stickman's corral

It occurs to me that I haven't mentioned my Noondaytune contributions in ages. Without further ado and including some snippets from my r...

After spending nearly a year in Land Economics ' publication queue, I'm pleased to say that my joint paper on "Electricity Pric...

I was seven years old, and on the day before I was to begin, my father took me aside and told me that I must be dressed properly for schoo...

Asimbonanga (We have not seen him) Asimbonang' uMandela thina (We have not seen Mandela) Laph'ekhona (In the place where ...

Not really. But I still enjoyed reading the following passage from Andrei Shleifer's review of Daniel Kahneman's (superb)  Thinking...

Some background first: South Africa's power market is utterly dominated by (a) coal and (b) Eskom, the parasitical parastatal monopoly....

A while ago, I wrote a post praising the scientific approach  that advocates of the  paleo diet appeared to be adopting in arguing their ca...

I mentioned the other day that I acted as moderator for the recent  TEDxBergen conference. Videos of the various talks have now been posted...

I used to be an avid reader of Joe Romm's " Climate Progress " blog. However, my enthusiasm has waned dramatically over the ye...

Even if you're only vaguely aware of the climate change debate, then you will probably have heard of the " hockey stick ". You...