Verisimilitudes

I was going to start an original series on “verisimilitudes”, ideas that appear true and persist in

Poor Economics

I just finished reading “Poor Economics” by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both MIT economics professors. The
I finally finished reading “Moonwalking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer, where he documents his quest to win
For those who have heard that scientists in the 1970′s believed a new Ice Age was imminent,

Sects of Islam

I have to admit that although I first heard the terms “Sunni Muslims” and “Shia Muslims” years
I’ve been a subscriber of Scientific American (paper, not online) for several years. For various reasons, I

A note on polling

I just saw a story claiming that TSA agents are developing cancer from working near the body scanner machines