World’s on fire, world’s on fire/And it’s too close to the wire/World’s on fire, world’s on fire/And it’s about to expire — The Prodigy, “World’s On Fire” Watching the markets jump on President Obama’s advice that stocks are a good ba...

A new paper by Bilalic et al. (2009) (read the PDF here), tries to account for male superiority in chess by appealing to a statistical sampling argument: men make up a much larger fraction of chess players, and that the n highest extreme values -- say, the top ranked 100 players -- are expected to b...

It was only a matter of time before the The New Republic stopped being an inevitability in this little feature. Well, the time has come—just one week in! Let’s take a look what worthwhile things are afoot in these storied pages this week, for our new feature, Thursdays Are For Magazines. ...

Larry Summers may or may not be this administration's Cheney... but either way, the man is a dick. The problem is that Summers and Geithner seem to have retained their dispositional trust in the market and skepticism of public sector involvement. So instead of nationalizing banks, as many economists...

Munichs quantiques "Elles" ont eu sa peau. Le président de Harvard, Larry Summers, économiste notoire et ancien ministre de Clinton, a été contraint de démissionner. Son crime? Avoir émis des opinions non féministes. A savoir s'êtr...

Men with unusually long ring fingers are more likely to be either a successful stock trader, or gay. So what does that tell us about the government's wise men patching up the economy? A background on the science: Men typically have longer ring fingers than index fingers, while women's fingers are ev...

I never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Exxon on an environmental issue. The CEO, Rex Tillerson, called for a carbon tax yesterday. As the Wall Street Journal reported... Rex Tillerson said that a tax was a "more direct, a more transparent and a more effective approach" to curtailing greenhouse...

Following up on my post from yesterday, this article from TechPresident effectively encapsulates the slightly schizophrenic reactions you find among the left to Obama’s choices to run his government: Yet, Obama’s moves so far are exactly what he promised - “change” was regime...

One thing I think people forget about the idea of the change Obama brings is that it’s not just a change forward. In employing many former Clinton officials at every level of the Cabinet, Obama is also signaling he’s making some changes back. Now, this is by no means a bad thing–I ...

During the presidential campaign, we constantly heard from Team Obama and the media (excuse the redundancy) was how Republican-inspired deregulation had let evil bankers and capitalists run roughshod over the economy and created the current credit mess. Well, a lot of the deregulation was GOP-inspir...