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Archive for January, 2010
January 31st, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
… not all children are above average. Arne Duncan seems to have noticed, and will propose to change No Child Left Behind accordingly.
January 31st, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Carly Fiorina doesn’t seem to have left many friends back at HP.
January 30th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Steve Benen: Republican obstructionism has reached the level at which they oppose ideas they support.
January 29th, 2010
Category: Technology and Society
Why not solve the Toyota accelerator problem — at least on an interim basis — by reprogramming their engine computers to idle the engine when the brake is depressed for more than an instant?
January 28th, 2010
Category: Science and its methods, Technology and Society
Abstract: Don’t. Full text: This is so interesting: (1) Cell phone use damages driving performance almost to the DUI level. (2) Laws against using cell phones while driving are effective and reduce cell phone use a lot. (3) Where this happens, there’s no reduction in accidents! Toward the end of the story we get what [...]
January 28th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
New Mexico’s freshman senator wants to go after the filibuster, and he wants to do it right. Time to Reinforce Desired Behavior.
January 28th, 2010
Category: Strange world
Comparing TARP to root canal is profoundly unfair — to root canal.