Discussions of things i find interesting. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Theories about the new season of Mad Men, based on its poster. New seasons have never been advertised with fresh footage. Commercials and teasers for individual episodes are usually oblique, offering context-free snippets of dialogue and unrevealing shots of characters. The posters that precede a new season, however, do have some allegorical relationship to what happens over the season.

Hubble Deep Field - revealing the universe. In December 1995 the Hubble Space Telescope took a long exposure image of the sky, where only a very few stars had been noticed before, and practically was an unknown side of the sky. However, astronomers and astrophysicists had always been concerned if anything existed there.

Recent microeconomic research that even non-economists might enjoy. Friday, September 10, 2010. When gas prices are higher, people tend to be less fat. The paper attributes this relationship between gas prices and weight to the effect that changes in gas prices have on the frequency of walking and restaurant eating.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Quite a good idea for a blog. Some of these are great, and the story behind them is quite interesting too. Saturday, August 28, 2010. Friday, August 13, 2010. The Bad Father - Take On Me. Thursday, August 12, 2010. Friday, July 23, 2010.

I may even bring back some of the Radio Glen 1602 amusement and some new items of such Monumental Tat, now that I have the space for it.