Cranial Darwinism

Let me share with you a truly horrible bit of data analysis. Inspired by the analysis of 9/11 in Nate Silver's book, I plotted the mean ...

It's an interesting question - how would you answer it?  Having recently read Kahneman's Thinking Slow and Fast I suspect most peop...

Some sort of local tipping point as people read about the ozone decision - now even my friends are fed up with Obama. The first year or...

Tom Mitchell's "Never Ending Learning System" is set up to Tweet a random selection of facts is extracts from the web. Recent...

I have to admit, I'm fascinated by the dynamics of how information is pushed around the Web. The academic work on this seems to mostly ...

After a bunch of Facebook comments back and forth an old friend of mine pointed me to this article ...which presents a more market-oriented ...

I just listened to Obama's speech in Cairo from last week: with all the noise about it, I haven't heard anything posted about what ...