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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Evangelicals – The Ghost of Abner E. Norman, or, The Halloween Song
The Halloween Song by Evangelicals
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Tagged Abner E Norman, Brian Kerr, Evangelicals, Halloween, Indiana, music, Oklahoma, Twosyllable Records, WIUX
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When a wolf pack kills a deer, the wolves get one of the weakest animals. When a human kills a deer, we kill one of the strongest animals. Park Ranger Katy, in Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Tagged biology, death, evolution, facts, food, hunting, natural selection, nature, survival of the fittest, Trophy Hunter, trophy hunting, veganism, vegetarianism
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http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=ss_w_mpw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhiremebecauim-20%2F8014%2F1fbd7598-44d2-4d6f-a349-ccd34b694f38&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate Ain’t No Grave performed by Richard Buckner original (Source: http://ws.amazon.com/)
My sister isn’t “irrational”, her utility function just has large interaction terms.
What happens if, instead of doing a linear regression with sums of monomial terms, you do the complete opposite? Instead of regressing the phenomenon against , you regressed the phenomenon against an explanation like ? I first thought of this question several years ago whilst living … Continue reading
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Tagged bad day, catastrophe theory, complexity, econometrics, emotions, feminism, good day, holism, mappings, mathematical modelling, mathematics, ODE's, operators, parsimony, psychology, reductionism, regression, regression analysis, separability, separation of variables, simplicity, statistics, tipping points, utility theory
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Fair Trade cocoa price, 1996-2006 You can see from the above graph that fair trade certifiers aim not just to raise, but to raise and stabilise the price a farmer or cooperative receives for produce. Fact: There are many fair trade certifying … Continue reading
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Tagged basic facts, basic_facts, business, cocoa, coffee, commodity trading, economics, facts, Fair Trade, markets, Starbucks
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Do [people] achieve the optimal allocation of [their] time…? My answer is no; people allocate a disproportionate amount of time to the pursuit of pecuniary rather than nonpecuniary objectives, as well as to “comfort” and positional goods, and shortchange goals … Continue reading
by Peter Saville, via planetaryfolklore, s-s-s, humanhand (Source: http://src.pyramd.com/27282)
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?showShareButtons=true&docId=-2604466457908048048%3A2086000%3A1205000&hl=en “There’s always been an alliance between anarchy and anthropology, simply because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible. There’s been plenty of them. They work fine.”—David Graeber “Anthropology, I think, is the only discipline which really … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarchy, anthropology, Charlie Rose, David Graeber, direct action, economics, Madagascar, philosophy, political philosophy, politics, protest
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While the black and white populations of the United States have long differed in various social and economic variables — in income, years of schooling, life expectancy, unemployment rates, crime rates, and scores on a variety of tests — so … Continue reading
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Tagged 4-D, African Americans, age, blacks, Cambodian Americans, Caucasian Americans, discrimination, economics, ethnicity, facts, gerontology, health, heritage, Hmong Americans, income, Japanese Americans, logic, mean, median, probability, race, United States, whites
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Human Mathematics 