10 Oct 2012

10 Oct 2012

Turn Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch into a Webcam for Your Computer

igHome Totally Looks and Works Like iGoogle -- Replacements for iGoogle "home" page

Why Your 4-Year-Old Is As Smart as Nate Silver And if kids are so smart, why are adults so stupid about statistics?

Nate Silver’s Climate Chapter And What We Can Learn From It By Climate Guest Blogger

• The Number of Things Nate Silver Gets Wrong About Climate Change  by Michael E. Mann

Does Extreme Inequality Hurt Growth? by David Frum -- Jonathan Rauch discusses the evidence for an unsettling possibility: that the recent trend to extreme inequality in the U.S. economy may be crimping economic growth.

Micro, Macro, Meso, and Meta Economics Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng

Partisan Bias and Economic Forecasts By BRUCE BARTLETT

Misguided “Fiscal Cliff” Fears Pose Challenges to Productive Budget Negotiations
Failure to Extend Tax Cuts Before January Will Not Plunge Economy into Immediate Recession

• Q&A: Understanding the Fiscal Cliff By JONATHAN WEISMAN (Economix)

 How the Internet will (one day) transform government, Clay Shirky at TED

The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing By Cory Doctorow