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Controlling for location and time fixed effects, weather factors, the pre-game point spread, and the size of the local viewing audience, we find that upset losses by the home team (losses in…
Rolando Peñate lives in Brooklyn, is Design Lead at OpenGeo, part of the design team at The Open Planning Project, and occasionally syndicates parts of his life here.
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“A cautionary tale of what happens to [whistle-blowers] on conditions for military personnel with mental problems.” http://bit.ly/4bH3zH
Mary Bates explains:
In essence, when blind people hear the actions of others, they use the same network of cortical brain areas that sighted people use when they observe such actions. This fits…
Jonah Lehrer connects smell and memory:
Why is smell so sentimental? One possibility, which is supported by this recent experiment, is that the olfactory cortex has a direct neural link to the…
Modeled Behavior doesn’t understand why we don’t just sign longer leases:
I suspect that people want the collateral value of the home. That is, they want a large piece of property that they can…
URL shorteners still suck, but several URL shortening services have agreed to hand over the keys to 301Works in the event that a URL shortening company goes under. 301Works will be administered…
“The four-year residential program leading to a B.A. is the wrong model for a large majority of young people.” http://bit.ly/1EOmtN
Detainees to get "the-state-always-wins" system of "justice"
According to The Associated Press, Eric Holder will announce later today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants will be brought from Guantanamo to New York to stand trial, in…
The CBO tells us what we already knew:
I concluded the talk by emphasizing that fiscal policy is on an unsustainable path to an extent that cannot be solved by minor tinkering. The country faces…
Are Too Many Students Going To College?
The Chronicle hosts a debate. As usual, Charles Murray bucks the conventional wisdom:
It has been empirically demonstrated that doing well (B average or better) in a traditional college major in…
A $100 Million Conflict Of Interest
Greenwald trains his fire on Peter Galbraith:
What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years — as he traipsed around advocating for Kurdish autonomy — was that a company he formed…
Which is more useful? Google's links or the actual home page?
It’s interesting how many of Google’s expanded listings have become even more useful than the home page behind the link.
For example, take these two examples. One is the Google listing for Grub &…
From Wassap! to Obama, a decade in review
As part of Newsweek’s extensive 2010 project (more on that next week), they’ve produced a 7-minute video showing the highlights from the past decade.
