Monthly Archives: August 2015

A decade later

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Ten years ago, at roughly this hour, I published a blog post titled “New Orleans in peril.” I was just a law student with a moderately popular blog, and hurricanes were one of the many things that I liked to blog about, so of course I was going to write… Read more »

The crowd gets one wrong

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Last week, inspired by a Planet Money podcast episode in which the “wisdom of crowds” was tested by having 17,205 people guess the weight of a cow based on a photo on the Internet, I decided to tweet out my wife’s picture of her giant Costco shopping cart and ask… Read more »