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• What Happened to Tiger

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  Tiger Woods crashed his car, and hasn't told us why.
  
  Here's my completely made up hypothesis for what happened:
  
  After spending a couple of weeks in Australia and China, his sleep schedule is all screwed up. So he was headed out at 2AM to find some lunch.[...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:58pm EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Global warming is NOT killing turtles in Costa rica

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  I was browsing around the web looking into some of the Climategate accusations and responses, and I ran into this chart on the Wikipedia sea level rise page:
  This isn't a Global-Warming-Denier chart: "This image, created with sea surface height data from the Topex/Poseidon'" [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:54pm EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Pledging Allegiance

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  So I read in Catherine Sanderson's blog that it's illegal for Massachusetts schoolteachers not to lead their classes in the Pledge of Allegiance.
  
  It's not WAY illegal-- the punishment is a fine "not more than $5." (makes me wonder: who sets the fine? Could Amherst decide to fine [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:43am EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Is Global Warming Killing Turtles?

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  Image by Paul Mannix
  "Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica" is the title of a recent New York Times article.
  
  Reporters and environmentalists and climate-change-deniers all like to cherry-pick evidence to support their article or point of view. Hotter than average [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:46pm EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Flu vaccine costs and benefits

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  I was surprised to find out that getting a seasonal flu shot isn't the slam-dunk, you're-dumb-if-you-don't-do-it decision that I assumed it was.
  
  I think I was confounding what I know about childhood vaccines (which are a don't-be-an-idiot-and-just-get-them kinda thing) with the flu vaccine. There are good discussions on the [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:45am EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Swap Houses and Profit!

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  Can anybody point me to a respected economist (meaning one who isn't employed by the National Association of Realtors/Homebuilders) who thinks that extending the first-time-homebuyer tax credit is a good idea?
  
  It's a bad idea on so many levels. Its regressive (homeowners are richer than the average taxpayer), its [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:32pm EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Stupid google

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  The Happy Kamper points to a funny Slate article about Google's auto-suggest feature. Turns out if you talk pretty, you get fancy suggestions. And if you don't, you get suggestions about growing weed or Jon and Kate.
  
  The phrase "stupid is as stupid does" immediately sprang to [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:24am EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Education Reform: Lessons from the UK

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  The Center for American Progress (a lefty think tank) organized "an insightful conversation about the community schools strategy and how federal policy can encourage the growth of community schools across the country" a few days ago. You can watch the whole thing on their website (or [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:46pm EST
  by Gavin Andresen