Fight Entropy

Andrew Gelman has a thought-provoking post on asking "Why?" in statistics : Consider two broad classes of inferential questions...

In this week's Nature : We calculate that the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge, because the region is pivotal to the functio...

Injection-Induced Earthquakes William L. Ellsworth Abstract: Earthquakes in unusual locations have become an important topic of discussio...

1) "Exposure of children to toxic lead, and the subsequent declines in IQ and earning potential, costs the developing world nearly $1 ...

After 5 (or 6?) rounds of revisions (a lesson to anyone thinking of writing an interdisciplinary review article...), this is finally publish...

I introduced "watercolor regression" here on FE several months ago, after some helpful discussions with Andrew Gelman and our re...

Blum Center for Developing Economies  has a now program for Global Poverty and Practice Post Doctoral Fellows . (Applications deadline = J...

Now posted as an NBER working paper (it should be out in REEP this summer): Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analy...

Impulse: Hurricane Katrina, as pictured in the Gulf of Mexico at 21:45 UTC on August 28, 2005. Response: This map illustrates t...

1)  FasteR! HigheR! StrongeR! - A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People  (via R-bloggers ) 2) African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell...

A conference at Columbia's Lamont campus this week, if you find yourself in the NYC area. Climate Change: Recent Discoveries and Futur...

Here's an initiative that will suit FE readers: More than a hundred scientific societies, universities, research institutes, and organ...

Last week, Andrew Solow published a Nature comment  titled "A call for peace on climate and conflict." In the article, Solow raise...

If the goal of our work is to improve global human welfare, we should be finding ways to measure it. The Expression of Emotions in 20th Ce...

 Figure 1a: Hopefulness, 93rd percentile A few weeks ago the economics blogs and popular press picked up a forthcoming JPE paper on ch...

1) On causal entropy 2) The Asian monsoon is getting predictable (via Kyle Meng ) 3) Dognition (via Dave Pell ) 4) Autism associ...

Effects of Rural Sanitation on Infant Mortality and Human Capital: Evidence from India's Total Sanitation Campaign Dean Spears Abstr...

A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety Terrie E. Moffitt et al. Abstract: Policy-makers are cons...

Ever been sitting by a window in the space station and feel annoyed that clouds are obstructing your view? Charlie Lyod and Chris Herwig of...

Elephant dung density and range reduction across the Central African forests. 1) Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at Older Ag...