What Oil Prices Say

What Oil Prices Say

Oil has been the strategic asset since it was discovered.  The price of oil reflects everything from the underlying value of the US dollar, to the general level of industrial economic activity…
The Audacity of Economists

The Audacity of Economists

Economists of all stripes for the last generation have demonstrated their audacity time and time again, holding dearly onto their attempts to make Economics a hard science.  Though good…
Where did the Stimulus go?

Where did the Stimulus go?

Economists and Obama often wonder why the Stimulus didn't work.  Libertarians and the GOP think they know the answer, though they suffer from intellectual Fundamentalism of the same sort all…
Friday Fossil

Friday Fossil

This week's Friday Fossil is Helicoprion. What can I say. This is one weird bastard. And it used to look even weirder, The story is like this. At the turn of the last century, people started to…
Schroedinger's Burlesque 2.0

Schroedinger's Burlesque 2.0

Recently scientifically 2.0 so topical Schrödinger's cat jumped into being in the 1935 three-part article (in German) in Die Naturwissenschaften, just at the end of part one: Man kann auch ganz…
Excess ? What Excess ? ATLAS Clarifies.

Excess ? What Excess ? ATLAS Clarifies.

In a display of nonchalance that should teach us a thing or two, the ATLAS collaboration has put an end to the Easter Higgs Rumour (EHR), which brought the blogosphere in an excited state for at…
Too Much Information

Too Much Information

Events of International Year of Chemistry kept me from writing for some while. I was so absorbed with all the research writing these days, that I could not find space and time to read anything…