Bad Karma-geddon? Conjecture, Construction and Congestion in L.A.
…2011 in Los Angeles, California. The bridge is being demolished as part of a $1 billion project to add carpool lanes and make other improvements along the 405 freeway from…
…2011 in Los Angeles, California. The bridge is being demolished as part of a $1 billion project to add carpool lanes and make other improvements along the 405 freeway from…
…ahead by $62. And that was in 2009. While the price for a weekly pass has since increased to $29, the cost of the fine has not, so in 2011…
…the 18 months before and after warming events between 2000 and 2011. “The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the…
…9.3 million. The game has paid off its full jackpot just once since 2004, and has so far generated $11.8 million in profits in 2011, though it accounts for just…
…the supply and demand of predictions. You’ll hear from Joseph Prusacki, the head of U.S.D.A’s Statistics Division, who’s gearing up for his first major crop report of 2011 (the street…
Beauty Pays is out!! (Princeton University Press, 2011, available from the Press, or either hardbound or Kindle version). Its central point is that beauty affects outcomes in markets because it…
…of members with a bachelor’s degree or higher, and the fiscal budget deficit as a percentage of 2011 spending on the y. California has the most educated legislature in the…
…legislatures. According to a Guttmacher Institute survey, of the 162 reproductive health provisions passed in the first six months of 2011, 80 restrict abortion, twice the number from 2005. …
…$10,000 (in 2011 dollars) [H. E. Bell, The Price of Books in Medieval England, Library s4-XVII (3):312-332 (1936)]. This cost makes sense: Copying a book by hand might take a…
…seems to be plenty of optimism about the future share price. Check out the odds from Irish bookmaker Paddy Power on where Apple’s stock price will end 2011. …
…for a demonstration at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on April 8, 2011, two months after president Hosni Mubarak was ousted, to demand that former regime officials including the veteran strongman be…
(Comstock) Does media concentration lead to biased coverage? A new paper from two Berkeley economists, Stefano Delavigna and Alec Kennedy, studies News Corp. and Time Warner, and approaches the big…
…major change in the America Invents Act of 2011: a shift in the patent priority rules from the United States’ traditional “first-to-invent” system to the dominant “first-to-file” system. This is…
…the Open Government Partnership, launched by US president Barack Obama at the UN General Assembly in September 2011. In a Q&A, Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Kenya’s information and communications minister, discusses…
Photo: BlatantWorld.com Next Monday, the Nobel Prize Committee will announce the recipient(s) of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. If you think you know who’s going to score this…
This Freaky stat comes courtesy of reader Benjamin Bias, who brought to our attention this oddity, as noted by Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider: Yesterday, Oct. 3, 2011, the S&P…
(iStockphoto) We blogged recently about the challenges of communicating scientific uncertainty to the public, especially when it comes to climate science. The October 2011 issue of Physics Today contains yet…
…a reduction of $5,500 or 22% from 2011-12 tuition of $25,000. Tuition for new freshmen and undergraduate transfer students will be $19,500. Tuition for returning undergraduates next year will be…
…in 1999 by German artist Andreas Gursky, beat out Cindy Sherman‘s previous photo auction record of $3.89 million in May, 2011. We can’t repost an image of it, copyright and…
…based on 2011 sales at STR Marketplace, a website authorized by the Steelers to allow fans to buy and sell seat licenses. A seat license that went for $500 in…
…been stimulated by the financial crisis will not be apparent until data for 2011 are available. There are of course, many (many many many!) other factors to consider, as there…
…and author Atul Gawande in a 2011 article for The New Yorker. “But the capabilities of doctors matter every bit as much as the technology. This is true of all…
…lockout – will finally open its 2011-12 season with a slate of five games. Although NBA fans are pleased the lockout has ended, they’d probably prefer that it had never…
…October 30, 2011. (Photo: One of the arguments both for and against Tim Tebow as a viable, long-term NFL starter is the idea that he should simply not be doing…
…in guaranteed money. Then came the lockout, and a new deal between the owners and players. In 2011, the top three picks (Cam Newton, Von Miller, and Marcell Dareus) each…
We’ve had the good fortune over the last few years here at the blog to bring you occasional nuggets from University of Arizona economist Price Fishback, whose research on the…
…many magazines. Now comes news that fatal shark attacks in 2011 “reached their highest level in two decades,” with 12 deaths. But my guess is that this won’t inspire another…
…led to a full-blown crisis in the fall of 2008.” And a broad, if not unanimous, consensus among economists suggests that the ongoing economic malaise was induced by a financial…
…political; others are emotional. We generally look over such critiques to see if they contain worthwhile feedback, or point to an error in need of correction. But for the most…
…and Ali have derived. What we have here is an illustration of what has more generally been called “false positive science” by Joseph Simmons and colleagues in a 2011 paper….