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May 23, 2005
Round-Up
More and more it seems like I've seen everything on the web. I'm not sure how this could have happened. I remember sitting in my dorm room the first month of college (October 1996) and marveling at the wonders of the internet. How on earth could I possibly read everything it had to offer? And yet, here I sit, with no real work to do (or at least, no work that seems appealing) and nothing to browse.
And yet, there have been some interesting finds lately:
Gastroporn - Courtesy of the Vegetarian Society (via Grist). I can't explain the amusement--just go watch the 30-second advertisement.
The Apollo Alliance - The Apollo Alliance is a broad coalition within the labor, environmental, business, urban, and faith communities in support of good jobs and energy independence. It has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO and 23 international labor unions as well as a majority of national environmental organizations. The Alliance is developing public education campaigns and communications strategies to link allies and build a new national constituency for a bold, broad based, and immediate program of public policy to achieve energy independence.
Freakonomics Blog - Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded young scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life-from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing - and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: Freakonomics.
Comments
Perhaps you haven't seen this:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4556632
A potential reading list.
Posted by: La at May 23, 2005 10:38 PM
