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Jul 19, 2016
Black Lives Matter Reading List
Apr 13, 2015
A Marxian reading of Technology
Apr 4, 2015
Economics after the Crash - A Discipline in Need of Renewal?
Mar 31, 2015
The Problem of Value - Economics as a Moral Science
Mar 17, 2015
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Mar 15, 2015
Knausgaard on immigration
Feb 23, 2015
On Kanye West and black ambition
Feb 23, 2015
ISIS follow up - Islamist power in civil war
Feb 19, 2015
Response to "What ISIS really wants"
Jan 27, 2015
Some thoughts on newsroom analytics
Jul 29, 2014
A few words about my experience at MAPSS, UChicago
Jul 23, 2014
An unsolicited thought about Soylent
Jun 9, 2014
Why I meditate and participate in endurance sports
Nov 3, 2013
Douglas Hofstadter's unrelenting quest to replicate the human mind
Oct 23, 2013
Etsy Ignite: The Importance of Interdisciplinary Thinking
Oct 14, 2013
PETER NORVIG RESPONDS TO CHOMSKY
Oct 7, 2013
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
May 31, 2013
UChicago MAPSS alumni talk
Jan 27, 2013
H.L. Mencken and Pixar's RATATOUILLE on criticism
Jan 14, 2013
Scientists — ev...
Dec 14, 2012
Junot Diaz - as impactful when he speaks as when he writes
Nov 24, 2012
Causality in Political Networks
Oct 26, 2012
Drew Conway on the intersection of Data-Science and Social-Science
Oct 12, 2011
David Foster Wallace on Kafka's Humor
Oct 11, 2011
Bayesian methods in applied econometrics
Sep 2, 2011
Blogging as a bridge between academia and public sphere
Sep 1, 2011
Ed Glaeser on the nascent social sciences
Aug 31, 2011
Commanding Heights - PBS Documentary
Aug 31, 2011
A literature review of the impact of the Internet on the brain
Aug 28, 2011
Disaggregating social media and civic governance theories
Aug 24, 2011
Sex, lies and overblown statistics
Aug 19, 2011
Experimental design in the Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2011
Gary King on future data-richness in the social sciences
Aug 13, 2011
Podcast: Darren Acemoglu on inequality and the financial crisis
Aug 10, 2011
Better analysts, better data, better theory? All of the above
Aug 8, 2011
Bayesian statistics in the NYT
Aug 8, 2011
Getting started with data visualization
Jul 21, 2011
My 11 favorite ESPN 30 for 30s
Jul 20, 2011
Mac OSX Lion review
Jul 15, 2011
On metaphors
Jul 4, 2011
William Faulkner on winning the Nobel Prize
Jul 1, 2011
Last Train Home (2009)
Jul 1, 2011
Education and economic output
Jun 29, 2011
Taking down Michael Lewis
Jun 22, 2011
Jose Antonio Vargas in NYT - My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant
Jun 15, 2011
Still Bill (2009)
Jun 14, 2011
Eric Whitacre interviewed by Intelligent Life
Jun 9, 2011
Fareed Zakaria on Planet Money at NPR
Jun 8, 2011
The Epidemic of Mental Illness
May 25, 2011
Louis CK on why he loves Bill Clinton
May 17, 2011
Cornel West vs. POTUS
May 16, 2011
Incendies (2010)
May 12, 2011
Highly-skilled immigrants as low hanging fruit
May 11, 2011
The reality of reality television
May 11, 2011
Junot Diaz on becoming a writer
May 10, 2011
Paper Tigers in NY Mag
May 10, 2011
Bringing causal models into the mainstream
May 9, 2011
Kristof on the the war on contraception
May 9, 2011
Hillary Clinton Profile in Vanity Fair
Feb 24, 2011
David Foster Wallace on political writing
Jan 10, 2011
Paul Krugman's "How I work"
Dec 13, 2010
Black Swan (2010)
Nov 23, 2010
The Conversation (1974)
Nov 15, 2010
Mario Cuomo's 1984 DNC Keynote Address
Nov 9, 2010
Are political orientations genetically transmitted?
Oct 26, 2010
Hackneyed "Clash of Civilizations"
Oct 13, 2010
Mortality Salience and Ideology
Oct 5, 2010
Foucault vs. Chomsky
Oct 4, 2010
Social Network (2010) and Catfish (2010)
Sep 30, 2010
Unipolarity and Multipolarity in the International System
Sep 29, 2010
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Sep 25, 2010
The work of a face, hands and feet on the mind
Sep 22, 2010
Higher literacy thanks to Bollywood
Sep 22, 2010
Math Camp
Sep 21, 2010
On hyper-links
Sep 18, 2010
Pessimism (but not what you're thinking)
Sep 17, 2010
New Yorker's 20 writers under 40
Aug 4, 2010
August 4, 2010 the3six5
Jul 18, 2010
Why I loved Inception (spoilers within)
Jun 5, 2010
On Transitions
May 22, 2010
To New Beginnings
May 3, 2010
Some thoughts on endings
Apr 20, 2010
My Love for Culinary Tourism
Apr 12, 2010
The possibility of Arab Occidentalism
Mar 29, 2010
A Response to “Online Status Anxiety”
Mar 26, 2010
Small Campus Experience
Mar 19, 2010
Middle Eastern Millennials Survey
Mar 16, 2010
5 Days in Lebanon
Mar 1, 2010
Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and the UAE
Feb 19, 2010
What do Tehran and “Precious” have in common?
Feb 12, 2010
Business Law in the UAE
Feb 10, 2010
Preliminary Thoughts on Google Buzz and The Diffusion of Innovations Model
Feb 4, 2010
On Living in the Hyphen, and New Perspectives
Jan 26, 2010
On Multiculturalism and Hospitality in Dubai
Jan 22, 2010
After a Couple of Weeks
Jan 15, 2010
A few thoughts on Haiti
Jan 11, 2010
First Impressions of Dubai
Jan 7, 2010
First day in Dubai
Jan 6, 2010
On Travel
Jan 2, 2010
Study Abroad in Dubai, UAE
Apr 15, 2009
Why I love Jazz.
Apr 7, 2009
15th Anniversary of Rwandan Genocide
Mar 29, 2009
Israel's New Administration
Mar 25, 2009
Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
Mar 17, 2009
iPhone 3.0 Software Updates
Mar 12, 2009
Iraqi Provoncial Elections - Juan Cole talk
Mar 6, 2009
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Samarth Bhaskar

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