Ministry of Education back tracks
tokyokevinOn the backs of babes. It seems since the scores are falling in international tests, and Japanese kids aren't learning stuff you can test as much, there is a panic…
Saving money by treating sewage
adminOver at Freakonomics an interview with Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, about treating human waste, shows that for every dollar spent on sewage treatment, seven dollars in health…
Bowling Alone in a Recession
Reading the news today, a paragraph from David Brooks stands out as a prediction on the social fabric of the US as they (we?) enter into a prolonged recession. Finally,…
Implicit Knowledge
Thanks to the guys over at Freaknomics, specifically Ian Ayers editorial in the Los Angeles Times by the Police Commissioner, I have found a new tool. Ayers did a study…
My daughter, the Obama Fan
About two weeks before the election, my daughter Anri and her English teacher, the best one in the school, started working on a speech contest. Anri was barred from the…