Leon Wieseltier offers a great sermon against scientism. The question of the place of science in knowledge, and in society, and in life, is not a scientific question. Science confers no special authority, it confers no authority at all, for…
Journalism
Education, Interesting Links, Journalism
Links: Misapplications of math, journalism, AIDS, EB White, Pricing, Gifted Students
by Rafe Kinsey •
A tremendously sad story about skewed incentives that make certain people try to get AIDS. This is a pretty outrageous misapplication of mathematics to psychology. Journalism teachers on journalism school An interesting profile of several talented students in a magnet…
Journalism
A Suggestion for The Economist
by Rafe Kinsey •
The wonderful magazine The Economist has a two-page spread The world this week at the beginning of each issue with very short blurbs about the week’s news. I was reading the section this week when an idea came to me.…
Interesting Links, Journalism, Law, Science, Technology
Links: NSA, New Nobels, Marijuana Legalization, Corporations and the First Amendment, Roger Ebert, etc
by Rafe Kinsey •
A good article in Slate‘s Explainer column on what the legal repercussions would be for congressmen who revealed NSA secrets. An interesting article by Graeme Wood in New York magazine about online reputation management. Gene Weingarten, A story that could…
Interesting Links, Journalism
Interesting Articles, Links, Etc.
by Rafe Kinsey •
Some more links. Why do companies buy out startups just to get their employees, rather than just offering them higher salaries, which seems like it would be cheaper? An interesting article in the NYT gives some answers to this puzzle…
Interesting Links, Journalism
Interesting Links
by Rafe Kinsey •
I imagine in the blog that I will be sharing various links to articles, etc., that I find interesting. Perhaps lightly annotated. Rather than overburden your RSS feed or whatnot with too many individual entries (cough, cough Andrew Sullivan, who…