Glenn Reynolds links to Megan McArdle on the crazy housing market in Washington, DC. We lived through such housing value puffoonery out here in San Diego, ca. 2000 to 2007. Speculation based on what?
It's not just the housing prices, but the irreversible landscaping of the whole region; I noticed this back here: link
Showing posts with label Instapundit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Instapundit. Show all posts
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving and "Heh"!
Instapundit wrote:
I’M PRETTY SURE THE SCOTS-IRISH VERSION OF THIS STORY WOULD END “So then I went in, and the sumbitch at the door will be politer, next time. If he lives.” It would be a lot shorter, too.
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I’M PRETTY SURE THE SCOTS-IRISH VERSION OF THIS STORY WOULD END “So then I went in, and the sumbitch at the door will be politer, next time. If he lives.” It would be a lot shorter, too.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Bremsstrahlung
Glenn Reynolds pulled a different quote from this story on electric cars: link
I liked this one because it reminded me of how fuel taxes act like brakes:
I liked this one because it reminded me of how fuel taxes act like brakes:
If you’ve ever ridden in a Prius, you may have noticed that it creeps forward when you take your foot off the brake.Also, Bremsstrahlung is such a cool word/concept that I wanted to put it out there.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
More Tipping Points And Change
The "tipping point" is a useful construct for understanding how things happen in real life--even in politics--and I tried making this point back here with the help of this graphic:
The notion comes from chemical dynamics which is the study of how chemistry happens at the molecular level. Chemical reactions have hurdles too and that cartoon is an easy way of visualizing energy barriers.
The tipping point is just another name for something important in chemistry called the "transition state." Henry Eyring at Princeton introduced the "activated complex" in 1935 as a specific geometric structure that is highest in energy along the way from reactants to products. Michael Polanyi (Eyring's mentor in Berlin) named it the transition state and that name stuck, but the theory, Transition state theory--remains more closely associated with Eyring.
Transition states are ephemeral, just as tipping points are in everyday life. Who's to say when they occur? Yet they are the sine qua non of chemical reactivity. Tweeking them--to lower them in energy--is the goal of most chemical catalysis: link A recent link put up by Instapundit makes this clear.
The notion comes from chemical dynamics which is the study of how chemistry happens at the molecular level. Chemical reactions have hurdles too and that cartoon is an easy way of visualizing energy barriers.
The tipping point is just another name for something important in chemistry called the "transition state." Henry Eyring at Princeton introduced the "activated complex" in 1935 as a specific geometric structure that is highest in energy along the way from reactants to products. Michael Polanyi (Eyring's mentor in Berlin) named it the transition state and that name stuck, but the theory, Transition state theory--remains more closely associated with Eyring.
Transition states are ephemeral, just as tipping points are in everyday life. Who's to say when they occur? Yet they are the sine qua non of chemical reactivity. Tweeking them--to lower them in energy--is the goal of most chemical catalysis: link A recent link put up by Instapundit makes this clear.
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