Stop worry about China already!
Konstantin Kakaes tells us to chill out and stop worrying about Chinese science: The bible of the competitiveness crowd is a National Academy of Sciences report...
Konstantin Kakaes tells us to chill out and stop worrying about Chinese science: The bible of the competitiveness crowd is a National Academy of Sciences report...
I’m sure that Matt Yglesias has forgotten more economics in the past hour than I will ever know. And yet, he believes that “if spending on military ...
Several liberal bloggers protested the Times suggestion that cutting the Defense budget will reduce innovation. While some of their points are well-taken (the D...
Another quick link to another blog. Check out Financial Times columnist Tim Hartford calling for more experimentation and risk-taking: I think our system for pr...
Light blogging week this week. But check out Farhad Manjoo, who insists that Mark Zuckerberg, not anyone else, invented Facebook and deserves the credit. I̵...
Here’s David Rothkopf at Foreign Policy parroting the standard (and careless) meme that there is a simple, straightforward link between scientific product...
A few days ago several bloggers felt it necessary to discuss the scientific status of economics (see Ryan Avent, Adam Ozimek, Matt Yglesias, and Jim Manzi). Aft...
My last post discussed Lehrer’s column on the increased difficulty of making scientific discoveries. Lehrer should have stuck with that topic alone instea...
Jonah Lehrer has again written a provacative piece, arguing that growing collaboration and teamwork among scientists is a response to “all the low-hanging...
I should have linked to this earlier, but here’s the webcast and white papers from a 2-day NSF workshop on the science of science measurement. Rush Holt...