Andy Ewing

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Name: Andy Ewing
Date registered: September 8, 2008

Latest posts

  1. The New Puppy — December 1, 2008
  2. Think about the Sock Puppets! — December 1, 2008
  3. Sneezes — November 18, 2008
  4. Chuck Norris and the Financial Crisis — October 22, 2008
  5. A-ha — October 10, 2008

Most commented posts

  1. Cheap Dinner Ideas — 4 comments
  2. Juggling Videos, Part Two — 3 comments
  3. Juggling Videos — 2 comments
  4. Teaching and Learning — 2 comments
  5. New Theme — 2 comments

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Sep
18

Yet Another Economics and Poop Post

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It turns out that there are tons of incentive problems with cleaning up after your pet, meaning that as a dog-owning economist with a blog I’m obligated to write about all of them.  I talked about the idea of placing a special bin on city streets for dog-waste in yesterday’s post with an eye toward …

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Sep
17

Energy Independence

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Claire sent me a link to this older article earlier today about San Francisco’s attempt at converting dog poop into energy.  From the article: Under the pilot plan, announced this week, Sunset Scavenger will place biodegradable bags and what are tastefully called dog-waste carts in a popular San Francisco dog park. The dog poo will …

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Sep
16

The Future of Math Education?

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The New York Times ran this article today about the relationship between humans’ intuitive approximate number system that is shared with many other animals and the concocted symbolic number system that we often regard as “math”.  Unsurprisingly, the two seem to be related.  From the article: “What’s interesting and surprising in our results is that …

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Apr
09

I wonder if this would happen to Layla?

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Oct
24

I Feel Safer Knowing This…

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The Washington State Troopers have been named the best dressed patrol in the nation, giving me such a warm and fuzzy feeling inside: The patrol, which has been wearing the peaked hats and distinctive bow ties for about 70 years, recently was named America’s “Best-Dressed State Law Enforcement Agency” by the National Association of Uniform …

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