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Image Histogram Matching with Polynomials
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Team USA 2018
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My Post on the Uber Engineering Blog
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10 Lessons from The Founder
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Third-Wave Web?
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An Open Letter Concerning Pres. Trump's Ban on Muslim Refugees
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Audiobook Recommendations for 2016
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Unusually Unreliable? Analyzing Denver's 'Train to the Plane'
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Failure and the Flavor Graveyard
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Seven (Enjoyable) Novels of the Apocalypse
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Team USA by the Numbers
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John Wesley Powell, Startup Founder
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Jekyll Template for Book Reviews
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Teams and Tools (QCon 2016)
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Expectation-Maximization for Gaussian Mixtures in Python
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XKCDSub Chrome Extension, Now More Fun
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Measuring the Economic Impact of Startups
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Book Review: Originals
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Classifying Tweets: Kanye or Trump
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This Site Moved to Jekyll
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How to Make Your First Chrome Extension
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Edward Snowden on Privacy, Values, and Government Surveillance
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The "Manual for Civilization" Project: A Library for the End of the World
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The Future of Imagination
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Design Patterns for Cooking
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A Checklist for Using Open Source Software in Production
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A New Wiki for Computer Science Symbols
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe
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Now in Print: “The Impact of Leadership Removal on Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations”
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Academia to Industry
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Tirole on Open Source
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Epstein on Athletes
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Classifying Olympic Athletes by Sport and Event (Part 3)
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Classifying Olympic Athletes by Sport and Event (Part 2)
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Classifying Olympic Athletes by Sport and Event (Part 1)
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Two Unusual Papers on Monte Carlo Simulation
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What Really Happened to Nigeria's Economy?
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Schneier on Data and Power
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"The Impact of Leadership Removal on Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations"
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Mexico Update Following Joaquin Guzmán's Capture
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Who says North is "up"?
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Visualizing the Indian Buffet Process with Shiny
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Constitutional Forks Revisited
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Playing Chicken with Your Calendar
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Don't Forget Your Forever Stamps
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Github for Government
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What Can We Learn from Games?
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Uncle Bob on Public Policy and Software Professionalism
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The Economy That Is Stanford
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Two Great Talks on Government and Technology
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Political Forecasting and the Use of Baseline Rates
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A Chrome Extension for XKCD Substitutions
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The Economics of Movie Popcorn
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Visualizing Political Unrest in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey
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Visualizing the BART Labor Dispute
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Review: RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
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African Statistics and the Problem of Measurement
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Technology and Government: San Francisco vs. New York
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Inequality, Feudalism, and the Internet
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Strategizing for the Best Parking Space
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The Culture That is Unix
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Economic Redistribution in the Air
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Bash Script for Editing Playlist Files
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Collison on Government and the Internet
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The Internet: Communication or Transportation?
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Doublespeak: A Chrome App for the Orwellian Web
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Reputation in Hacker Culture
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Organized Crime Roundup
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How Traveling Salesmen Complicate the Traveling Salesman Problem
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How "The Wire" Explains Microsoft
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Phil Schrodt on the State of the Discipline
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Grad Student Gift Ideas
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Shipping Containers
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Podcasts I Like
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The Problem with Tipping
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Will the Internet Lead to Convergence of Dictatorship and Democracy?
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This is Your Brain on Hunger
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Currency and Conflict
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Trade Secrets of Methodologists: A Bibliography
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Recommended Packages for R 3.x
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Mapping Literal Place Names
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Facelift
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Project Design as Reproducibility Aid
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Defining Death
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George Box, the Accidental Statistician
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Managing Memory and Load Times in R and Python
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Statistics as Principled Argument
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Dissertations as Essays Rather than Treatises
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JavaScript Politics
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Virus Naming
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More on Food Truck Regulation
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Net Neutrality: Why You Should Care
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Great Gatsby, Copyright, and the Public Domain
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Internet Sales Tax FAQ
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Gypsy Law
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Risk, Overreaction, and Control
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Python for Political Scientists, Spring 2013 Recap
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: 8-Hour Sleep
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: The Five-Day Work Week
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Dollar Bills and US State Borders
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The Aesthetic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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The Political Economy of *Killing Them Softly*
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When will telephone polls have their "Literary Digest" moment?
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Blogging, Two Years On
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Five Lessons on Strategic Thinking from Jane Austen
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What Can Novels Teach Us?
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Communication Technology and Politics
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Reducing the Hidden Costs of Urban Living
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Etiquette in the Digital Age
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Kurds and Statelessness
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Off to ISA
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Just Don't Call It Moneyball
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How Much is a Publication Worth?
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Ruby's Benevolent Dictator
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America and Food Trucks: A Proud but Troubled Relationship
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The Randomness of Borders
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Grad Student Advice Round-Up
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Coughing at Classical Concerts
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Micro-Institutions at the Gym
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Book ID Numbers
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Phony Rules of English Grammar
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Hackers vs. Diplomats
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The German Tank Problem
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Leadership Targeting and Perverse Incentives
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James C. Scott on the Politics of Everyday Life
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More Baby Name Regulation
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Accidents, Worker Safety, and Coming Due
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The Britiſh are Leaving: Law and Legislation for the English "S"
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: The English Alphabet
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Converting and Standardizing Country Names/Codes in R
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Regulating Baby Names
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Interviews with Over 50 IR Scholars
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Around Your Waist
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The New Netflix Strategy: Gambling on House of Cards
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The Roman Internet
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Politics of Beards: Post-Mubarak Egypt Edition
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Was the Civil War a Constitutional Fork?
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RubyMotion for Complete Beginners
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The Political Economy of Scrabble: Currency, Innovation, and Norms
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Parking and Snow
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The Economist on Internet Politics
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Internet Politics Round-Up
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Statistical Thinking and the Birth of Modern Computing
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What's the Best Way to Learn? Just-In-Time versus Just-In-Case
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Taxes, Moonshine, and State Building
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Why Does Manhattan Have the Best Shrimp?
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Review: Everything is Obvious
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Middle Schoolers Intuitively Grasp Economics
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What Can Les Mis Teach Us About Revolutions?
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British and American Political Systems in Two Images
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Automatically Setup New R and LaTeX Projects
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Punctuation Politics - The Curious Case of the Apostrophe
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The Politics of Chain Stores: Where to Go for Coffee When Traveling?
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What Can Economics Teach Us About Gift-Giving?
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US Defends Internet Freedom at WCIT
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DTO Leadership Targeting Increased Violence, Multiplied Cartels
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Species and Regime Types
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The Politics of Train Commuting, Part II
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The Politics of Train Commuting, Part I
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Secession in 10 Easy Steps
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The Politics of Beards: Syrian Rebels Edition
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Internet Policing in Syria and Around the World
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UN to Decide the Political Future of the Internet
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More Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Taxes
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The Politics and Economics of Dealing Drugs, Part II
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The Politics and Economics of Dealing Drugs, Part I
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: The Meals We Eat
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Could FDR Have Prevented the Cuban Revolution?
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How to Be a Dictator in the Age of the Internet
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Is e-Voting in Our Future?
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How to Get FIPS Codes from Latitude and Longitude
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How Could We Get Gasoline to Hurricane Victims?
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What is the Right Level of Internet Crime?
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Politics in the Animal Kingdom
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More Error in Art: Fake Rothko's
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The Politics of Monopoly
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How Could Hurricane Sandy Affect the Election?
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What Did Manifest Destiny Look Like?
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What is the Future of Publishing?
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When Will Cuba Experience Regime Change?
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Afghanistan Casualties Over Time and Space
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What Are the Chances Your Vote Will Matter?
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Atwood on Internet Communities and Politics
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Elevators
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Simulating the NLDS: Can the Giants Win?
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New Conflict Forecasting Website
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H.R. McMaster on War
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Modeling Third-Party Intervention in Civil Wars
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Can Open-Source Techniques 'Fix' Politics?
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Chris Blattman Discovers Micro-Institutions
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Do Targeted Killings Work?
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Four Metaphors for the Internet (and Politics)
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Voter Loyalty in Two Countries
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Germany's Open Source Political Party
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How Should We Measure Military Power?
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Writing Advice Round-Up
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How Do Leaders Emerge in Open-Source Software?
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Are States Like Firms?
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How is Government Like the Internet?
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Where Do Governments Come From?
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Food Truck Wars
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Oximetry with Ruby and R
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Work on Important Problems
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Jobs, Thiel, and Stasis Theory
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Did You Ever Wonder...?
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Steve Jobs and the Value of Time
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Sports and the International System
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New Feature: Reading Lists
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Futbol Data
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Jury Duty
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The Politics of Children's Literature
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Sudoku on the Richter Scale
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For and Against Open Journals
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What Can Hacking Teach Us About War?
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Inside the Secret City
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Statistics, Ethics, and Open Data
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The Politics of Air Conditioning
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Science of Batman
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How Much Math is Enough?
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Cigarette Taxes and Unintended Consequences
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: How to Win at Jeopardy
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PolMeth 2012 Round-Up, Part 2
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PolMeth 2012 Round-Up, Part 1
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Walking Paths
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: TV Writers Podcast
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Does State Spending on Mental Health Lower Suicide Rates?
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Petition for TSA to Obey the Law
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Python for iOS
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Does the Internet Have a Political Disposition?
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Traffic and Property Rights
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Sounds of America
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Mexico's President-Elect Aims to Reduce Violence
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Jaywalking
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Merging Arthur Banks' Time Series with COW
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
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The Future of Checkpoint Security
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Getting Started with Prediction
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Where Things Come From
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Gelman's Five Essential Books on American Elections
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Notes on the Sinaloa Cartel
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Latitude, Longitude, and Culture
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Eliminate File Redundancy with Ruby
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Games (and More) in Stata
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The Politics of Mafia Marriages
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A New Blog on Political Violence
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Egyptian Elections and the Paradox of Democracy
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Create Your Own Crossword Puzzles
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Where Do Kilograms Come From?
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The Politics of WiFi Names
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Setup
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Why Are Hot Dogs So Inexpensive?
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Henry Farrell on Internet Politics
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: 200 Years of Campaign Posters
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Brookings: Hybrid University Classes as Good as Traditional Format
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A Return to Apprenticeship
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Stadiums, Bazaars, and Signalling
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Anything Becomes a Touchpad
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Schelling's Model of Segregation (Python)
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Folding Air
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Politics is Weird: French Election Edition
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Prices
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The Truth About Politics?
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Literary Recipes
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Thiel and Cutler on Exponential Thinking
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Useful Approximations for Large Numbers (and Some Small Ones)
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Faculty Salaries at American Universities
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A Model of Conflict: Iwo Jima
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: How Real is Your Field of Study?
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My Ten Favorite Posts from the Past Year
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Blogging, One Year On
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Ten Facts About Turkey
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Build Your Own Turing Machine
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Top Forty Radio
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Peru Claims Shining Path 'Defeated'
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WNF Bonus Addition: Destroy the NY Times (Game)
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Coffee Chemistry
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Statistics in Social Science--Fad or Research Frontier?
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Ethical Programming
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The iPad of 1935
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Bike Paths
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PyCon 2012 Video Round-Up
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Emojicons
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Illicit Trade and International Relations
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Sentences to Ponder, Egypt Edition
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Every Plot, Ever
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How to Count Words in LaTex Documents
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Pirates
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Profile of a Conflict Statistician
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Computer History Museum
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Meta-Blogging Pt. 3: Social Media and Page Views
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Café Wifi Pricing
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What Huntington Forgot
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Meta-Blogging, Pt. 2: Weekly Trend in Tweets, Likes, and Comments
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Meta-Blogging, Pt. 1: Introduction
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Interpol Arrests Anonymous Members
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Hollywood Operating System
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Call for Papers: The Internet and Campaign 2012
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Update on Saeed Malekpour, Imprisoned Programmer
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Three AQIM Leaders Killed
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Defeating ACTA
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How Nuclear Physicists Relax
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Traffic Cops and Normalcy
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Graph Redo, or A Lesson Learned
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Are 'Feeling Thermometers' Bogus?
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More Wednesday Nerd Fun: Political Scientist Valentines
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ICYMI: Econ Valentines
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Peter Thiel on Innovation, Science, and Politics
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Traffic Jam Solutions
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Hipster Ipsum
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How TV Networks Manipulate Ratings
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Time and Lateness
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New Waze to Map
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More on Micro-Institutions: Traffic Changes
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Can Programming Get You Killed?
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Build Your Own President
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Major Strike on Sinaloa Cartel
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Error in Art: How Many Rembrandt's are there?
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Visualization Basics: Japanese Multiplication
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Why I Blacked Out
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Einstein and Reality
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Dictators and Sit-Coms
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Crime Bosses
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IQ, GDP, and the Abuse of Acronyms
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How Do We Define Risk?
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Are Casualty Statistics Reliable?
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Find Unique Values in List (Python)
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New Year's Resolution: Get Addicted
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Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Pedestrians
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Game of 99
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Update on SOPA
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Are Assassins Crazy?
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Wednesday Nerd Fun
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US Drug Prices, 2004-2008
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Traffic Circles and Safety
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Statistics and Crime: "We are all criminals."
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Opposing the "Stop Online Piracy" Act
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PETA and Super Mario
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An Answer to Violence in Mexico
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But corporations don't supply public goods!
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Assassination is Counterproductive
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What's the big deal about corporations?
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"You Are Not So Smart"
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Iraq Casualties and Public Opinion, 2003
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Mapping Leadership Removals in Mexico
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Where did service members killed in Iraq come from?
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Another Cartel Leader Arrested
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Tips for Writers Block
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Moneyball Roundup
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Bus Schedules as Micro-Institutions
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Three Senior Cartel Members Arrested
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Fantastic Video: Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið
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Guest Post: Rick Perry's Foreign Policy
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Writing as Driving
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Writing, Driving, and the Weakness of the 'Subjectivity Critique'
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Work and Leisure
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Finding a Series of Confidence Intervals in R
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Religious Texts as Political Documents
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Casinos as Institutions
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Institutions and Behavior
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Responding to the New York Times
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What is a "special interest"?
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Statistics Links
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Lessons from Moneyball
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Moneyball comes out tonight
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Questions on Palestinian Statehood
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Reality Check on Speed Limits
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Confirmation bias
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Nature and Politics
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Nature and Engineering
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Can you spot the gold in this rainbow?
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Apathy is Rational
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Waffle House and Disaster Planning
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Outliers happen...
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John Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly
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"This seems to touch a nerve"
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A Post on Hog Hunting
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One more on religion-and-politics for the day
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Problems with Science Aren't New
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People Have Never Liked Religious Leaders, etc.
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Persecution and Demographic Size
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What are they afraid of?
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More on Addiction
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Password frustration
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Public Opinion is Often Wrong
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More on Movie Scripts
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Reading in Graduate School
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A (More) Perfect World
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Of Gods and Men
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What I Ate in Jamaica
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Thoughts on Watching Public Enemies
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The Positive Features of Disagreement
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Social Media and the Arab Revolutions
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The Structure of Academic Conversation
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Mexico Captures Another Cartel Leader
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Thoughts (and links) on the Turkish Election
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Turkish elections this Sunday
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Food politics: EU-Russia edition
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Dangers of low blood sugar
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Canada falls short, again
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Fun with Statistics, US-Israel edition
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Transportation as an information problem
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Best iPad Apps for Nerds
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Consequences of bin Laden's Death
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More on transportation
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What causes traffic?
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Thinking Like a Scientist
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Addiction in "The English Opium Eater"
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Young Scholars on Turkey 2011
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Starting the Conversation on Addiction
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Effects of Killing bin Laden, Pt. 3
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Effects of Killing bin Laden, Pt. 2
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Effects of Killing bin Laden: Links
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Effects of Killing bin Laden, Pt. 1
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Tom Cruise on Teaching Writing
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Stated vs Revealed Preferences: Health Care Edition
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What is the purpose of professional conferences?
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WPSA 2011
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Sidenote: Mexico Agonistes
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Orientalism and Globalization
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Nationalism, Briefly Described
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