Fight Entropy

Right at the intersection of geography and text analysis is this map by Derek Watkins showing what local  waterways are called across the...

It can be easy to let the abstract nature of research obscure the relevant aspects of your work. When you work in areas like development tha...

Nature Climate Change had a special feature article on climate and conflict  in the current issue. Perhaps more interesting than the cove...

The September issue of Physics Today has an excellent article on the use of analog (i.e., physical as opposed to electronic) computers to...

Once in a Starbucks I met a guy who worked in the US credit-rating industry and he told me that one of the biggest under-stated issues in th...

Another interesting 2010 PNAS article I missed: High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being Daniel Kahnema...

My sister just emailed me from France to tell me that all the vineyards they were visiting talked about weather modification via "hail ...

Some colleagues and I put together a new site that focuses on global-scale empirical research on links between environmental conditions, foo...

Well, not really "ruins," but it seems that the uncertainty principle  might be alive and well in social sciences too. I'm a b...

Two quick notes for code and stats -inclined Fight Entropy readers: Data Without Borders is holding their first event in New York next mont...

Sponsored by Fight-Entropy! (not really...)  The full preliminary program is here . Jan 07, 2012 2:30 pm , Swissotel, Vevey 1   Associati...

I know some people really love designing simulation games to educate people. I have no strong feelings on this and also have no idea if this...

Over the last two weeks, my coauthors and I have answered a lot of questions about the relationship between El Niño and future climate chan...

Tom Vogl  points us to a recent article of the NBER Reporter where Ted Miguel  thoughtfully lays out a brief review of links between weathe...

Here's a simple, elegant and important point about the economics of climate change, but it applies to other environmental changes equal...

Yesterday, a paper that I wrote with  Kyle Meng  and  Mark Cane  was published in the journal Nature : Civil conflicts are associated with...

Kyle Meng points us to this recent NBER working paper. See this related post  and this one too . Building Peace: The Impact of Aid on th...

Some links from the adventure journal  that I found and liked during my continuing ascent (descent?) into the blogosphere: - The climate o...

 Theories have four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense; 2. This is interesting, but perverse; 3. This is true, but quite ...

The New York Times and boingboing point out that Paul Meier, one of the first and loudest proponents of randomized trials in medicine, pas...