Apr 6, 2015
Negative Interest Rates? Ja bitte!
I don't often talk macro, but when I do, it's on the Internet. A friend asked me, Why would someone invest in a negative yielding bond over simply stashing the same money…
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Apr 2, 2015
Management Controls and the Pump
I recently heard a story instructive for public affairs education. The storyteller told me about his first job working in the data processing department of a mid-sized city in the southern United…
Mar 31, 2015
Introducing Green Beelievers
I haven't posted about our nonprofit project in a while, so here's an update. We got through Spring Break, but just before, the class decided to call the nonprofit "Green Beelievers," where…
Mar 23, 2015
Chip and Signature, What a Waste
Across the United States, new credit card readers are popping up in stores and restaurants. These readers include an embedded chip reader and a keypad. And you're probably getting new credit cards…
Mar 19, 2015
Comments on Renaming Internet Explorer
Microsoft is renaming Internet Explorer. From the article: Microsoft has tried, unsuccessfully, to shake off the negative image of Internet Explorer over the past several years with a series of amusing campaigns…
Mar 14, 2015
Introducing My Bumblebees
During the 1980s, some researchers abandoned top-down artificial intelligence in favor of a bottom-up approach. One of these bottom up approaches became the field of artificial life. In 1992 or 1993, I…
Mar 10, 2015
Casual Transhumanism
Chase, Ducky, and I went to NASA Goddard Visitor Center to launch rockets last weekend. We like to launch Estes Rockets and I designed my first rocket from parts that flew last…
Mar 5, 2015
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity
Sweet Briar College has announced it is closing after more than 100 years of operation. This isn't a big deal and colleges have closed before. Predictably, the higher education industry is panicky…
Mar 3, 2015
An Individual Mandate for Flood Insurance
Alexander Lemann writing in the Fordham Environmental Law Review proposes an individual mandate for flood insurance. The proposed mechanics largely mirror the mechanics of the federal mandate for health insurance. Near the…
Mar 2, 2015
The Nonprofit Project Takes Off
The class has progressed in its project. The class had more-or-less coalesced around the idea of adopting a park near campus and providing for it to be watered and the trash picked…
Feb 23, 2015
Teaching for UMUC
:::figure{src="/assets/img/news/UMUC logox300.webp" alt="The University of Maryland University College announced today they are promoting me to adjunct assistant professor." align="center" width="100"} The University of Maryland University College announced today they are promoting me…