Aug 21, 2013
My letter in Significance Magazine...
Our Boo-boo In an unsigned article on xkcd, the authors pity readers who do not recognize “What’s up, Doc?” Like the authors, Yogi Bear may be “smarter than the av-er-age bear” (which,…
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Jun 1, 2013
Unboxing Tyvek and Woven Polypropylene Fiber
I kind of think unboxing videos are strange, but why not, amirite? ChaseKBH helped. Roll of Tyvek :::figure{src="/assets/img/news/tumblr inline mnp1i035Gp1qz4rgp.webp" align="center" width="100"} ::: :::figure{src="/assets/img/news/tumblr inline mnp1ikvbtw1qz4rgp.gif" align="center" width="100"} ::: :::figure{src="/assets/img/news/tumblr inline mnp1k1sz1z1qz4rgp.webp"…
May 18, 2013
Income isn't just about more education, quality matters, too
Reading Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future, he notes (location 6196), The United States cannot continue to live off foreign scientists, many of whom are begining to return to China and India…
May 15, 2013
Teacher Training in Higher Education
I started teaching at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), a distance education institution, in the spring term of 2011. Someone from UMUC had emailed asking if I'd be interesting in…
Feb 21, 2013
Slides from SBCA
Below are my slides from the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis today. Estimating the Net Social Benefits of the National Flood Insurance Program from James Howard
Feb 19, 2013
Howard County and Moody's
Moody's has announced Howard County may lose its coveted and well-deserved AAA bond rating. The AAA rating is important to the County because it reduces the borrowing costs for funding and gives…
Feb 11, 2013
Questions about the Benedict XVI's abdication
So I have some interesting political and social questions, that might be a bit different from anything I've heard so far: 1. Will Benedict XVI be permitted to take part in the…
Dec 31, 2012
Presenting "Estimating the Net Social Benefits of the NFIP" at the Benefit-Cost Society Conference in Februrary
The abstract is below. Conference information is available here. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was created by Congress in 1968 to provide insurance and prevention against flood risk and to shift…
Dec 19, 2012
Mercurial Histories
I put a lot of stuff into Mercurial including research, letters, and miscellaneous documents as they are being developed. When a new project shares some common element (such as, for instance, page…
Nov 9, 2012
Who run Bartertown?
Nate Silver. But lost in the discussion of how the Republican Party panned his predictions is an underlying truth. The same group of people who reject climate science, evolutionary science, economic science,…
Oct 30, 2012
Simply Statistics: On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy
Simply Statistics: On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy simplystatistics: As you know, we have a thing for statistical literacy here at Simply Stats. So of course this…