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Bruce Charlton is Back!

Bruce Charlton is blogging again after being fired from his job as editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses. Charlton is responsible for introducing me to the existing literature on conscientiousness and other quantifiable personality traits, so I feel indebted to him. I also admire his willingness to stand on principle

Arizona's Immigration Woes

In the recent unpleasantness about SB 1070, a great many nasty things have been said about Arizona and Arizonans. However, the information at hand indicates that of those Americans who have heard of SB 1070, a majority favor it, and even of those who haven't, a plurality favor

Corn Syrup and Rats

Corn Syrup and Rats

Steve Kamb at Nerdfitness posted a link on Facebook about a study that supposedly proves that high-fructose corn syrup makes you fat. I've always been pretty dubious about the bad rap that HFCS gets, and Archer-Daniels-Midland didn't even pay to have me say that. I'

Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Slate has a review of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System. I found a lot of good information in Ravitch's earlier book, The Language Police, so I may have to read this one as well. Ravitch recently created

Efficiency and Expertise

John D Cook links to a couple of zingers on efficiency in the workplace. I've been thinking about these sorts of things a lot recently, but I really like it when somebody pokes holes in Malcolm Gladwell's foolishness. Yes, for God's sake, 10,000

Number of Catholic Priests Increasing Worldwide

I always like it when my intellectual obsessions intersect. Here we have the conjunction of Catholicism and statistics, from Jimmy Akin. The number of priests and seminarians is up worldwide, according to the Annuario Pontifico (Pontifical Yearbook). “What about priests and seminarians?” They’re up, too, worldwide. According to the