Urban Humanist

James Surowiecki, in a recent New Yorker, offers a short history of Fannie and Freddie, titled Sponsoring Recklessness: Financial Page: The New Yorker. His title makes the interesting point about the relation between markets and the state. When is private enterprise merely that? And, where does the line for public responsibility for private failure lie. [...]

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I listened intently to a couple of pollsters on local NPR affiliate WCPN’s Science Cafe yestereday, as they discussed election polling. As insightful as it was, it also did not discuss adequately several issues that I find to be much more insightfully highlighted on Five-ThirtyEight.Com. Run by a founder of baseball prospectus, number geek/statistician, Nate [...]

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The New York Times has a great photo and story of Obama in Berlin. I love the analysis of the speech from Der Spiegel. Or, just watch for yourself on YouTube.
Best of all, though, is the photo.

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