ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I had so much fun with Steven Levitt's "daughter test," this one : It wasn’t until the U.S. government’s crackdown on intern...

Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York state: After a long debate, the state Senate approved the marriage bill 33-29 and Gov. Andrew C...

One of the most disheartening aspects of political blogging is that one has to watch the train-wrecks after watching the powerful engines g...

An interesting article from the Washington Post on the topic of CEO earnings and American income inequality. A snippet: Repeated survey...

Female tennis players grunt too much : In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Ian Ritchie admitted tournament officials were becoming i...

Mara Hvistendahl's new book, called Unnatural Selection , was reviewed in the Guardian some days ago: Unnatural Selection by Mara Hv...

My new keyboard is a Tactile Pro, and worth every single cent of its expensive price (thanks for paying for it, my lovely supporters, winkw...

Adams is the cartoonist who created Dilbert. He also appears to love controversy, perhaps due to the clicks it gives him. What he appears...

If you read the comments (yeah, I know) to this blog post about the Wal-Mart case, you will come across the old chestnut about sex discrim...

It would be cruel to force Wal-Mart to face class action suits. From May, 2011 : Over all, however, earnings beat analyst expectations, h...

That is how Atrios named his post about this proposal : FORTUNE -- The campaign by U.S. multinationals to sell Congress on a corporate ta...

I forgot that it was yesterday. I hope you had fun.

It may be painful to read banking or economics posts but less so if you look for the man (or woman) behind the curtain, along the lines of ...

The change has its problems. I still haven't managed to extract any of my research files from the dead computer. Lots of topics I wis...

Is certainly this one : The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups applauded the ruling. The Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacram...

The aisles to the left of you have low-wage dead-end jobs for women, the aisles to the right of you have better-paid careers and management...

Note: This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the identification of the first cases of AIDS - first called GRID (gay-related immuno-defici...

The funeral is today. What do you think of Macs? I need a large screen and good ergonomics from the keyboard.

Sometimes I see fedora-wearing hipster boy/men wandering around the city playing ukuleles (I am serious). Whenever I see this, I fantasize ...