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Andrew is an editor at GOOD and erstwhile philosopher living in Los Angeles.

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On 2009-11-20 andrewprice GOODmarked

Air Travel Is for Polar Bear Killers

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Mapping Noise Pollution with Cell Phones

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  • on November 20, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Cell phones usually contribute to urban noise pollution. But the folks at Paris’s Sony Computer Science Laboratory have created an app that lets any GPS-enabled phone help us understand the problem. Behold NoiseTube:

00:00 / 00:00 00:00

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The Changing Music Business: The Chart

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The Changing Music Business: The Chart

We’ve all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the revenue from sales of recorded music. The light green line below that is the revenue from live music. The dark green line below that, “PRS revenue,” is the revenue from royalties.

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On 2009-11-19 andrewprice GOODmarked

New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education

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Cash for Caulkers

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Cash for Caulkers

It makes sense to weatherize homes. Beefing up insulation and sealing leaks means less energy gets used to heat a house and less of that heat escapes. That translates to lower energy bills and a smaller environmental impact for homes.

But weatherization doesn’t always look good from the consumer’s perspective. Dave Leonhardt tried to get his home weatherized and wrote about the experience in his New York Times column this week:

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On 2009-11-19 andrewprice GOODmarked

Plane Wrecks in the Primeval Landscape

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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service

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  • on November 18, 2009 at 4:41 pm

How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service

Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.

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So What’s the World’s Fastest Supercomputer Up To?

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  • on November 18, 2009 at 2:41 pm

So What’s the World’s Fastest Supercomputer Up To?

It’s solving the world’s most important problems, of course. The Jaguar XT5, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has a speed of 1.759 petaflops. Researchers have already booked time with the machine for 2010. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use the Jaguar to make super specific predictions about climate change, and the University of Tennessee will use it to figure out how to make better ethanol from plant cells. Good news.

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Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama

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  • on November 18, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama

On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let’s not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of Mother Jones to express frustration with Obama’s approach to our common climate problem:

Despite the deadline of the Copenhagen conference, Obama placed energy second on his priority list, guaranteeing that health care would occupy most of the year…. And then—as with health care—he left it pretty much entirely up to Congress to write the necessary…

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On 2009-11-17 andrewprice GOODmarked

Elite University Starts Schooling Prison Inmates

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On 2009-11-20 andrewprice posted
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Mapping Noise Pollution with Cell Phones

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  • on November 20, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Cell phones usually contribute to urban noise pollution. But the folks at Paris’s Sony Computer Science Laboratory have created an app that lets any GPS-enabled phone help us understand the problem. Behold NoiseTube:

00:00 / 00:00 00:00

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The Changing Music Business: The Chart

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  • on November 19, 2009 at 5:44 pm

The Changing Music Business: The Chart

We’ve all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the revenue from sales of recorded music. The light green line below that is the revenue from live music. The dark green line below that, “PRS revenue,” is the revenue from royalties.

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Cash for Caulkers

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Cash for Caulkers

It makes sense to weatherize homes. Beefing up insulation and sealing leaks means less energy gets used to heat a house and less of that heat escapes. That translates to lower energy bills and a smaller environmental impact for homes.

But weatherization doesn’t always look good from the consumer’s perspective. Dave Leonhardt tried to get his home weatherized and wrote about the experience in his New York Times column this week:

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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service

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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service

Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.

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So What’s the World’s Fastest Supercomputer Up To?

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  • on November 18, 2009 at 2:41 pm

So What’s the World’s Fastest Supercomputer Up To?

It’s solving the world’s most important problems, of course. The Jaguar XT5, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has a speed of 1.759 petaflops. Researchers have already booked time with the machine for 2010. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use the Jaguar to make super specific predictions about climate change, and the University of Tennessee will use it to figure out how to make better ethanol from plant cells. Good news.

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Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama

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  • on November 18, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Environmental Writers Disagree About Obama

On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let’s not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of Mother Jones to express frustration with Obama’s approach to our common climate problem:

Despite the deadline of the Copenhagen conference, Obama placed energy second on his priority list, guaranteeing that health care would occupy most of the year…. And then—as with health care—he left it pretty much entirely up to Congress to write the necessary…

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The Dutch Try a Kilometer Tax

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The Dutch Try a Kilometer Tax

The Dutch have done something innovative. They’re replacing the sales and ownership taxes on cars with a tax based on the amount people drive.

“Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill,” the transport ministry said in a statement.

…Dutch motorists driving a standard family saloon will be…

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Samasource: Internet Jobs for the Marginalized

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Samasource: Internet Jobs for the Marginalized

Leila Chirayath Janah, a friend of GOOD, recently launched a nonprofit venture called Samasource. Samasource aims to connect educated workers in disadvantaged communities in India and Africa with Silicon Valley companies that need people to do small, web-based tasks like data entry. Think of it as Kiva for work.

One of her first tests of this concept was in a refugee camp in Kenya. Boing Boing reports:

Shortly after launching Samasource, [Leila] read an Oxfam report that…

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Pictures of the City, Submerged

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Pictures of the City, Submerged

BLDGBLOG is featuring a series of images called Aqualta by Studio Lindfors that depict Tokyo and Manhattan after a catastrophic flood. From BLDGBLOG:

Similar in spirit to Squint Opera’s earlier look at a Flooded London, Aqualta is hard—if not impossible—to separate from the context of melting ice caps and global climate change. However, it deserves visual attention in its own right, even outside such politically charged discussions.

Far from stoking fear about a coming catastrophe, both of these projects—Studio Lindfors and…

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Another Health Care Money Saver: Empathy

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Another Health Care Money Saver: Empathy

While everyone’s focused on preventative care and electronic records as ways of reducing health care costs, David Rakel, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, found evidence that empathy has concrete benefits (surprise!). From the BPS Research Digest:

David Rakel and colleagues have found that patients who rate their doctor as highly empathic recover more quickly from a cold. Their illness is shortened by about a day—the same effect shown…

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On November 17, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Bart Stupak’s Abortion Contortion

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Hey cburst, I would agree with you that fungibility is a truly slippery slope, but I don’t think there aren’t handholds along the way. The case of abortions paid for by government-supplemented health care and the case of junk food bought with food stamps are both cases of the fungibility of the medium of money. I think you can reasonably limit your discussion to the fungibility of money without getting into a meaningless discussion about the cuasal interrelatedness of everything in your light cone.

On November 13, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Is Saying Sorry Better than Prison?

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p.s. If you want to get line breaks in your comment, I’ve found it helps to hit “delete” before you start typing.

On November 13, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Is Saying Sorry Better than Prison?

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Well David, I think we’ve reached an understanding, if not total agreement.

I would agree with you that having a direct comparison between overall recidivism pre-YC and post-YC would give us a better picture of whether it works. But I don’t think that means we have to remain agnostic about the likely overall effect on recidivism. If you look at the distribution of offenses of kids entering the program, it runs the gamut. But the difference in reoffending between YC participants and custodial punishments is big: 38% vs. 71%. Given that stark difference, the fact that offenders with all types of crimes were referred to the YC program, and the fact that 38% is low by global standars, I’m comfortable calling myself impressed.

That said, I’m not saying that’s an airtight case. Kids in the YC program had to agree to participate. That may introduce a certain “cherry-picking” effect. But at the end of the day, to get a true recidivism rate, you’d need to follow every participant through to their dying day to see if they ever reoffend, right? And we’re not going to wait for that. We shouldn’t hold out for incontrovertably conclusive data before moving on some apparent improvements.

Perhaps I should have said “encouraging” instead of “remarkable”
(though, literally speaking, you and I have both spent some time remarking about them so far, so they are that).

At the end of the day, though, this conversation itself has been a net good and improved the orignal post, so thanks for that and cheers!

On November 12, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Is Saying Sorry Better than Prison?

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Hey David, I appreciate the skepticism and I think you raise fair points. A few responses:

1) Page 15 of the report gives the distribution of offenses that kids who enter the youth conference system are charged with. They don’t compare it to the distribution of total offenses but they describe it as “a wide range” in terms of seriousness and, just looking at the chart, it strikes me as pretty similar to what the total distribution probably looks like. If that’s the case, the program would reduce recidivism overall.

2) This is a working program, not a scientific study. Even if you compared the total recidivism rates in earlier years to the recidivism rate during the course of the YC trial, that still wouldn’t be proof the program reduces reoffending, strictly speaking. A sufficiently motivated skeptic could find any number of factors that weren’t held constant across the two time periods (did the economic climate change? did the schools change?). Holding out for airtight scientific proof might be a very, very long wait.

3) You acknowledge this yourself but it’s important: There are a number of reasons, aside from recidivism rate, that this program is likely to be better. The report indicates it’s less expensive than prison, and victims report preferring it. There are also any number of other positive “externalities.” It may contribute to a less vindictive atmosphere in society overall and almost certainly reduces some of the human suffering associated with prison terms for the victims (and that suffering is a cost of criminal justice). Of course these latter reasons involve emotions and attitudes, and that makes them hard to quantify (see point 2).

4) Given the fact that people like this program, and that it is, I would argue, more compassionate, and that, at the very least, it can’t be proven that it’s making things worse: isn’t it a step forward?

Looking forward to your thoughts!

On November 12, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Name That Game

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Just stumbled across this archive post. It’s is the funniest thing I’ve seen in months.

“Nuts and Milk”???

“Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe’s Brother”???

You’re not even exacting revenge for Joe? Just his anonymous brother? How can I get excited about that?

Too funny.

On November 11, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Futuristic Stealth Boat Will Fight Whale Hunters

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In the year 2000, that second ‘u’ will be superfluos.

On November 11, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Veterans Stump for Clean Energy

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So, switching topics: Ben, what’s the deal with Brazil and their new voluntary carbon reduction offer? Is this a bluff to make everyone else look bad and to get the U.S. to put something serious on the table? Or is it a real sacrifice they’re prepared to make?

On November 11, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

Which State Has the Worst School System?

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Hey, yeah, the line breaks are on the list of things our tech team is working on. Soon, hopefully. Bear with us til then!

On November 9, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

No One Likes the Homebuyer Tax Credit

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Ok, so one element of the argument against the tax credit is that it doesn’t do much to get people to buy homes. Glaeser claims the tax credit doesn’t make the difference for 4 out of 5 first-time homebuyers. But we have lots of anecdotal evidence from the comments that it does. I’m sure it does make the difference for some people. What percentage, exactly, is another question.

But the second element of the argument is that we just shouldn’t be incentivizing the buying lots of single-family homes. And that’s a principal difference with Cash for Clunkers. Buying more fuel-efficient cars is good; buying more energy-inefficient, single-family homes may not be.

But while we’re at it, I think it’s very hard to guage the net effect of the Cash for Clunkers program. So I’ll reserve judgment on that myself for now.

Thanks for all the productive comments. I’m enjoying the convo.

On November 8, 2009 andrewprice Discussed

No One Likes the Homebuyer Tax Credit

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Thanks for catching that, Geektronica. I added the IRS.gov page on the Homebuyer Tax Credit instead.

Steven Pearlstein says that “Even its most prominent supporters acknowledge that of the first-timers who have already claimed the credit, only one in five wouldn’t have bought a home without it.” The people who think the program is a waste wouldn’t deny that, for some people (like nicksergeant), the $8,000 tax credit is what seals the deal. But they say those people are outnumbered by people (like Ezra Klein) who would have bought a home whether or not there was the tax credit.

I don’t have good numbers to back up the Pearlstein quote above, but that’s the argument at least.

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On 2009-11-20 andrewprice GOODmarked

Air Travel Is for Polar Bear Killers

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New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education

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Plane Wrecks in the Primeval Landscape

On 2009-11-17 andrewprice GOODmarked

Elite University Starts Schooling Prison Inmates

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Bart Stupak’s Abortion Contortion

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Singularity 101: What Is the Singularity?

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The Public Option Fight Isn’t Optional

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Change ads with the DoGooder plugin – Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns

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Picture Show: Four Days in Dubai

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