Saturday, August 22, 2015

Saturday Night Music: Gracias a La Vida

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By Violeta Parra: And by Mercedes Sosa: It's fun to compare different artists' takes.
Friday, August 21, 2015

Monopoly. The Game. A Re-Posting

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(From last March) Yesterday (i.e. March 19th) was the eightieth anniversary of the game called Monopoly.  There's an interesting subt...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

From my Classics Archives: The Islamic State and Women.

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(This mini-series of classics covers a few of my recent long posts, the ones that required a lot of hard work.  Each of them is of value abo...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Three Short And Scrumptious Economic Posts: On Income Inequality and Lack of Information. A Re-Posting.

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 (Originally posted here .  Everything in it still applies, income inequality is still growing and so on, and it's still worth your whil...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Motherhood Tuesday 3: How To Discuss Gender Roles in Survey Results

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That clumsy headline is an attempt to describe what I went through while studying a Pew survey on changes in the numbers of stay-at-home mo...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Research Monday 3. On Women And Men in the Labor Markets

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These two studies about men and women in the labor markets are worth reading, despite their focus on the upper classes. For a fairly goo...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

More Saturday Night Music

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Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre : I often think of that as the music of war.
Friday, August 14, 2015

Uber. On "New" Alternatives To Traditional Worker-Employer Arrangements. A Re-Posting

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(From last November .  More material has since cropped up about Uber, both good and bad.  See what Dean Baker plans to study when it come...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

From My Classics Archives: The Rotherham Report on Child Sexual Abuse

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(This mini-series of classics covers a few of my recent long posts, the ones that required a lot of hard work.  Each of them is of value abo...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Why Statistics Is Sexy. Or The Need to Distinguish Between Large and Small Numbers. A Re-Posting

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(Originally posted here .) I've always liked statistics as a science  but never thought it hawt and sexy.  Now I wish we could make s...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Moltherhood Tuesday 2: On Potential Motherhood And Research Biases in the Field

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This late 2013 post talks about a study which, among other things, tells us the reasons why almost all parenting studies are really abou...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Research Monday 2: Back to Girl And Boy Brains

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You might begin by reading a 2013 post I wrote about an extremely influential study and its reception.  Those argued that we have finally ...
Saturday, August 08, 2015

Saturday Night Music: Clara Schumann

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Clara Schumann (1819-1896) - Nocturne in F major Op.6 No.2 from 'Soirées Musicales' : Clara Schumann was married to the composer...
Friday, August 07, 2015

More Vacation Impressions: On Grrl Painters, Multiculturalism and the Sky

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I parked next to a painters' van.  Two house painters in their white overalls got out of it, both young women with long braids.  Not a...

The Ur-Slut and Pay-For-Your-Own Fornication. How Conservatives Respond to Worries About the Hobby Lobby Decision. A Re-Posting

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This post is roughly a year old by now, but it still reads well to me as my opinions about the ur-slut question:  the way conservatives vi...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

From My Classics Archives: The Day of Retribution. On Elliot Rodger, the Butcher of Santa Barbara

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(This mini-series of classics covers a few of my recent long posts, the ones that required a lot of hard work.  Each of them is of value abo...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Why Price Competition Doesn't Work in Most Health Care Markets. A Re-Posting.

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(This is from last December , but everything in it still applies.  Indeed, those conservatives who worship the free-market-gods should know...
Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Greetings from Yurp

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I forgot to put up the usual gone-to-the-beach post, to let you know  that  I'm on vacation.  This time I'm going to write a few po...

Motherhood Tuesday 1. How To Make Being A Mother More Difficult And Other Pertinent Issues

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The posts on the next four Tuesdays will be about research and media debates about motherhood.  Not about parenthood, mind you, but motherh...
Monday, August 03, 2015

Research Monday 1: On Retractions, Failures To Replicate and Other Bad Stuff

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You get a flavor of the problems salivating and short-sighted popularization of "sexy" studies can create from this post . I st...