Signal from Noise

iPhone 18 With 9GB RAM Still Won't Support Two New iOS 27 Features - The lower-end iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will be equipped with 9GB of RAM, up from 8GB in the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17e, according to supply chain analyst Min...

Ancient ‘hobbits’ feasted on Komodo dragons’ leftovers - The hominins may have gone on adventures, but they lacked key skills of modern humans

My Big Picture nowcast and forecast at mid-year 2026 (it may surprise you!) - * - by New Deal democrat* Earlier this week I promised an updated Big Picture forecast and nowcast for the US economy, plus a note about how broad or...

What Does the Declaration Mean by Pursuit of Happiness? - I wrote this short essay about the “pursuit of happiness” for the editorial page of the StarTribune newspaper, where it was published on July 3. _____ Op...

Types of Tornado Alert - [image: I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.]

The Smartphone Hypothesis - Some compelling data suggest smartphones as a significant factor in fertility downturn. What might it spell for the future? Continue reading →

Monday assorted links - 1. The great Scott Wheeler on Stephen Sondheim (Free Press). 2. Is space the most underrated policy area? 3. On the USAID and deaths debate. Hardly the ...

3 quick recipes to boost your energy and focus, from a cookbook for exhausted execs - Eating nutritious food can get relegated to the bottom of your to-do list when you're busy, but this can be counterproductive. Try these tasty recipes, ins...

The Invite - Over the past week, I have been watching some films at the Nantucket Film Festival. The best I saw was *The Invite*, a dramedy about a couple (played by ...

How Well Can You Spot Happy and Unhappy Strangers? - You think you can read a room. A new study says you might catch the happy people but miss those who are suffering.

I Am The Needy Friend! A Psychologist’s Advice - A woman is frustrated and feels like “the needy friend” because of the boundaries set by her friend. The post I Am The Needy Friend! A Psychologist’s Adv...

Music of the day - The finale of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony; Gustavo Dudamel at the 2011 BBC Proms. Do I need to say anything more? If you have an hour and half, go listen to the ...

Why are people so scared of causing fear? - Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. An odd aspect of discussing serious threats is the amount of concern people express about you causing other peop...

Amorim trả giá khi MU để mất ‘báu vật’ từ thời Sir Alex - Trong bức tranh đầy u ám của Manchester United mùa giải 2024/25, HLV Ruben Amorim đang đối mặt với một loạt thách thức để cứu vãn đội bóng. Nhưng giữa nh...

Through the looking glass - I'm living in a world that was unimaginable to me until everything started crashing down. I know what is happening, what the prez and his crony-in-chief ar...

Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science reformers: A peek behind the curtain - One interesting sidelight of the story of a much criticized and finally retracted article on replication in psychology is that we get to read some of the r...

Why Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is a broken moral compass - Originally published at THE HILL.COM on 07/13/2024 When Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a law in June requiring the display of... The post Why Loui...

Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan - John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the *New York Times Magazine* and has written for *Harper's*, *The New Yorker*, and *GQ*. He is the au...

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...

A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...

10 Ways City Dwellers Alleviate Secular Guilt - If a man lives in sin, away from the Church and its sacrament of confession, his soul becomes burdened with the cumulative weight of his transgressions. Si...

Q&A: Pexapark’s Luca Pedretti on Europe’s changing PPA market -

Jobless claims have best pandemic week yet - Jobless claims have best pandemic week yet This week’s new jobless claims decreased close to their pandemic lows, while the unadjusted and 4-week average...

David Tennant Can’t Hold Together Frustrating Deadwater Fell - While we don’t cover a lot of Acorn TV here on *RogerEbert.com*, I’ve always liked what they do, and jumped at the chance to review a new thriller that c...

New Floating Solar Handbook Launched - [Singapore] At the start of the 3rd International Floating Solar Symposium (IFSS) held at the Asia Clean Energy Summit (ACES) this week, the World Bank G...

America Vs Poland: Vulvo Edition - This is interesting, in a Chinese curse sort of way. Swedish car company Vulvo ran two different ads to be shown in America and Poland. lmao. Do the swedec...

Strong and Weak Technologies - During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one instance in which a journalist criticized the iPhone’s touch-...

Relativity – Part 2 - It’s 9 pm on a Friday, I come out of school after 8 hours of finance and 3 hours of marketing. My face is a mask of exhaustion, my injured brain hurts. I s...

The Dilapidated Homeless Shelter At D.C. General Finally Closes Its Doors - [image: The Dilapidated Homeless Shelter At D.C. General Finally Closes Its Doors] D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser fulfilled a promise she made when she first ran...

Flashback: Taylor Swift Makes Her Awards Show Debut in 2007 - Watch Swift perform her debut single "Tim McGraw" at the Academy of Country Music Awards, right before meeting the man himself

Where are the new blogs? - Working to update our blog lists.

The World Cup and Making Soccer Less Boring - It is World Cup time, a good time to reintroduce two posts I did one of the last times we had the World Cup capture the imagination. One of them suggests ...

Hannity Promises To Expose CNN & NBC News In "EpicFail" - *"Tick tock."* In a mysterious tweet yesterday evening to his *3.19 million followers,* Fox News' Sean Hannity offered a preview of what is to come from ...

Adjust contrast of a pdf free - Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are saving. the proce...

China: Choosing More Debt, More Unemployment, Or Transfers - I have often written in this blog and elsewhere about the three policy choices Beijing faces as it tries to manage through the adjustment process. My argum...

Wisconsin in Last Place for Start-up Activity - The Kauffman Foundation has just released its report on startup activity. Wisconsin comes in last place in startup density. Figure 1: Source: Kauffman Foun...

LIFE ON THE LEFT BANK: “A Hero’s Welcome” - [image: Peter Paul Payack, LIFE ON THE LEFT BANK: "A Hero's Welcome"] Visit peterpaulpayack.com for more ‘Life on the Left Bank’ cartoons! …

13 Questions to Joost - I have realized that I have a choice in every moment. Being aware is a choice. I still forget now and than but I have learned that it works in this way. Ho...

Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress: Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis has Moved to MishTalk.Com - It's been a long run, but I am leaving Google Blogger for a new home on WordPress. Please bookmark my new site: http://mishtalk.com/ Why Leave? My needs...

IBM buys Ustream: is it a workforce communication play? - IBM has added Ustream to a long list of video technology company acquisitions in the recent past -- like Clearleap acquired last month -- buying the stream...

Seth Roberts Community on Facebook - A new group on Facebook has been set up to continue discussions on topics that Seth covered: personal science, self-experimentation, scientific method, and...

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To be continued - As promised, I am bringing this blog to a close. If you’re so inclined, feel free to pop over to my new blog. I’ll do my best to keep it entertaining, slig...

Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner

Post Felix - Today is Felix’s last day at Reuters. Counterparties may have been the brainchild of Felix and the recently departed Ryan McCarthy, but the blog, site, new...

Where to Eat: Two Chain Restaurants Worth Trying - Maybe it's because I grew up in a small city. Or maybe it's because my family has been in the restaurant business for as long as I can remember. Either way...

Follow Our Environmental Coverage - Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.

Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read - [image: Instapaper 4 Icon] *Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone* The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 v...

Bostonist Bids Adieu - [image: Bostonist Bids Adieu] There's no clever way to say it: This is the last word from Bostonist. Last week, Gothamist informed me that Bostonist will b...

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