2012

• June 11^th Comments Off
• January 4^th Now Blogging Over at Wired Science! Leave a comment

2011

• December 5^th The Greatest Intersection 3 comments
• November 23^rd Bill Miller’s Mutual Fund Streak 2 comments
• November 15^th Mechanical Turk, Dynamic Networks, and Cooperation Leave a comment
• October 31^st America’s Age, Empires, and Mathematics 1 comment
• October 17^th Mesofact: World Population will hit 7 Billion this Month 3 comments
• October 4^th The Nanny and Aural Sexual Selection Leave a comment
• September 7^th A Drunken Moose and the Problem with Homonyms Leave a comment
• September 1^st Norman Mailer’s Lego City of the Future 2 comments
• August 21^st Personalized Subways Leave a comment
• August 7^th Traces of Humanity Leave a comment
• August 2^nd The Life-Spans of Empires 4 comments
• August 1^st In Praise of Mediocre Research Leave a comment
• July 25^th Why Studying Eggs Over Time Can Explain the Earth Leave a comment
• July 21^st Sidewalk Astronomy Leave a comment
• July 18^th Science, Technology, and Google News Leave a comment
• July 11^th Baseball Teams and Jet Lag Leave a comment
• July 8^th Announcement: Position at the Kauffman Foundation 1 comment
• June 30^th Eurekometrics: Analyzing the Nature of Discovery 2 comments
• June 28^th Bad Math about Infertility in the WSJ 3 comments
• June 27^th A Town Named Migrate, KY Leave a comment
• June 22^nd Gutenberg’s Legacy: Hypotrochoids and Wound Man Leave a comment
• June 15^th Why We Need a TV Show About Academia Leave a comment
• June 7^th Bertrand Russell and Michael Bloomberg 1 comment
• June 1^st Gaussian Genealogy: Math Masters Trace Their Intellectual Lineage Leave a comment
• May 30^th On the Social Fabric of Fiction, and Superheroes Leave a comment
• May 25^th Connecticut’s Panhandle and New York’s Oblong Leave a comment
• May 19^th Cultural Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny 5 comments
• May 11^th The International Dateline in Jewish Law 1 comment
• April 13^th The Belly Button Science Collection 2 comments
• April 11^th Why Apollo 12 Was Amazing 9 comments
• April 5^th Geographic Constraints on Social Network Groups Leave a comment
• April 4^th The First Issue of Nature Leave a comment
• April 4^th Unit of Measure: 1 warp = 4 herrings Leave a comment
• March 28^th Rebirth Island and the Sensitivity of Location Leave a comment
• March 24^th Clustering Map of Biomedical Articles Leave a comment
• March 22^nd Evidence for Fictional Nineteenth Century Science Journalism Leave a comment
• March 17^th Cities of Excellent Research Leave a comment
• March 15^th Cultural Evolution and Diffusion in Basketball 1 comment
• March 14^th Timeline of the World’s Largest City 2 comments
• March 13^th Now on Twitter! Leave a comment
• March 9^th Selling Time in the Nineteenth Century Leave a comment
• March 8^th Economic Growth of Egypt versus China, over 2,000 Years Leave a comment
• March 4^th Jared Diamond in the WSJ Sports Section? 1 comment
• February 26^th Fake University Takes Application Fees Leave a comment
• February 26^th The Streamlined United States Leave a comment
• February 21^st Streaks, from Joltin’ Joe to Mutual Fund Managers Leave a comment
• February 10^th An In-Flight Game for Window Seats Leave a comment
• February 7^th Neal Stephenson’s Characters in the Real World Leave a comment
• February 2^nd The City-States of America 19 comments
• January 31^st What is ‘Internet’ Anyway? Leave a comment
• January 26^th Names of In-Flight Magazines That Are Other Airlines Leave a comment
• January 25^th The Curious Case of the Founding of Rice University Leave a comment
• January 20^th Elevator Use, Public Shame, and the Public Good 62 comments
• January 16^th Edge Question about Shorthand Abstractions: The Copernican Principle Leave a comment
• January 12^th Biography of Carmen Sandiego Leave a comment
• January 2^nd 2011: The Year You Weren’t Expecting 8 comments

2010

• December 27^th Lego Map of Nearby Stars Leave a comment
• December 22^nd Predictions for 2011 in New Scientist: P vs. NP, elements, and more 1 comment
• December 19^th The Metonic Cycle 2 comments
• December 16^th The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 Leave a comment
• December 14^th Porcupines in Diapers and Egg-Shaped Orbs Leave a comment
• December 12^th Work Habits of Highly Cited Scientists 4 comments
• December 10^th Birthdays and Google Searches 1 comment
• December 9^th Where to Locate Your Super-Lair Leave a comment
• December 7^th Steve Johnson, Twitter, and Job Leave a comment
• December 6^th The Sounds of Christmas and Chanukah Songs 1 comment
• December 3^rd The Slippery New Year Leave a comment
• November 28^th Collective Nouns for Facts 4 comments
• November 23^rd Some Scientific Mesofacts Leave a comment
• November 20^th Chaim Weizmann’s Passport 9 comments
• November 16^th Mutated Manuscripts: The Evolution of Genes and Texts Leave a comment
• November 14^th Exciting News: A Book Deal! Leave a comment
• November 11^th Emotional Tradeoffs of Daylight Saving Time 1 comment
• November 8^th Humor in Scientific Publications 16 comments
• November 7^th No Wizard Left Behind: The Failure of The Hogwarts Educational System 49 comments
• October 28^th The Amount of Laughter on NFL Pre-Game Shows Leave a comment
• October 25^th Back from Brainiac Leave a comment
• October 11^th Me on Brainiac: The Boston Globe Ideas Blog 2 comments
• October 5^th Mesofacts and the Census of Marine Life Leave a comment
• October 5^th Global Cities 2010 Leave a comment
• October 4^th Kim Il-sung’s Neck Leave a comment
• October 3^rd China Mobile and Jackie Chan Leave a comment
• September 29^th Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered! 16 comments
• September 28^th Is Peter Parker Immoral if He’s Not Spider-Man? Leave a comment
• September 28^th Carlos D. Bustamante Wins MacArthur Award Leave a comment
• September 27^th Why Bother Predicting Future Discoveries? Leave a comment
• September 22^nd Blog to Check Out: It’s Full of Stars Leave a comment
• September 18^th The Me-Sized Universe Leave a comment
• September 16^th Drinking while Delivering the Parliamentary Budget Leave a comment
• September 13^th When Will the First Earth-like Planet Be Discovered? 19 comments
• September 7^th A Probe’s Descent to Titan and Earth Leave a comment
• September 2^nd Moore’s Law in Robotics Leave a comment
• September 1^st Depressing Quote in the WSJ Leave a comment
• August 26^th Pac-Man Dossier and Trapping Ghosts Leave a comment
• August 24^th Differentiating Skill and Luck in Financial Markets with Streaks 1 comment
• August 23^rd Luck and Genetics 1 comment
• August 20^th Remember AltaVista? Leave a comment
• August 19^th Unexpected Parenthetical Statement in WSJ 2 comments
• August 19^th The Internet for Dummies, First Edition Leave a comment
• August 18^th WSJ: ‘Meet the NFL’s Most Interesting Man’ 1 comment
• August 16^th ‘The Independent’ on Scientometrics Leave a comment
• August 13^th Differentiation in Lego Sets 1 comment
• August 12^th Drew Barrymore Writes Paper about Matrilineal Descent in Africa Leave a comment
• August 11^th Goodnight Luna Leave a comment
• August 10^th Appropriate Media Choices Leave a comment
• August 9^th Interview with the Director of the Vatican Observatory Leave a comment
• July 27^th The Wishing Well: A Fairy Tale for Scientists Leave a comment
• July 23^rd Button-Clicking and the Marshmallow Test 12 comments
• July 21^st The Progression of Metric Prefixes Over Time Leave a comment
• July 18^th Hard to Find: Discovery and the Science of Science 2 comments
• July 11^th Best Description of a Newspaper Source 2 comments
• July 2^nd Connecting the Dots: Harvard Symposium on Network Visualization Leave a comment
• June 30^th Voyager and the Limits of Exploration 3 comments
• June 29^th ‘Enough with Janes Jacobs Already’ in WSJ 1 comment
• June 24^th Milky Way Transit Authority Updates Leave a comment
• June 22^nd The Game of Life’s First Replicating Creature Leave a comment
• June 10^th My Grad School Advisor’s Textbook in ‘Spider-Man 2′ Leave a comment
• May 3^rd Twin Research at Harvard Leave a comment
• April 29^th Are turkeys known for standing on one leg? 9 comments
• April 28^th Using Networks to Understand How Language is Processed Leave a comment
• April 25^th Colors in Cultures Leave a comment
• April 20^th Kevin Kelly and the Long Tail of Life Leave a comment
• April 19^th Iceland Volcano and ‘Recent’ History Leave a comment
• April 11^th Halloween Prescience Leave a comment
• April 8^th Is ‘mesofact’ becoming a word? 4 comments
• February 28^th Mesofacts: slowly changing information 7 comments
• February 12^th Superbowl Coke Ad is eerily similar to an Israeli Milk Ad 1 comment
• January 15^th Crayola Colors over Time Leave a comment
• January 4^th Paper Shredder Endorsements I Would Like To See Leave a comment

2009

• December 15^th Presidents Who Did Not Run For Re-election Leave a comment
• December 2^nd Infographic: Area per Referee for Various Sports Leave a comment
• November 15^th Fantasy Geopolitics Leave a comment
• November 11^th Analysis and Visualization of ‘Choose-Your-Own-Adventure’ 1 comment
• November 6^th A Place in Bangladesh called Matlab Leave a comment
• October 23^rd The Approach Towards Universal Publishing 1 comment
• October 7^th Capsule Overviews of Humanity and Earth Leave a comment
• September 28^th An Asteroid Named Plimpton Leave a comment
• September 18^th Average Cost of a Child 1 comment
• September 6^th Applied Math at the Movies (including supplement) Leave a comment
• August 24^th WSJ Reports on the ‘Space Shuttle’ in 1969 Leave a comment
• August 18^th The Calculus of Friendship Leave a comment
• August 17^th Football and the ‘Time-In’ Leave a comment
• August 8^th Mad Men and ‘Confessions of an Advertising Man’ Leave a comment
• August 3^rd WSJ Looks Back in Time Leave a comment
• July 23^rd WSJ Discusses Cankles Leave a comment
• July 22^nd Turn Harry Potter into a TV Show 8 comments
• July 17^th Thoughts on ‘Free’ and Science Leave a comment
• July 16^th Musicians whose Surnames Refer to Monetary Value Leave a comment
• July 14^th Kiva Loan Repay Rate vs. Slot Machine Payback Percentages 1 comment
• July 8^th Norman Mailer’s NYC Mayoral Campaign Leave a comment
• July 5^th Randomness and Joe DiMaggio Leave a comment
• June 21^st What To Do If Your Child Has Superpowers Leave a comment
• June 16^th Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious. 2 comments
• April 21^st Aspekte Interview about Facebook Leave a comment
• April 7^th Flash of Genius Leave a comment
• April 1^st Cosimo de’ Medici and Justin Timberlake 2 comments
• March 4^th Milky Way Subway Map Online Store 2 comments
• February 8^th The Arbesman Limit: How to be Famous in a Few Easy Steps 1 comment
• January 25^th Anatomy of a Spring Break Leave a comment
• January 7^th Milky Way Transit Authority 5 comments

2008

• December 10^th What Weather Predictions Actually Mean Leave a comment
• October 9^th Our City Article in ‘New Scientist’ Leave a comment
• August 18^th Welcome Biourbanist Readers! Leave a comment
• June 19^th More on the Buffalo Mega-Region Leave a comment
• May 26^th Buffalo is the Best Commuter City! Leave a comment
• April 13^th Mega-Regions Leave a comment
• March 29^th Joe DiMaggio and Probability 18 comments
• March 26^th The Origins of Gotham Leave a comment
• January 30^th New Transportation Leave a comment
• January 29^th Human Anatomy Terms That Sound Like Things You Would Go See on a Vacation Leave a comment
• January 28^th The People’s Bills 4 comments
• January 28^th 1970′s Chicago-New York Competition Leave a comment
• January 22^nd Why Cities Still Matter Leave a comment
• January 17^th Unrelated-Content Thursday: Eurovision Songs that have become part of the Israeli Music Canon 2 comments
• January 14^th Atlantropa is popular again? 4 comments
• January 12^th LEGO Greenwich Village 1 comment
• January 3^rd Urbanization in the Ancient Near East Leave a comment

2007

• December 13^th Unrelated-Content Thursday Leave a comment
• December 10^th Community Urinalysis Leave a comment
• December 3^rd Where to next, Buffalo? 4 comments
• November 15^th 19.20.21: A Study of the Modern Supercity 2 comments
• November 5^th The Arbesman Limit Leave a comment
• October 29^th Blogging Scholarship Update 2 comments
• October 26^th Frumination: a blog with lots of public transit info Leave a comment
• October 9^th Atlantropa of Herman Sorgel 1 comment
• October 8^th 2007 Blogging Scholarship Finalist 3 comments
• October 1^st Shea Stadium Guard with Two Right Hands 1 comment
• August 28^th Cities Can Increase Thunderstorms Leave a comment
• August 21^st Houston’s Underground Tunnels 2 comments
• July 29^th Chittenango, NY: The Land of Oz 2 comments
• July 3^rd Transportation Future, via A.C. Clarke in 1946 1 comment
• June 15^th Police Sirens, and introducing the Rumbler Leave a comment
• June 13^th Floating Cities 3 comments
• May 18^th Green Space Cools Cities Leave a comment
• May 14^th Manhattanhenge 1 comment
• May 10^th The Shifting Demography of America Leave a comment
• May 9^th Towns Ranked by Most Pre-Orders of Harry Potter 7 Leave a comment
• April 30^th China Plans a Pre-Fab Green Metropolis Leave a comment
• April 26^th City Birds Switch to Singing at Night 2 comments
• April 20^th Best Cities Index Leave a comment
• April 18^th On the Nature of Commuting Leave a comment
• April 16^th AlertMap: Real-Time Global Disaster Map Leave a comment
• April 13^th Spider-Man Week in NYC and Marvel Tourism Leave a comment
• April 6^th Liquid Empire State Building Leave a comment
• April 5^th Chicago of “I, Robot” Leave a comment
• April 2^nd The Skyscraper Museum’s BIG BUILDINGS Leave a comment
• March 28^th NYC Punster Subway Conductor 1 comment
• March 27^th Network Theory in Cities Leave a comment
• March 26^th Fight between Walk/Don’t Walk Sign Guys 3 comments
• March 23^rd House Built from Big Dig Materials Leave a comment
• March 22^nd R2-D2 Mailboxes and USPS Jedi Masters Leave a comment
• March 21^st Indoor Foliage Capital of the World, and Other City Nicknames 2 comments
• March 12^th The Steagles Leave a comment
• March 8^th Lego-Like Buildings 1 comment
• March 5^th Urban Ants and Heat Tolerance Leave a comment
• March 1^st CDC To Cut Funding for Disease Tracking Leave a comment
• February 28^th Census 2010: How to Word Simple Questions Leave a comment
• February 27^th Braess’s Paradox Leave a comment
• February 26^th Michael Chabon’s Sitka World’s Fair Leave a comment
• February 23^rd Gridlock Sam Leave a comment
• February 22^nd Lightning Strikes the Empire State Building 2 comments
• February 21^st Solving the Problem of Traffic Leave a comment
• February 20^th City Evacuation Preparedness Ranking Leave a comment
• February 19^th City Size and Baseball Leave a comment
• February 14^th Joel Kotkin on ‘Superstar’ Cities 6 comments
• February 12^th Megapolisomancy 1 comment
• February 9^th NY Sun: Robert Moses Leave a comment
• February 7^th Heat Island Effect 1 comment
• February 6^th Gibrat’s Law 2 comments
• February 5^th Rethinking the Legacy of Robert Moses Leave a comment
• February 4^th 1942 Time Magazine’s ‘Biology of Cities’ Leave a comment
• February 1^st Cities and Sports Teams Leave a comment
• February 1^st Chicago’s Multilevel Streets 2 comments
• January 31^st New York and Lack of Urban Innovation 1 comment
• January 30^th U-Turns in Seoul Leave a comment
• January 29^th Visual Complexity: complex system visualizations Leave a comment
• January 28^th Lego City of the Future 2 comments
• January 26^th Unusual City Names Leave a comment
• January 25^th Jane Jacobs Radio Interview Leave a comment
• January 24^th Metropolitan Cardiac Authority Leave a comment
• January 23^rd Time-Lapse Cities Leave a comment
• January 23^rd City of the Future Contest Leave a comment
• January 22^nd Global City Leave a comment
• January 21^st Social Science and Online Games Leave a comment
• January 19^th Gardens-in-a-Petri Leave a comment
• January 19^th Canyon of Heroes Leave a comment
• January 15^th Ant City Leave a comment
• January 11^th City Infographics Discussed in the New Yorker Leave a comment
• January 10^th Fractal Cities Leave a comment
• January 9^th The Ecumenopolis Leave a comment
• January 7^th Steven Johnson Interview Leave a comment