Readings for Wednesday Evening
How to name a dinosaur by David Orr (Scientific American)
‘Damn right,’ I said by Eliot Weinberger (London Review of Books)
A review of George W. Bush’s fiction.
2010 in Updates to the AP Stylebook (Boston Phoenix)
Tags: Evening Read
That reminds me @FakeAPStylebook is a funny account to follow on Twitter.
That London Review of Books review of Decision Points is delicious and worth a look.
Beyond Fear and Greed, very interesting coverage of Behavioral Finance. I am not big into the Behaviorial sciences ( more of a numbers person myself), but this is intersting because it is applied.
Though the flaw is that they use propositional logic to argue against the effienct market crowd, which is ironic for an author basing his research on behaviorial studies.
and “The VA; best care anywhere” by Phillip Longman. You want to know why we need health reform, this explains it. He points out that the VA provides superior care at a much lower cost than “free market competition”. And the VA is that Big Government that we are afraid of.