stickman's corral

This will be my last post at Stickman's Corral. I recently built a new website and all future blogging activity will be hosted here: g...

As if you care! I'll limit it to three because: a) Parsimony, b) Blogger is being recalcitrant b*tch at the moment and is not letting ...

Given the inadvertent success of my previous post , I've decided to take the philosophical route for this next one: My fifteen minutes ...

There is no cake-stagnation  by Tyler Cowen  Here . Paul Krugman writes about the virtues of black forest cake versus regular vanilla s...

Just clocked up our 30,000th pageview here at The Corral . I feel that this a pretty respectable return for a (very) part-time hobby....

See the back-and-forth  here . Generally, I try to be as civil as possible when it comes to internet debates. (Often is the time that I...

Some exciting news for yours truly is that I'll be writing a series of articles for the excellent energy and climate website, The Energy...

I've been pleasantly surprised by how popular my review of Ivo Vegter's "Extreme Environment" has proven. I initially tho...

Having said goodbye to family and friends after a wonderful holiday in South Africa, and then endured a 20-plus hour trip (two transit stops...

As a postscript to the previous entry, here's a quick story about a newspaper interview that I had last week. It was with one of the maj...

Apologies for the lack of posting recently. Aside from research stuff, most of my "internet" time has been spent working on the R...

A group of us at my university have decided to start a blog dedicated to tackling environmental issues from an economic perspective. Things...

You may have noticed that blogging activity around these parts has taken a marked turn for the worse lately. My life has turned into one sou...

Bob Murphy's whole spin on the Heartland / Peter Gleick affair really bothered me . At first, I just dove straight into the responses wi...

Some of you may have noticed that I've changed the previous post -- on  Invisible Children and James Inhofe -- around a bit since it wa...

Well, a day late... but that can probably only be described as fitting. Of course, recent postings have taken a severe backseat, as you mi...

You may have noticed that blogging's been a bit slow around these parts, lately. Please accept my apologies, but it's a hard thing t...

I've been receiving abuse from various quarters lately for the lack of posting on this site. My apologies, but I'd sworn of any real...

I'm in a world of thesis pain at the moment. My hand-in is just around the corner and I'm frantically making some revisions based on...

That special time of the year has arrived, when I'll be foregoing the pleasures of summer and reaping the rewards of procrastination. Yu...