Fight Entropy

I'm in a rush, so I will explain this better later. But Andrew Gelman posted my idea for a type of visually-weighted regression that ...

I've posted about high temperature inducing individuals to exhibit more violent behavior when driving ,   playing baseball and prowling ...

There's been lots of talk about Hanson's work attributing extremes weather events to climate change. For a summary of some of our e...

That's the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures. In my 2010 PNAS paper , I found that labor-int...

Following up on my earlier post describing visually weighted regression  (paper here ) and  some suggestions from Andrew Gelman and others ...

David Lobell  mentioned that there seemed to be less news coverage of the drought, so I checked  Google Trends  and David was right. Looking...

[This is the overdue earth-shattering sequel to  this earlier post .] I recently posted this working paper online. It's very short...

David Lobell ,  Michael Roberts ,  Wolfram Schlenker ,  Jarrod Welch  and I have started a blog on  Global Food, Environment and Economic Dy...

Once while presenting this paper on temperature's influence on economic performance , someone in the audience asked whether any of the o...

1)  Anesthesiologist Fabricates 172 Papers  (via Michael Clemens ) 2)  This much I know: Daniel Kahneman  (via MR ) 3) Tatyana Deryugina...

There are many things we can do to make our research clearer to readers: make our text well organized and accessible,   make clear graphs ,...

Mark Cane sends us this: ROMEO and JULIET         ACT 3, SCENE 1a   [A street. MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO & Servants]   BENVOLIO I pray...

Predictability of population displacement after the 2010 Haiti earthquake Xin Lu, Linus Bengtsson, and Petter Holme Abstract: Most sever...

Everyone knows the famous images of  earth rise  taken from the moon, but I surprised to run across this earlier amazing 1955 image from spa...

This is a guest post by Daniel P. Aldrich , associate professor of public policy at Purdue University. Prof. Aldrich was  an American Associ...

1) On giving (bad) advice to kings  (via bb ) 2) The epidemiological transition as illustrated by cause of death (NEJM, also via bb ) 3...

I don't usually read Nature Neuroscience, but this is an interesting neuro-economics piece. Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal c...

This is an interesting data set and a neat reduced-form result, although I think the mechanism is less clear than the authors suggest. I als...

1) Ironspread: Scripting Excel using Python 2) Is Chagas Disease the "New HIV/AIDS of the Americas"? ( PLoS Neglected Tropical ...

I ran into this 2008 paper doing hurricane work with Jesse. The results are not extremely surprising, but I really liked how they displayed ...