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Nov 19, 2015
It's been another month and now there's another study on the costs and benefits relating to flooding. This week's entry is Oregon State's Steven Dundas who writes on the costs and benefits…
Nov 17, 2015
YouTube can be an awfully weird place. I love a good story about something just a bit off-kilter. It could be the Solway Firth Spaceman or the Cooper Family Photograph, or the…
Nov 13, 2015
Last week, I was in a convenience store and the owner was watching a gameshow. I think it was Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but I am not sure. I am…
Nov 12, 2015
NPR's article is the latest in a series that asks how professors deal with cellphones and laptops in the classroom. I don't include anything in my syllabi about it, but I usually…
Nov 10, 2015
There's a great article in Natural Hazards called "Flood recovery and property acquisition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa" by Eric Tate, Aaron Strong, Travis Kraus, and Haoyi Xiong, on the value of buying…
Nov 8, 2015
I just uploaded a draft research note on Bitcoin mining pools to SSRN. The note is an extension of the logic behind this blog post on the topic. Image by Jonathan Waller…
Nov 6, 2015
Cracked has a bit listicle on things Hollywood thinks are more dangerous than they are and the list starts with scorpions, which are mostly harmless. It gets into the relative risk, a…
Nov 5, 2015
As part of my public finance course course for public administrators, we have been looking at the problem of food deserts in Baltimore. There was an interesting story on Marketplace on Tuesday…
Nov 2, 2015
I nominated myself, this evening, for the new Academic Advisory Board at the University of Maryland University College. See my statement, here: I am James Howard and I am running for UMUC's…
Oct 30, 2015
Slashdot has a link to a story on how it has become substantially more difficult to write software and how this is discouraging children from taking on programming. Even at the "Hello…
Oct 28, 2015
Following last week's discussion of John Adams and 1776 , we made the kids listen to the soundtrack on a car trip over weekend. Also, we used the 1997 revival with Brent…