Place your bets now. How much does someone’s world view predict their other attitudes?
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The Weekly Standard makes a fact-free argument about political science. Here are some facts.
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The 'documentary big bang' in nuclear weapons scholarship
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The ‘documentary big bang’ in nuclear weapons scholarship
[caption id="attachment_12832" align="aligncenter" width="460"] A nuclear explosion over Bikini Atoll
Defensive political science responds defensively to an attack on social science
Nicholas Christakis, a medical scientist perhaps best known for his
The Importance of Studying the Obvious
Duncan Watts responds to the efforts to defund the NSF's
Cognitive Democracy
Over the last couple of years, Cosma Shalizi and I
The dynamics of Twitter cascades
"Matt Yglesias":http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/18/346349/its-not-how-many-followers-you-have-its-who-follows-you/ writing about how the now famous protest sign
Drezner vs. Slaughter
[Health warning: _very_ long post with extensive quotes, on issues
Potpourri
* Norman Ornstein: Worse. Congress. Ever. * Duncan Watts on
Everything is Obvious (once you know the answer)
Duncan Watts gave his new book the above title, reflecting
Friend Sense
Via "Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media":http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2009/05/influence-not-as-simple-as-gladwell-would-have-you-believe.html, "this":http://research.yahoo.com/project/1994
Friend Sense
Yahoo! Research (including Duncan Watts, Sharad Goel, and others) has