May 2010
5 posts
Word of the day: enthymeme →
It’s like a syllogism with a concealed-weapon permit.
After the Flood (Planet Money) →
Cleaning up unheard Planet Money episodes, I found this follow-up to Chana Joffe-Walt’s blockbuster This American Life segment, in which she went for a ridealong with an FDIC bank closure team. She interviews a couple of the principal players one year later.
Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV — let's get... →
Plucked at random from a list of “TED talks sorted by PageRank engagement”, her take on the statistics of HIV prevention is great on its own terms, and as an example of statistical presentation for a mass audience. Pisani runs a blog along the same lines, Wisdom of Whores.
