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Archive for July 2009
A better class of spam
July 30, 2009Just got hit with someone promoting an article they’ve just written in an area about which I know passing little, and which may be total bollocks — though its so far out of my area of interest right now I’m not even going to dig deep enough to check. This happens quite a bit — [...]
On Isaac Newton and the need to regulate the financial markets
July 30, 2009Yesterday CNN.com published my op-ed. in which I told the story of Isaac Newton’s catastrophic losses in the stock market during the South Sea Bubble of 1720. That piece is a distillation of a section in my book, Newton and the Counterfeiter (Amazon, Powells,Barnes and Noble, Indiebound) in which I discuss, inter alia, Newton’s role in the [...]
Another Newton and the Counterfeiter note: I like Carl Zimmer’s taste in books/Nature department
July 30, 2009Nothing is as satisfying as the praise of one’s colleagues — especially the really good ones — which is why Nature’s Summer Books feature in the July 30 issue is so delightful. There Carl Zimmer has this to say about Newton and the Counterfeiter (Amazon, Powells,Barnes and Noble, Indiebound): Imagine Isaac Newton as a policeman, using his brilliant [...]
A Quicky Follow – Up to the last McArdle Post…on McArdle v. Palin
July 29, 2009Much has been made of the bizarrely almost beautiful incomprehensibility of ex-Governor Palin’s farewell speech. There’s something of the same — without the beauty, in Megan McArdle’s praised (by Sullivan) attempt to justify her reflexive rejection of health care sector reform. Check out this paragraph and tell me if you can figure out what the [...]
Why Andrew Sullivan is right about Megan McArdle, but not in the way he thinks.
July 29, 2009I very rarely read Megan McArdle. She gets filtered by the “life is too short to read stupid people” mesh. Specifically, in the area in which she claims expertise, economics, especially political economy she has neither formal training (Lit degree as an undergraduate, and an MBA for post-graduate work) nor any demonstration of subsequently acquired [...]
Some Review Action…Why We Love Students Edition
July 28, 2009I’ve got a bunch of reviews of Newton and the Counterfeiter to acknowledge, but as I’m in the depths of packing up my home of fifteen years and can’t string more than one or two sentences together at a time, let me just here point you to one that popped up yesterday that is sweet [...]
Kindle! Newton! Together at Last.
July 27, 2009The Kindle editon of Newton and the Counterfeiter is now available for purchase/download. Better late than never. Not all is perfection, yet. The dead tree page for Newton at Amazon still shows the Kindle edition as unavailable, and the Kindle page has no cover image nor any of the other apparatus from the main page: [...]
Best Health Care Note of the Day
July 25, 2009From Sadly No: PS DID YOU KNOW – if you averaged eight hours of sleep over your lifetime, but I average seven, I haved live an average of 13.6 years longer conscious life than you, but you were better rested. What happens if, like me, you get 6-7 hours of sleep and spend most days [...]
Friday Fun: Nudity, Sex, Beaches (SFW)
July 24, 2009I actually found this clip because of an actual professional interest. (yeah: and you get magazine X for the articles, right? — ed.) Several higher end still cameras are turning themselves into HD video cameras, and generally with much better optics than the basic consumer camcorders. With an interest in low-budget and more importantly, low [...]
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