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Sep 21, 2020
Herald Speaks to You
Sep 7, 2020
The Secret is Time
Jun 20, 2020
Tips for Getting Your Writing Off the Ground
May 5, 2020
Teaching Python in 2020
May 4, 2020
Trends in Entertainment
Mar 30, 2020
As Quiet as Christmas: Traffic in the Age of COVID-19
Feb 28, 2020
Computational Frameworks for Political and Social Research with Python
Aug 13, 2019
Why I Made MicDrop
Jun 25, 2019
A Panoptic Segmentation Reading List
Mar 2, 2019
Extracting Replies to a Tweet (Python)
Jan 12, 2019
An Update to Python's Governance Model
Jan 12, 2019
What Hollywood Learned from Andy Grove
Dec 31, 2018
How to Care for Kitchen Knives
Dec 8, 2018
My Favorite Books from 2018
Nov 18, 2018
Gaussian Mixture Models in Python with Pyro
Sep 28, 2018
Deep Learning for Computer Vision: Important Papers
Aug 20, 2018
Image Histogram Matching with Polynomials
Feb 7, 2018
Team USA 2018
Dec 12, 2017
My Post on the Uber Engineering Blog
Nov 28, 2017
Finding the Latest Available Version of a Python Package
Nov 14, 2017
Visualizing Jenkins Build Information
Sep 14, 2017
Counting Function Lengths in a Python Project
Aug 19, 2017
Why I Marched in Ferguson (2014)
Aug 17, 2017
ICML 2017 Recap
Jul 21, 2017
Blurring Faces with Google Cloud Vision
Jun 18, 2017
Do Adversarial Perturbations Work in Production?
Jun 4, 2017
10 Lessons from The Founder
Apr 13, 2017
Third-Wave Web?
Jan 28, 2017
An Open Letter Concerning Pres. Trump's Ban on Muslim Refugees
Dec 4, 2016
Audiobook Recommendations for 2016
Nov 21, 2016
Unusually Unreliable? Analyzing Denver's 'Train to the Plane'
Oct 31, 2016
Failure and the Flavor Graveyard
Aug 29, 2016
Seven (Enjoyable) Novels of the Apocalypse
Aug 15, 2016
Book Review: The Power Broker
Aug 3, 2016
Which member of Team USA are you?
Aug 1, 2016
Team USA by the Numbers
Jul 18, 2016
John Wesley Powell, Startup Founder
Jul 5, 2016
Jekyll Template for Book Reviews
Jun 20, 2016
Teams and Tools (QCon 2016)
Jun 6, 2016
Expectation-Maximization for Gaussian Mixtures in Python
May 15, 2016
XKCDSub Chrome Extension, Now More Fun
May 9, 2016
Measuring the Economic Impact of Startups
Apr 25, 2016
Book Review: Originals
Apr 18, 2016
Classifying Tweets: Kanye or Trump
Apr 4, 2016
Cities and Their Data
Mar 14, 2016
Exploring Memes with Ruby & Google Cloud Vision
Feb 29, 2016
Moving From Wordpress to Jekyll
Jan 30, 2016
This Site Moved to Jekyll
Jan 11, 2016
How to Make Your First Chrome Extension
Sep 28, 2015
What's the Worst That Can Happen?
Jul 6, 2015
What Can Software Developers Learn from Tigers?
Apr 20, 2015
Aviation, Suicide, and the Germanwings Crash
Apr 13, 2015
Edward Snowden on Privacy, Values, and Government Surveillance
Mar 2, 2015
The "Manual for Civilization" Project: A Library for the End of the World
Feb 23, 2015
The Future of Imagination
Feb 9, 2015
Design Patterns for Cooking
Feb 2, 2015
A Checklist for Using Open Source Software in Production
Jan 26, 2015
A New Wiki for Computer Science Symbols
Jan 19, 2015
Falsehoods Programmers Believe
Nov 19, 2014
Now in Print: “The Impact of Leadership Removal on Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations”
Nov 3, 2014
Academia to Industry
Oct 15, 2014
Tirole on Open Source
May 19, 2014
Epstein on Athletes
May 2, 2014
Classifying Olympic Athletes by Sport and Event (Part 3)
Apr 30, 2014
Classifying Olympic Athletes by Sport and Event (Part 2)
Apr 28, 2014
Classifying Olympic Athletes by Sport and Event (Part 1)
Apr 21, 2014
Two Unusual Papers on Monte Carlo Simulation
Apr 7, 2014
What Really Happened to Nigeria's Economy?
Mar 25, 2014
Schneier on Data and Power
Mar 17, 2014
"The Impact of Leadership Removal on Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations"
Feb 27, 2014
Mexico Update Following Joaquin Guzmán's Capture
Feb 21, 2014
Who says North is "up"?
Feb 12, 2014
Visualizing the Indian Buffet Process with Shiny
Jan 30, 2014
Constitutional Forks Revisited
Jan 27, 2014
Playing Chicken with Your Calendar
Jan 22, 2014
Don't Forget Your Forever Stamps
Jan 8, 2014
Github for Government
Jan 6, 2014
What Can We Learn from Games?
Dec 20, 2013
Uncle Bob on Public Policy and Software Professionalism
Dec 18, 2013
The Economy That Is Stanford
Nov 22, 2013
Two Great Talks on Government and Technology
Nov 13, 2013
Political Forecasting and the Use of Baseline Rates
Nov 8, 2013
A Chrome Extension for XKCD Substitutions
Oct 23, 2013
The Economics of Movie Popcorn
Oct 18, 2013
Visualizing Political Unrest in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey
Oct 16, 2013
Visualizing the BART Labor Dispute
Oct 9, 2013
Review: RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
Oct 7, 2013
African Statistics and the Problem of Measurement
Oct 2, 2013
Technology and Government: San Francisco vs. New York
Sep 30, 2013
Inequality, Feudalism, and the Internet
Sep 25, 2013
Strategizing for the Best Parking Space
Sep 11, 2013
The Culture That is Unix
Sep 9, 2013
Economic Redistribution in the Air
Sep 4, 2013
Bash Script for Editing Playlist Files
Aug 26, 2013
Collison on Government and the Internet
Aug 21, 2013
The Internet: Communication or Transportation?
Aug 19, 2013
Doublespeak: A Chrome App for the Orwellian Web
Aug 14, 2013
Reputation in Hacker Culture
Aug 12, 2013
Organized Crime Roundup
Aug 9, 2013
How Traveling Salesmen Complicate the Traveling Salesman Problem
Aug 7, 2013
How "The Wire" Explains Microsoft
Aug 5, 2013
Phil Schrodt on the State of the Discipline
Aug 2, 2013
Grad Student Gift Ideas
Jul 29, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Shipping Containers
Jul 26, 2013
Podcasts I Like
Jul 10, 2013
The Problem with Tipping
Jul 1, 2013
Will the Internet Lead to Convergence of Dictatorship and Democracy?
Jun 28, 2013
This is Your Brain on Hunger
Jun 21, 2013
Currency and Conflict
Jun 19, 2013
Trade Secrets of Methodologists: A Bibliography
Jun 14, 2013
Recommended Packages for R 3.x
Jun 12, 2013
Mapping Literal Place Names
Jun 10, 2013
Facelift
Jun 7, 2013
Project Design as Reproducibility Aid
Jun 5, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Defining Death
Jun 3, 2013
George Box, the Accidental Statistician
May 31, 2013
Managing Memory and Load Times in R and Python
May 27, 2013
Statistics as Principled Argument
May 27, 2013
Dissertations as Essays Rather than Treatises
May 24, 2013
JavaScript Politics
May 22, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Virus Naming
May 20, 2013
More on Food Truck Regulation
May 17, 2013
Net Neutrality: Why You Should Care
May 15, 2013
Great Gatsby, Copyright, and the Public Domain
May 13, 2013
Internet Sales Tax FAQ
May 10, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Gypsy Law
May 8, 2013
Risk, Overreaction, and Control
May 6, 2013
Python for Political Scientists, Spring 2013 Recap
May 3, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: 8-Hour Sleep
May 1, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: The Five-Day Work Week
Apr 29, 2013
Dollar Bills and US State Borders
Apr 26, 2013
The Aesthetic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Apr 24, 2013
The Political Economy of *Killing Them Softly*
Apr 22, 2013
When will telephone polls have their "Literary Digest" moment?
Apr 19, 2013
Blogging, Two Years On
Apr 17, 2013
Five Lessons on Strategic Thinking from Jane Austen
Apr 15, 2013
What Can Novels Teach Us?
Apr 12, 2013
Communication Technology and Politics
Apr 10, 2013
Reducing the Hidden Costs of Urban Living
Apr 8, 2013
Etiquette in the Digital Age
Apr 5, 2013
Kurds and Statelessness
Apr 3, 2013
Off to ISA
Apr 1, 2013
Just Don't Call It Moneyball
Mar 29, 2013
How Much is a Publication Worth?
Mar 27, 2013
Ruby's Benevolent Dictator
Mar 25, 2013
America and Food Trucks: A Proud but Troubled Relationship
Mar 22, 2013
The Randomness of Borders
Mar 20, 2013
Grad Student Advice Round-Up
Mar 18, 2013
Coughing at Classical Concerts
Mar 15, 2013
Micro-Institutions at the Gym
Mar 13, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Book ID Numbers
Mar 11, 2013
Phony Rules of English Grammar
Mar 8, 2013
Hackers vs. Diplomats
Mar 6, 2013
The German Tank Problem
Mar 4, 2013
Leadership Targeting and Perverse Incentives
Mar 1, 2013
James C. Scott on the Politics of Everyday Life
Feb 27, 2013
More Baby Name Regulation
Feb 25, 2013
Accidents, Worker Safety, and Coming Due
Feb 22, 2013
The Britiſh are Leaving: Law and Legislation for the English "S"
Feb 20, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: The English Alphabet
Feb 18, 2013
Converting and Standardizing Country Names/Codes in R
Feb 15, 2013
Regulating Baby Names
Feb 13, 2013
Interviews with Over 50 IR Scholars
Feb 11, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Around Your Waist
Feb 8, 2013
The New Netflix Strategy: Gambling on House of Cards
Feb 6, 2013
The Roman Internet
Feb 4, 2013
Politics of Beards: Post-Mubarak Egypt Edition
Feb 1, 2013
Was the Civil War a Constitutional Fork?
Jan 30, 2013
RubyMotion for Complete Beginners
Jan 28, 2013
The Political Economy of Scrabble: Currency, Innovation, and Norms
Jan 25, 2013
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Parking and Snow
Jan 23, 2013
The Economist on Internet Politics
Jan 21, 2013
Internet Politics Round-Up
Jan 18, 2013
Statistical Thinking and the Birth of Modern Computing
Jan 16, 2013
What's the Best Way to Learn? Just-In-Time versus Just-In-Case
Jan 14, 2013
Taxes, Moonshine, and State Building
Jan 11, 2013
Why Does Manhattan Have the Best Shrimp?
Jan 9, 2013
Review: Everything is Obvious
Jan 7, 2013
Middle Schoolers Intuitively Grasp Economics
Jan 4, 2013
What Can Les Mis Teach Us About Revolutions?
Jan 2, 2013
British and American Political Systems in Two Images
Dec 31, 2012
Automatically Setup New R and LaTeX Projects
Dec 28, 2012
Punctuation Politics - The Curious Case of the Apostrophe
Dec 26, 2012
The Politics of Chain Stores: Where to Go for Coffee When Traveling?
Dec 24, 2012
What Can Economics Teach Us About Gift-Giving?
Dec 21, 2012
US Defends Internet Freedom at WCIT
Dec 19, 2012
DTO Leadership Targeting Increased Violence, Multiplied Cartels
Dec 17, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Species and Regime Types
Dec 14, 2012
The Politics of Train Commuting, Part II
Dec 12, 2012
The Politics of Train Commuting, Part I
Dec 10, 2012
Secession in 10 Easy Steps
Dec 7, 2012
The Politics of Beards: Syrian Rebels Edition
Dec 5, 2012
Internet Policing in Syria and Around the World
Dec 3, 2012
UN to Decide the Political Future of the Internet
Nov 30, 2012
More Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Taxes
Nov 28, 2012
The Politics and Economics of Dealing Drugs, Part II
Nov 26, 2012
The Politics and Economics of Dealing Drugs, Part I
Nov 23, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: The Meals We Eat
Nov 21, 2012
Could FDR Have Prevented the Cuban Revolution?
Nov 19, 2012
How to Be a Dictator in the Age of the Internet
Nov 16, 2012
Is e-Voting in Our Future?
Nov 14, 2012
How to Get FIPS Codes from Latitude and Longitude
Nov 12, 2012
How Could We Get Gasoline to Hurricane Victims?
Nov 9, 2012
What is the Right Level of Internet Crime?
Nov 7, 2012
Politics in the Animal Kingdom
Nov 5, 2012
More Error in Art: Fake Rothko's
Nov 2, 2012
The Politics of Monopoly
Oct 31, 2012
How Could Hurricane Sandy Affect the Election?
Oct 29, 2012
What Did Manifest Destiny Look Like?
Oct 26, 2012
What is the Future of Publishing?
Oct 24, 2012
When Will Cuba Experience Regime Change?
Oct 22, 2012
Afghanistan Casualties Over Time and Space
Oct 19, 2012
What Are the Chances Your Vote Will Matter?
Oct 17, 2012
Atwood on Internet Communities and Politics
Oct 15, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Elevators
Oct 11, 2012
Simulating the NLDS: Can the Giants Win?
Oct 10, 2012
New Conflict Forecasting Website
Oct 8, 2012
H.R. McMaster on War
Oct 5, 2012
Modeling Third-Party Intervention in Civil Wars
Oct 3, 2012
Can Open-Source Techniques 'Fix' Politics?
Oct 2, 2012
Chris Blattman Discovers Micro-Institutions
Oct 1, 2012
Do Targeted Killings Work?
Sep 28, 2012
Four Metaphors for the Internet (and Politics)
Sep 26, 2012
Voter Loyalty in Two Countries
Sep 24, 2012
Germany's Open Source Political Party
Sep 21, 2012
How Should We Measure Military Power?
Sep 19, 2012
Writing Advice Round-Up
Sep 17, 2012
How Do Leaders Emerge in Open-Source Software?
Sep 14, 2012
Are States Like Firms?
Sep 12, 2012
How is Government Like the Internet?
Sep 10, 2012
Where Do Governments Come From?
Sep 7, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Food Truck Wars
Sep 5, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Oximetry with Ruby and R
Sep 3, 2012
Work on Important Problems
Aug 31, 2012
Jobs, Thiel, and Stasis Theory
Aug 29, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Did You Ever Wonder...?
Aug 27, 2012
Steve Jobs and the Value of Time
Aug 24, 2012
Sports and the International System
Aug 23, 2012
New Feature: Reading Lists
Aug 22, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Futbol Data
Aug 20, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Jury Duty
Aug 17, 2012
The Politics of Children's Literature
Aug 15, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Sudoku on the Richter Scale
Aug 13, 2012
For and Against Open Journals
Aug 10, 2012
What Can Hacking Teach Us About War?
Aug 8, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Inside the Secret City
Aug 6, 2012
Statistics, Ethics, and Open Data
Aug 3, 2012
The Politics of Air Conditioning
Aug 1, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Science of Batman
Jul 30, 2012
How Much Math is Enough?
Jul 27, 2012
Cigarette Taxes and Unintended Consequences
Jul 26, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: How to Win at Jeopardy
Jul 24, 2012
PolMeth 2012 Round-Up, Part 2
Jul 23, 2012
PolMeth 2012 Round-Up, Part 1
Jul 20, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Walking Paths
Jul 18, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: TV Writers Podcast
Jul 16, 2012
Does State Spending on Mental Health Lower Suicide Rates?
Jul 13, 2012
Petition for TSA to Obey the Law
Jul 11, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Python for iOS
Jul 9, 2012
Does the Internet Have a Political Disposition?
Jul 6, 2012
Traffic and Property Rights
Jul 4, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Sounds of America
Jul 2, 2012
Mexico's President-Elect Aims to Reduce Violence
Jul 2, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Jaywalking
Jun 29, 2012
Merging Arthur Banks' Time Series with COW
Jun 27, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
Jun 25, 2012
The Future of Checkpoint Security
Jun 22, 2012
Getting Started with Prediction
Jun 20, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Where Things Come From
Jun 20, 2012
Gelman's Five Essential Books on American Elections
Jun 18, 2012
Notes on the Sinaloa Cartel
Jun 15, 2012
Latitude, Longitude, and Culture
Jun 14, 2012
Eliminate File Redundancy with Ruby
Jun 13, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Games (and More) in Stata
Jun 11, 2012
The Politics of Mafia Marriages
Jun 8, 2012
A New Blog on Political Violence
Jun 8, 2012
Egyptian Elections and the Paradox of Democracy
Jun 6, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Create Your Own Crossword Puzzles
Jun 5, 2012
Where Do Kilograms Come From?
Jun 1, 2012
The Politics of WiFi Names
May 30, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Setup
May 28, 2012
Why Are Hot Dogs So Inexpensive?
May 25, 2012
Henry Farrell on Internet Politics
May 23, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: 200 Years of Campaign Posters
May 23, 2012
Brookings: Hybrid University Classes as Good as Traditional Format
May 21, 2012
A Return to Apprenticeship
May 17, 2012
Stadiums, Bazaars, and Signalling
May 16, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Anything Becomes a Touchpad
May 14, 2012
Schelling's Model of Segregation (Python)
May 9, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Folding Air
May 7, 2012
Politics is Weird: French Election Edition
May 7, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Prices
May 3, 2012
The Truth About Politics?
May 2, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Literary Recipes
Apr 28, 2012
Thiel and Cutler on Exponential Thinking
Apr 25, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Useful Approximations for Large Numbers (and Some Small Ones)
Apr 23, 2012
Faculty Salaries at American Universities
Apr 20, 2012
A Model of Conflict: Iwo Jima
Apr 18, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: How Real is Your Field of Study?
Apr 17, 2012
My Ten Favorite Posts from the Past Year
Apr 16, 2012
Blogging, One Year On
Apr 13, 2012
Ten Facts About Turkey
Apr 11, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Build Your Own Turing Machine
Apr 9, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Top Forty Radio
Apr 6, 2012
Peru Claims Shining Path 'Defeated'
Apr 4, 2012
WNF Bonus Addition: Destroy the NY Times (Game)
Apr 4, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Coffee Chemistry
Apr 2, 2012
Statistics in Social Science--Fad or Research Frontier?
Mar 30, 2012
Ethical Programming
Mar 28, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: The iPad of 1935
Mar 28, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Bike Paths
Mar 23, 2012
PyCon 2012 Video Round-Up
Mar 21, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Emojicons
Mar 19, 2012
Illicit Trade and International Relations
Mar 16, 2012
Sentences to Ponder, Egypt Edition
Mar 14, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Every Plot, Ever
Mar 13, 2012
How to Count Words in LaTex Documents
Mar 12, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Pirates
Mar 9, 2012
Profile of a Conflict Statistician
Mar 7, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Computer History Museum
Mar 6, 2012
Meta-Blogging Pt. 3: Social Media and Page Views
Mar 5, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Café Wifi Pricing
Mar 3, 2012
What Huntington Forgot
Mar 2, 2012
Meta-Blogging, Pt. 2: Weekly Trend in Tweets, Likes, and Comments
Mar 2, 2012
Meta-Blogging, Pt. 1: Introduction
Feb 29, 2012
Interpol Arrests Anonymous Members
Feb 29, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Hollywood Operating System
Feb 27, 2012
Call for Papers: The Internet and Campaign 2012
Feb 24, 2012
Update on Saeed Malekpour, Imprisoned Programmer
Feb 23, 2012
Three AQIM Leaders Killed
Feb 22, 2012
Defeating ACTA
Feb 22, 2012
How Nuclear Physicists Relax
Feb 20, 2012
Traffic Cops and Normalcy
Feb 18, 2012
Graph Redo, or A Lesson Learned
Feb 17, 2012
Are 'Feeling Thermometers' Bogus?
Feb 15, 2012
More Wednesday Nerd Fun: Political Scientist Valentines
Feb 15, 2012
ICYMI: Econ Valentines
Feb 14, 2012
Peter Thiel on Innovation, Science, and Politics
Feb 10, 2012
Traffic Jam Solutions
Feb 8, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Hipster Ipsum
Feb 6, 2012
How TV Networks Manipulate Ratings
Feb 3, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Time and Lateness
Feb 1, 2012
New Waze to Map
Jan 30, 2012
More on Micro-Institutions: Traffic Changes
Jan 26, 2012
Can Programming Get You Killed?
Jan 25, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Build Your Own President
Jan 24, 2012
Major Strike on Sinaloa Cartel
Jan 23, 2012
Error in Art: How Many Rembrandt's are there?
Jan 20, 2012
Visualization Basics: Japanese Multiplication
Jan 19, 2012
Why I Blacked Out
Jan 13, 2012
Einstein and Reality
Jan 11, 2012
Wednesday Nerd Fun: Dictators and Sit-Coms
Jan 10, 2012
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Crime Bosses
Jan 6, 2012
IQ, GDP, and the Abuse of Acronyms
Jan 4, 2012
How Do We Define Risk?
Jan 2, 2012
Are Casualty Statistics Reliable?
Jan 1, 2012
Find Unique Values in List (Python)
Dec 31, 2011
New Year's Resolution: Get Addicted
Dec 30, 2011
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Pedestrians
Dec 28, 2011
Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Game of 99
Dec 23, 2011
Update on SOPA
Dec 23, 2011
Are Assassins Crazy?
Dec 14, 2011
Wednesday Nerd Fun
Dec 9, 2011
US Drug Prices, 2004-2008
Nov 29, 2011
Traffic Circles and Safety
Nov 22, 2011
Statistics and Crime: "We are all criminals."
Nov 21, 2011
Opposing the "Stop Online Piracy" Act
Nov 15, 2011
PETA and Super Mario
Nov 10, 2011
An Answer to Violence in Mexico
Nov 4, 2011
But corporations don't supply public goods!
Nov 3, 2011
Assassination is Counterproductive
Nov 3, 2011
What's the big deal about corporations?
Oct 29, 2011
"You Are Not So Smart"
Oct 22, 2011
Iraq Casualties and Public Opinion, 2003
Oct 18, 2011
Mapping Leadership Removals in Mexico
Oct 15, 2011
Where did service members killed in Iraq come from?
Oct 14, 2011
Another Cartel Leader Arrested
Oct 11, 2011
Tips for Writers Block
Oct 8, 2011
Moneyball Roundup
Oct 6, 2011
Bus Schedules as Micro-Institutions
Oct 6, 2011
Three Senior Cartel Members Arrested
Oct 5, 2011
Fantastic Video: Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið
Oct 5, 2011
Guest Post: Rick Perry's Foreign Policy
Oct 4, 2011
Writing as Driving
Oct 4, 2011
Writing, Driving, and the Weakness of the 'Subjectivity Critique'
Oct 2, 2011
Work and Leisure
Oct 1, 2011
Finding a Series of Confidence Intervals in R
Sep 29, 2011
Religious Texts as Political Documents
Sep 28, 2011
Casinos as Institutions
Sep 27, 2011
Institutions and Behavior
Sep 27, 2011
Responding to the New York Times
Sep 26, 2011
What is a "special interest"?
Sep 25, 2011
Statistics Links
Sep 25, 2011
Lessons from Moneyball
Sep 23, 2011
Moneyball comes out tonight
Sep 23, 2011
Questions on Palestinian Statehood
Sep 22, 2011
Reality Check on Speed Limits
Sep 12, 2011
Confirmation bias
Sep 10, 2011
Nature and Politics
Sep 10, 2011
Nature and Engineering
Sep 6, 2011
Can you spot the gold in this rainbow?
Sep 6, 2011
Apathy is Rational
Sep 4, 2011
Waffle House and Disaster Planning
Sep 4, 2011
Outliers happen...
Sep 2, 2011
John Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly
Sep 2, 2011
"This seems to touch a nerve"
Sep 1, 2011
A Post on Hog Hunting
Aug 27, 2011
One more on religion-and-politics for the day
Aug 27, 2011
Problems with Science Aren't New
Aug 27, 2011
People Have Never Liked Religious Leaders, etc.
Aug 27, 2011
Persecution and Demographic Size
Aug 27, 2011
What are they afraid of?
Aug 23, 2011
More on Addiction
Aug 20, 2011
Password frustration
Aug 20, 2011
Public Opinion is Often Wrong
Aug 20, 2011
More on Movie Scripts
Aug 20, 2011
Reading in Graduate School
Aug 19, 2011
A (More) Perfect World
Aug 8, 2011
Of Gods and Men
Jul 25, 2011
What I Ate in Jamaica
Jun 27, 2011
Thoughts on Watching Public Enemies
Jun 24, 2011
The Positive Features of Disagreement
Jun 23, 2011
Social Media and the Arab Revolutions
Jun 22, 2011
The Structure of Academic Conversation
Jun 22, 2011
Mexico Captures Another Cartel Leader
Jun 13, 2011
Thoughts (and links) on the Turkish Election
Jun 11, 2011
Turkish elections this Sunday
Jun 9, 2011
Food politics: EU-Russia edition
Jun 8, 2011
Dangers of low blood sugar
Jun 4, 2011
Canada falls short, again
Jun 4, 2011
Fun with Statistics, US-Israel edition
Jun 2, 2011
Transportation as an information problem
May 18, 2011
Best iPad Apps for Nerds
May 18, 2011
Consequences of bin Laden's Death
May 17, 2011
More on transportation
May 17, 2011
What causes traffic?
May 11, 2011
Thinking Like a Scientist
May 7, 2011
Addiction in "The English Opium Eater"
May 5, 2011
Young Scholars on Turkey 2011
May 4, 2011
Starting the Conversation on Addiction
May 3, 2011
Effects of Killing bin Laden, Pt. 3
May 3, 2011
Effects of Killing bin Laden, Pt. 2
May 2, 2011
Effects of Killing bin Laden: Links
May 2, 2011
Effects of Killing bin Laden, Pt. 1
Apr 29, 2011
Tom Cruise on Teaching Writing
Apr 25, 2011
Stated vs Revealed Preferences: Health Care Edition
Apr 24, 2011
What is the purpose of professional conferences?
Apr 21, 2011
WPSA 2011
Apr 19, 2011
Sidenote: Mexico Agonistes
Apr 19, 2011
Orientalism and Globalization
Apr 17, 2011
Nationalism, Briefly Described
Apr 16, 2011
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