Only some of the news that's fit to post, and none that isn't! http://www.emilymoxley.com/news mailto:thewomanherself@emilymoxley.com http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/opinion/30farley.html Mathematical modeling of bee colony collapse http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11580690 The economist claims that our tendency to accumulate clutter (and be a packrat) is biological http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/opinion/27aamodt.html Article on how we remember things and how non-truths can persist, with focus on how to use knowledge for effective campaigning http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/in-flight-internet-hold-the-phone/ Internet on planes arriving soon, but no phones because nobody likes a seat partner on the phone http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/06/24/symbolismville-u-s-a.aspx Andrew Romano explores some goofy US town names http://www.slate.com/id/2193837/?from=rss Pop CS news about a search engine powered by parsing the language of webpages http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/207078/computer-scientists-scour-your-holiday-photos.html Pop CS news related to my research in Flickr geotagging http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11dowd.html Maureen Dowd on what Michelle Obama's in for in the presidential race http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/health/10well.html What we can learn from comparing heterosexual and homosexual relationships http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/us/politics/05race.html Some great quotes about the impact of Obama's candidacy http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/woman-in-charge-women-who-charge A look at Sex and the City and Hillary Clinton http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html Emily Gould's reflections on her career at Gawker and as a blogger, and the overexposure of blogging. Friedman on the issues America will face in the next administration: fiscal, geopolitical, and trade deficits. Particularly critical of Bush on energy. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/opinion/21friedman.html "What do video artists make of YouTube? .... The place is a mess. Maybe artists should avoid it altogether." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?ref=magazine Krugman cautions that the next economic disaster could be much worse, as we pull out of this one... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/opinion/05krugman.html Discussion of China's nationalist rage, and how it should be feared internally, not just externally http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11293645 James Fallows on the Beijing exhibition on Tibet... Chinese propaganda at its best. http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/beijing_mustsee_tibet_past_and.php I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad when a crude version of my research makes the news just because it's Google. News is where the money is, I suppose. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/technology/28google.html The Economist describes, in a nutshell, what I do http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11079611 LIBOR may be artificially good, making many derived loan rates similarly artificially *good* http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120831164167818299.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news McCain's economic platform has something for everybody http://thecurrent.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/mccainomics.php Focus on California home prices and that for many homeowners it may just not make sense to make good on their mortgage http://www.slate.com/id/2188982/ Problems in Chinese business - international branding/recognition http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/business/worldbusiness/12nocera.html?ref=business Reaction of the Chinese youth to the Tibet uprisings; things aren't changing anytime soon... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/opinion/13forney.html Story about how UPS saved $$$$, gas, reduced emissions, etc by minimizing left-hand turns http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09left-handturn.html?ref=bldgblog Krugman on how each of the presidential candidates would regulate loans http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/opinion/28krugman.html Big business and the Supreme Court http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16supreme-t.html Economist article on decoupling of economies in an era of globalisation http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10809267 NYT Op/Ed piece of the way the federal government hampers the local food movement http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/opinion/01hedin.html Arguments over single-sex education http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html Economist article on the current divide between debt markets and stock markets http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10766926 On behavioral economics Professor Ariely's new book Predictably Irrational, and averse reactions to closing doors despite the cost http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/26tier.html Krugman on our obligation to fight poverty in the U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html An explanation of rising/falling marriage/divorce rates through an economic lens http://www.slate.com/id/2182089/ UC Berkeley Policy professor on solution to economic woes: give money to those with lower income, since they'll actually spend it http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/opinion/13reich.html David Brooks on the Chinese talent-ocracy http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04brooks.html NYTimes on new Science articles indicating that biofuels aren't the solution http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/science/earth/08wbiofuels.html David Brooks on the education divide between Obama and Clinton supporters http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/opinion/08brooks.html A look at Chinese investment in U.S. companies and it's implications http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fallows-chinese-dollars