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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 12 hrs ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 1 day ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 1 day ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 2 days ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 2 days ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 3 days ago
- More updates...
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Tag Archives: Travel & Places
JetBlue +
What would make JetBlue even better than it already is? As an aside, I love flying Jet Blue, and racked up over 40 flights on the airline last year, but it is already showing cracks in its customer service. I hope they don’t let that continue to slide. Back to the topic: what would make [...]
Best lived cities
Following on my earlier West Coast / East Coast post, I was interested to see Mercer’s Quality-of-Living Report for global cities. Setting New York as 100.0 (Center of the Universe, remember?), it ranks a few US cities as better, including Honolulu (103.3), San Francisco (103.2), Boston (101.9), DC (100.4), Chicago (100.4), and Portland (100.3). Vancouver [...]
East Coast v. West Coast / one love
I recently wrote about how I was torn between two “homes”: SoCal and NYC. Having just spent a bit of time in “the OC,” I have refreshed my memory for comparisons. How do they stack up? 1. Transportation I love being able to walk out my door and hop on a subway. The idea of [...]
Where’s home
Kevin comments on the nature of a home. For a long time, home has been where I hang my hat. When people ask “Where are you from?” I don’t have a good answer. I usually answered “everywhere,” but that led to lengthy questioning. The truth is, the longest I’ve lived anywhere was the five years [...]
London
The events in London today are horrible. On the bright side — if there is one — Londoners seem to have handled the crisis extraordinarily well. The best we can do, as Americans and individuals, is what we would do with any friend, let them know that we are saddened by the tragedy (a word [...]
A Dire Warning
People of the world, It gives me no joy to be the bearer of such news, but scientists from around the world have recently informed me that they have done the calculations, and an object of tremendous size is on a collision course with our home. I am convinced that we will witness a near [...]
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