Hans Rosling, the brilliant Swedish statistician and doctor, has been on a tear lately, publishing a lovely series of short videos on Gapminder.org. The videos… Read More »Visualizing swine flu versus tuberculosis
One of the best things about being an academic (or even, like me, a psuedo-academic) is how easy it’s become to collaborate with people you… Read More »Twitter and social graph analysis
Facebook%u2019s E-mail Censorship is Legally Dubious, Experts Say | Epicenter Facebook blocking links to Pirate Bay-hosted torrents in internal messaging system, i.e., email. Interesting questions… Read More »links for 2009-05-07
Monday night, Rachel and I went to our local movie theatre to watch “Slingshot Hip-Hop“, a documentary on Palestinian hiphop by Palestinian/Syrian/American filmmaker Jackie Reem… Read More »Slingshot Hip-hop, and the power of digital Palestine
The New York City suburbs make me nervous and itchy. I grew up in northern Westchester county, far enough north that we lived on a… Read More »For the agrarian insane
RR Exclusive: A Word From Hov | Guest List Jay-Z's a xenophile: "It's stupid cool to like things that are not like you." Via wayneandwax… Read More »links for 2009-05-04