I found this on Rachel Maddow’s blog. Snaps to whoever it was that posted it. Google has been scanning books like an arch villain hellbent on overtaking the world, and now they’ve introduced a fun query tool for public use. Called ngram viewer, you can enter a couple of text keywords and get a fun [...]
All posts for the month December, 2010
Wonky Playtime
Posted by admin on December 19, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/12/wonky-playtime/
The Jacobin Club
I’ve been thinking a lot about The Jacobin Club lately. Partly because I’ve been criticizing the Tea Party for being closeted French radicals, and partly because both sides of the ideological spectrum in America seem to have lost their foundations. Not because of the spectacular flame-out that the Jacobins brought upon themselves, alienating their movement [...]
Posted by admin on December 15, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/12/the-jacobin-club/
The Liberal Gene
Something interesting has been happening in the study of gene-environment interactions. The October issue of The Journal of Politics published a paper entitled “Friendships Moderate an Association between a Dopamine Gene Variant and Political Ideology” (by Settle, Dawes, Christakis and Fowler.) In short, biologists have found that a gene is helpful in predicting political ideology. [...]
Posted by admin on December 6, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/12/the-liberal-gene/
The ‘Too Big to Fail’ Debate
I came across this blog post by Stanford economist Anat Admati, explaining the germane issues of banking regulation, in light of the recent Basel III conference. It’s accessible and important information that will inform the debate over too-big-to-fail regulation. You can also watch her interviewed on the Bloomberg network. Anat Admati Says Banks Should Increase [...]
Posted by admin on December 5, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/12/the-too-big-to-fail-debate/
Jacobinism Consumes the GOP
Ready for today’s dose of Jacobinism? For those of you who might be new to the term, it described the French radicals who toppled the monarchy of Louis XVI and removed the heads of anyone who blinked both eyes simultaneously. The term is usually reserved for radicals on the Left, but it so aptly describes [...]
Posted by admin on December 1, 2010
http://www.born2synthesize.com/2010/12/jacobinism-consumes-the-gop/