Stuff We Like: Response to stimuli, toxic avengers, forever blowing bubbles, and artifact afterlife

RESPONSE TO STIMULI
“Counting Jobs a Political Numbers Game” (KansasCity.com, Associated Press, Apr. 29, 2009)
It’s too soon to measure jobs created—and jobs saved—as a result of stimulus money according to Chicago Booth economics professor Steven J. Davis: “How do you know what a saved job is? How do you know what jobs would have been lost without this?”

TOXIC AVENGERS
“Researchers Look for Better Ways to Clean Toxic Waste” (Eight Forty-Eight, Chicago Public Radio, Apr. 29, 2009)
Argonne National Laboratory scientists describe how they’re cleaning up cancer-causing solvents in soil using poplar trees.

FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES
“Long View: ‘Real People’ Economics” (Financial Times, Apr. 29, 2009)
Chicago Booth professor Richard Thaler talks to the Financial Times about how “real people” economics can help us understand market bubbles and why some are unavoidable.

ARTIFACT AFTERLIFE
“A Fragile History, Besieged” (Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr. 17, 2009)
English and comparative literature professor Lawrence Rothfield, author of the new book The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum, answers questions about the items stolen from the National Museum of Iraq.

May 1, 2009

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