Two links for wine lovers… Professor Bainbridge on Wine, one of the better wine weblogs out there (his politics– via his other weblog– I often strongly disagree with, but I’d be quite happy to discuss any disagreements over the bottle of wine of his choice). Hedonistic Fruit Bombs, a great essay in the London Review [...]
Over at Knowledge Problem, Lynne Kiesling argues that electricity is not a commodity, but rather a highly differentiated technology service: [warning: vast overgeneralization ahead] Engineers and so-called consumer advocates like to call electricity a commodity, because thinking of it as such serves their interests. Thinking of electricity as a commodity maintains the focus on the [...]
The facts are at ABC news. I know I’m not alone in saying that I’ll really miss him. I grew up with his voice in my home every weeknight, and turned to him first for the news of the day. It’s hard knowing that his voice has fallen forever silent.
Reading Daniel Drezner’s post today about a possible avian flu vaccine, one would think that things are looking up. However, according to Effect Measure, the article to which he links may be overly optimistic. Not only is this little ray of hope dimmer than expected, but reading this post over at FuturePundit, it becomes obvious [...]
The first: Paul “I have the best opportunity in the world to talk to people about economics but I don’t use it very often because it seems that I’ve forgotten that I’m a respected economist, not just a pundit” Krugman takes on Intelligent Design… sort of. He opens his column with the sentence, “I’d like [...]
It’s always interesting to step out of your home environment and into one that is almost totally alien. Detroit, where I currently live, is Eastern Broadleaf Forest, whereas Moab is in the region of Intermountain Semi-Desert and Desert, according to the Forest Service. While I’ve been to the desert twice before, it’s still striking to [...]