The Mentaculus

1) In case you find yourself in an acute panic looking for a last-minute alternative for GR, I am now using Feedly as my RSS reader. I haven't used it enough to recommend it one way or another, but import at least is easy.
2) In an effort to consolidate various interests, I am now blogging exclusively here. If you're interested in keeping up with me, please follow that link and/or paste it (http://andrewtmckenzie.com/news/) into your RSS reader of choice. Even if...

Matthew McIntosh tweeted this and alerted me to the blog of a young woman who I never met, Courtney Arthur. She recently died in a bike accident. The whole poem Matthew was referencing is nice: 
whatever magic is,
it's measurable.  

Yavchitz et al. looked at which factors correlated with the presence of "spin" in the reporting of medical randomized control trials. Spin is emphasizing the benefits of a treatment more than is appropriate on the basis of the data. They cooked...

In Ben Casnocha's reflections on writing his book The Start-Up Of You, he mentions this tidbit:
When you embark on a project that’s going to take awhile, you have to decide how much to publicize the fact – on your blog, to your friends — that you’ve started. ... When you publicly announce that you’re starting toward...