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links: health care, creepy, GOP, race, IQ, fertility, 'Egan'
I'm back. Have three weeks of collected links!
Cool or important stuff
* Krugman (and 9 page Kenneth Arrow PDF) on why markets fail at health care.
* Jimmy Carter breaks with Baptists over gender equality. He's for it.
* Yet another article on the plural 'they'. This one is new in describing whom to blame for the idea that it's bad.
* Racial whitewashing of covers.
* House of Representatives size over time
* Creepy vintage ads
* Some people say rich people are fleeing California due to high taxes. They're wrong. A lot of people have been gloating about people leaving California; none have acknowledged California's population perhaps unsustainably in dot-com and housing bubbles.
* Prenatal air pollution lowers IQ. Ah, poor people, getting shafted even before they're born. "Just work harder!"
* Replacement fertility isn't a constant 2.1. It's approximately the reciprocal of (chance of a girl being born)*(chance a girl will survive to average age of maternity). So given 50% ratio but 50% chance of survival, the average woman would have to have 1/(.5*.5)=4 children just to keep the population going. Current numbers go from 2.05 to over 3.
** Decadent liberal countries having more children
* Obama did get more young voters to turn out.
* Law and order in the West Bank. But some people think they should be expelled.
* Bus rapid transit. Speaking of Third World megacity sprawl, it seems to me that much of LA is well-adapted to rapid busways, e.g. there are spare lanes to hijack.
* If you listened to the media, you'd never think Nobel-winning economists worry the stimulus is too small.
* Poland weathering the recession
Krugman/Stiglitz dump
article on Stiglitz
http://www.newsweek.com/id/207390
Krugman on it
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/morning-joe/
Newsweek on Krugman
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191393?tid=relatedcl
column excerpts
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191398?tid=relatedcl
female Japanese 'Krugman'
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204874?tid=relatedcl
GOP news
* Another day, another GOP sex scandal. Physical assault is a footnote to sex with an intern. But hey, no gay or wetsuits, so fairly tame for the GOP.
* Senator DeMint exhibits Obama Derangement Syndrome
* The "We're not racist" party strikes again, with Obamacare as witch doctor.
* RNC head Steele: Government can't make jobs, private jobs don't go away
* Data on the dangers of driving with cell phones was suppressed.
* Long term progressive demographics? Though triumphalism feels risky.
* Pat Buchanan: GOP needs more race-baiting.
* Conservative judicial activism. Sidenote: the GOP cries of "judge-made law" always struck me as odd. How do they think our English common law tradition works?
* Cheney and CIA secrecy from Congress
Health and health care
Singer on rationing health care
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html
brain and exhaustion; swishing sugars reduces fatigue
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/going-all-out/
racing cycling can hurt bones
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/is-bicycling-bad-for-your-bones/
balance training and avoiding ankle strain
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/how-to-fix-bad-ankles/
short high-stress exercise could work as well for fitness as long
workouts
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/can-you-get-fit-in-six-minutes-a-week/
More random
* Greyhound's stations by state shows uniquely few for Indiana given our size. Now I'm really pissed; I'd thought they cut small towns everywhere but compare us to Montana or Wyoming.
* Parody of Greg Egan
* God in state constitutions
* Video game company EA declares open season on bikini booth babes.
* Associated Press trying to get money from headlines
* If Blue Dog Democrats can't vote for health care, what CAN they vote for?
* Advanced graffiti, with Mucha
* Iranian demographics
Cool or important stuff
* Krugman (and 9 page Kenneth Arrow PDF) on why markets fail at health care.
* Jimmy Carter breaks with Baptists over gender equality. He's for it.
* Yet another article on the plural 'they'. This one is new in describing whom to blame for the idea that it's bad.
* Racial whitewashing of covers.
* House of Representatives size over time
* Creepy vintage ads
* Some people say rich people are fleeing California due to high taxes. They're wrong. A lot of people have been gloating about people leaving California; none have acknowledged California's population perhaps unsustainably in dot-com and housing bubbles.
* Prenatal air pollution lowers IQ. Ah, poor people, getting shafted even before they're born. "Just work harder!"
* Replacement fertility isn't a constant 2.1. It's approximately the reciprocal of (chance of a girl being born)*(chance a girl will survive to average age of maternity). So given 50% ratio but 50% chance of survival, the average woman would have to have 1/(.5*.5)=4 children just to keep the population going. Current numbers go from 2.05 to over 3.
** Decadent liberal countries having more children
* Obama did get more young voters to turn out.
* Law and order in the West Bank. But some people think they should be expelled.
* Bus rapid transit. Speaking of Third World megacity sprawl, it seems to me that much of LA is well-adapted to rapid busways, e.g. there are spare lanes to hijack.
* If you listened to the media, you'd never think Nobel-winning economists worry the stimulus is too small.
* Poland weathering the recession
Krugman/Stiglitz dump
article on Stiglitz
http://www.newsweek.com/id/207390
Krugman on it
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/morning-joe/
Newsweek on Krugman
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191393?tid=relatedcl
column excerpts
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191398?tid=relatedcl
female Japanese 'Krugman'
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204874?tid=relatedcl
GOP news
* Another day, another GOP sex scandal. Physical assault is a footnote to sex with an intern. But hey, no gay or wetsuits, so fairly tame for the GOP.
* Senator DeMint exhibits Obama Derangement Syndrome
* The "We're not racist" party strikes again, with Obamacare as witch doctor.
* RNC head Steele: Government can't make jobs, private jobs don't go away
* Data on the dangers of driving with cell phones was suppressed.
* Long term progressive demographics? Though triumphalism feels risky.
* Pat Buchanan: GOP needs more race-baiting.
* Conservative judicial activism. Sidenote: the GOP cries of "judge-made law" always struck me as odd. How do they think our English common law tradition works?
* Cheney and CIA secrecy from Congress
Health and health care
Singer on rationing health care
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html
brain and exhaustion; swishing sugars reduces fatigue
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/going-all-out/
racing cycling can hurt bones
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/is-bicycling-bad-for-your-bones/
balance training and avoiding ankle strain
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/how-to-fix-bad-ankles/
short high-stress exercise could work as well for fitness as long
workouts
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/can-you-get-fit-in-six-minutes-a-week/
More random
* Greyhound's stations by state shows uniquely few for Indiana given our size. Now I'm really pissed; I'd thought they cut small towns everywhere but compare us to Montana or Wyoming.
* Parody of Greg Egan
* God in state constitutions
* Video game company EA declares open season on bikini booth babes.
* Associated Press trying to get money from headlines
* If Blue Dog Democrats can't vote for health care, what CAN they vote for?
* Advanced graffiti, with Mucha
* Iranian demographics