My pile of Books to Read grew considerably over the past two months (though not as much as my pile of books to not read). Robert C. Allen’s Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution sounds interesting, though I’m not likely to get to it. It makes the argument that, comparatively, the […]
I spent a lot of a flight from London to Singapore reading Tragically I was an Only Twin, a well-edited collection of the comedy sketches, monologues and occasional journalism of Peter Cook. It turns out that Cook addressed many of the issues that preoccupy us at CT. Like intelligent design theory:
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling: Well, I’d […]
In the wake of the insta-criticism of the film The Day After Tomorrow> because it is a silly big-budget action movie and not a policy briefing paid for by the coal industry, CT will be providing further movie criticism along these lines. Reel in shock at The Fast and the Furious for its inaccurate picture […]
In Nottingham today, and I eventually found wireless access in the lobby of a rather better hotel than the one I’m staying in. Just time to note that, in the light of last weekend’s Eurovision song contest, my network analysis of voting is now both confirmed and redundant.[1] The introduction of the Eastern European bloc […]
My post about voting networks in the Eurovision led to a followup from Danyel Fisher, a grad student at Irvine who studies social networks. His weblog is has lots of interesting stuff, including a better-informed version of a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while about fingerprint databases. When the U.S. announced that […]
Remember to watch the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend. If you have no idea what this is, you can read my primer on the subject from last year.
Update: Never let it be said that the tools of empirical social science are not abused on this website. I decided to see whether my prejudices about the […]
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