Hurricanes vs. Himmicanes
The other day I received the following e-mail from a
No, math cannot predict the rise and fall of empires
Can math predict the rise and fall of empires? Math
Regression discontinuity with wacky high-order polynomial correction
Check it out: Wow! And this made its way into
“2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures”
Solomon Hsiang shares some bad news: Persistently reduced labor productivity
Football and the Greek Election
There has been broad speculation on if and how Greece's
More on genes and political preferences
Continuing Erik's series on this, here's a new "article":http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/02/1120666109.full.pdf+html by
Arrow’s other theorem
I received the following email from someone who'd like to
Selection bias in the study of chain emails
I blogged a "couple of months ago":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/04/the_political_science_of_chain.html about an interesting