Are You at Risk for a Heart Attack? The Answer May Lie in Your Twitter Stream | Mother Jones
25 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: Twitter
These are undercover officers?
25 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, law and economics, personnel economics, politics - USA Tags: Undercover police
Overcoming Bias : Exposing Scientist Liberality
24 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: academic bias, activists, climate alarmism, expressive 13, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
If the public knew the truth, I expect two effects:
- The public would consider scientists to be less authoritative as a neutral source on policy questions, and
- Since scientists are respected, the public would become less conservative and more liberal.
Decay of the Hollywood sign, 1978
24 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
We mark George Orwell’s passing today in 1950 by recalling Knopf’s priceless rejection of Animal Farm
23 Jan 2015 2 Comments
Movie 3-D technology review: Peter Jackson’s Battle of the Five Armies versus the rest
22 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, movies, politics - New Zealand, technological progress Tags: 3-D movies, creative destruction, innovation
We saw Peter Jackson’s latest Hobbit movie the other day. The other films previewed before the Battle of the Five Armies were also 3-D films.
The first of these was a cartoon where the 3-D technology seemed to be based on using crayons to try and trick you as to what was going on.
The next trailer was the next Star Wars movie in 3-D. Again, it was vastly inferior to the 3-D technology of Sir Peter Jackson and his team.
I noticed the same with all the 3-D films of Sir Peter Jackson: they are much better than the competition.
More than a few times in the 3-D films of his competition, you doubt as to whether the film is in 3-D or not and can’t really tell the difference sometimes as to the 3-D effect over normal films in terms of cinematic experience. Example of this was the last Star Trek movie we saw. The 3-D effect failed in a number of occasions.
Clearly there are trade secrets in 3-D films. The 3-D effect works pretty well in Peter Jackson’s films, except for the occasional close-up transition, and sometimes is quite dazzling.
Global computing cost trends
22 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, Digital competition
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