A week ago, it got out that an 80-year-old white guy made some racist comments. Considering that such an even was unprecedented in American history, the Internet blew up and the People called for blood. A few days later, LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned for life from the NBA and fined $2.5 million. … [Read more…]
A recent post on the Goodreads Blog explored the question of whether stories in books are better than their adapted movies, noting that half of this year’s Academy Award Best Picture nominees were based on books. The good folks at Goodreads tried to get an objective view by comparing a set of books’ average ratings … [Read more…]
Tim Harford, the self-proclaimed “Undercover Economist,” wrote an interesting column the other day at Financial Times about how television broadcasting has changed through technology. Harford’s post, partly inspired from a talk given by University of Toronto economics professor Joshua Gans, claims that television programming has evolved primarily because of two technologies developed over the last … [Read more…]
As the Supreme Court gears up to hear oral arguments about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – pejoratively referred to by some as “Obamacare” – I’ve been reading up various commentaries and blog posts about the potential constitutionality. For example, NPR has a good, uncharged guide to the questions involved. However, my favorite … [Read more…]