from the invaluable “Yes, Prime Minister”: Via Atrios.
International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics has highly cited papers.
Papers from the first two issues of the International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics have been selected by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers in shipping. The papers involved are:An empirical model of the bulk shipping market, by Y.H. Venus Lun and Mohammed A. Quaddus (vol. 1(1), 37-54, DOI: 10.1504/IJSTL.2009.021975) Fleet [...]
Ghost writing with a new twist
And this was supposed to be the administration that would keep politics out of science? An article by Shannen Coffin, a deputy attorney general during the Bush administration, opens: When President Obama promised in his inaugural address to “restore science to its rightful place,” he never explained what that rightful place would be. Documents recently [...]
Will my dogs make me sick?
The article from Emerging Infectious Diseases is not on line yet, but I ran across this from Bloomberg Business Week: You might want to think twice before snuggling in bed at night with Fido or Fluffy.According to a report published in the February issue of the public health journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, seemingly healthy pets [...]
