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An entertaining upcoming week in Houston
No one in Houston this week can complain about lack of opportunity for intellectual stimulation. First, well-known legal blogger and Clear Thinkers favorite Larry Ribstein will be lecturing on Thursday afternoon from noon to 2 p.m. at the University...
Enduring Gladwell?
Charlie Rose interviews Malcolm Gladwell in the video below in regard to his new book Outliers, but it does not appear that the Financial Times' Clive Cook will be watching: Since the first chapter of “Tipping Point” I have been...
The NFL confronts the Mismatch Problem
The pathological way in which National Football League teams annually evaluate college football players has been a common topic on this blog. So, I thoroughly enjoyed this New Yorker video (H/T Guy Kawasaki) of a recent talk by Clear...
The improving conversation about PED's in baseball
As noted earlier here, the Mitchell Commission Report is a sloppy hatchet job. However, the report has had the beneficial impact of prompting more reasoned voices to emerge regarding the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in professional...
More on the Mitchell Report
Following on my posts earlier this month on the Mitchell Commission Report, I have been meaning to pass along several additional items: Malcolm Gladwell follows his earlier post on the Mitchell Report with another one in which he makes the...
Mitchell Report redux
Following on my post on the Mitchell Report, the following are a few interesting observations from the past several days: Art DeVany agrees with me that MLB didn't get it's money's worth and provides a rather interesting and simple test...
Institutionalized fanaticism
If your friends or co-workers who follow college football closely are acting a bit stressed out today, then it's quite likely that the source of their anxiety is a 17 or 18 year old who they have never met. Yes,...
Reacting to Gladwell's Enron article
It's been a week now since Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article on the injustice of the case against Jeff Skilling. One of the more revealing reactions to the article resulted from a question that Gladwell posed in this blog post...
Malcolm Gladwell on Enron
Malcolm Gladwell, he of Tipping Point fame, has authored this must-read New Yorker article on the demise of Enron. Although Gladwell gets a couple of things wrong, his article provides a refreshingly candid and objective view of what happened to...
Remember the NBA?
Once upon a time seemingly long ago, the Houston Rockets were the most popular professional sports franchise in Houston. However, after nine straight seasons of not winning a playoff series, and while watching its Texas competitors -- the San Antonio...
The power-law theory of homelessness
Malcolm Gladwell, he of Tipping Point fame, has authored this fascinating New Yorker article on homelessness, which includes a particularly interesting discussion of the health care costs for the chronically homeless. One example that Gladwell uses is the story of...
Catching up with the NBA
As noted in earlier posts here and here, I find it difficult to generate much enthusiasm for the local professional basketball team, the Houston Rockets. This year's club is mildly interesting, with one of the best perimeter players in the...
Key questions on American health care
Malcolm Gladwell's recent New Yorker polemic regarding the state of American health care prompts Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen to post this handy list of observations on the key issues facing the American health care system. One point that Tyler makes...
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