Author: Glen

Wow. The wages of sin is death…

Man Gets Ebo­la … From Phone He Stole

A Ugan­dan thief got a seri­ous les­son in why you should­n’t steal, par­tic­u­lar­ly from peo­ple with dead­ly dis­eases. After break­ing into a hos­pi­tal iso­la­tion ward ear­li­er this month and steal­ing a cell… …

I find the idea that stu­dents start per­form­ing bet­ter as soon as they find out the results of the lot­tery fas­ci­nat­ing. So much of life is about per­spec­tive and expec­ta­tions.

Freako­nom­ics » Evi­dence on School Choice

We then exam­ine the impact attend­ing a cho­sen school has on stu­dent test score out­comes. We find sub­stan­tial test score gains from attend­ing a char­ter school and some evi­dence that choos­ing and attend…

I have a lot of friends from Sin­ga­pore and so I’ve heard a lot of Sin­ga­pore­an sto­ries, but this one is over-the-top even for Sin­ga­pore. Wow.

The cul­ture that is Sin­ga­pore

A Sin­ga­pore prop­er­ty devel­op­er is tar­get­ing the super rich with park­ing prob­lems by mar­ket­ing lux­u­ry apart­ments that allow own­ers to keep their cars next to their liv­ing rooms, even if they are on the…

I’ve long been a Chi­na skep­tic because of things such as the ghost cities, but I must con­fess I nev­er real­ly con­sid­ered the oppor­tu­ni­ty costs of their actions the way he high­lights them here.

From the excel­lent Yichuan (Lulu) Wang

You all should be fol­low­ing him, or so it would seem to me. Here are excerpts from his post What Chi­na Could Be Build­ing: The real risk is not that the hous­ing won’t be used, but that the crash would…

This is one thing I miss about read­ing books on a Kin­dle — I have less flex­i­bil­i­ty in how I mark them up. On the plus side, it’s eas­i­er to snag a ver­ba­tim quote.

Anno­tat­ing Texts: Some Sug­ges­tions (with Pic­tures!)

A friend of mine who is also a doc­tor­al stu­dent recent­ly asked if I had any sort of sys­tem for how I anno­tate books, par­tic­u­lar­ly pri­ma­ry texts. It was an inter­est­ing ques­tion, because anno­tat­ing book…

Pan­el two rais­es a point I had not con­sid­ered before. Very amus­ing.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Debunk a Fright­en­ing Myth

I wrote this one in the days lead­ing up to Com­ic-Con. I don’t think I need to explain beyond th…

I love com­ic strips. “That shirt’s got more holes than a Goth chick­’s nose.” I might actu­al­ly use that line some­day.

Get Fuzzy by Dar­by Con­ley, August 26, 2012 Via @GoComics

House­cats are known to be aloof, but cat-titude reach­es new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bit­ing­ly hilar­i­ous com­ic strip from car­toon­ist Dar­by Con­ley. Avail­able dai­ly and Sun­day and appear­ing in 650 newsp…

I would say that with the excep­tion of rule #4, this 100% applies to church sound guys. But most of them are sin­gle and are fans of rule #4 as well. 🙂

Sound booth guest rules. — Imgur

Imgur is used to share pho­tos with social net­works and online com­mu­ni­ties, and has the fun­ni­est pic­tures from all over the Inter­net.

This is kin­da cool. So there are twen­ty moments in a minute?

Do we expe­ri­ence life in 3 sec­ond chunks? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Ever won­dered how long a hug lasts? The quick answer is about 3 sec­onds, accord­ing to a new study of the post-com­pe­ti­tion embraces of Olympic ath­letes. But the long answer is more pro­found. A hug last…