Bluematter.

The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagi...

Already, quite soon after he had come to Rothamstead, his presence had transformed one commonplace tea time to an historic event. It happ...

The moral condemnation directed towards the Greeks is the saddest aspect of this financial crisis, and it says a lot more about the givers t...

How to bid on eBay . No, you don't just enter your valuation and relax. Why men are better at mathematics and engineering. Eugene F...

The Foundations of Statistics : A Simulation-based Approach. Nice intro to R too. A course in Bayesian Econometrics , by Gary Koop.

Gary Becker, 2008: We're not headed for a depression . 'World economic growth will recover once we are over the present severe finan...

DeLong, December 2008 : Think of it this way: two years ago we lived in a world in which the wealth of global owners of capital was some...

The recession does not exist: individuals’ lived experience tells us little about macroeconomic phenomena such as booms and slumps. These ar...

At school, our kids are rated and ranked far more often than most adults will tolerate, even though this actually slows their learning! It s...

Clearing Out My Closet season continues, this time with a number of interesting posts from Andrew Gelman: Uh.. Um.. I [Mark Liberman] too...

In a 2003 study at Harvard, Dr. Carson and other researchers tested students’ ability to tune out irrelevant information when exposed to a b...

OK, this is geeky - but love it. Source .

A mosque is where Muslim people learn, read and pray.Where I go with my little brothers we have to pay 2 pounds each week for learning every...

I'm looking to buy myself a nixie tube clock for (late) Christmas and ran into these awesome designs .