Thursday, May 31, 2012

First quality (worth), then cost

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From What is the Answer to High Student Debt? by Bill Henderson. My own belief is that educational quality is the next great frontier. If w...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources

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Carl Sagan in The Varieties of Scientific Experience : A Personal View of the Search for God. The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

These preference differences help explain why some earn more than others

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An interesting paper, De Gustibus non est Taxandum : Theory and Evidence on Preference Heterogeneity and Redistribution by Benjamin Lockwood...
Monday, May 28, 2012

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

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David Hume in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding . Chapter X, Of Miracles. Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concern...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Privileged Cluelessness

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Interesting discussion about perspective, context, stereotypes and assumptions. Privileged cluelessness on the internet and in the classroo...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Who starves first?

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George Orwell in an essay Charles Dickens . All our struggles are intertwined around three questions. How do we produce enough to surviv...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Good question

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It sometimes seems as if much or most of our public dialogue consists of a back and forth between two extreme factions, neither interested i...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Relational models theory

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From Mitt Romney, One Night Stands, and the Economics of Relationships by Gabriel Rossman An interesting discussion on the nature of relat...

Baloney Detection Kit

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I am in the process of writing up a couple of posts about how to assess an argument or more broadly how to read with a skeptical cast of min...

The affections colour and infect the understanding

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Francis Bacon in Novum Organon. Not 2012 but 1620. Nearly four hundred years old and yet you can pick up any magazine or newspaper and see...