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Gradually-increasing gas tax that’s buffered against price shocks
May 25, 2013 0

Gradually-increasing gas tax that’s buffered against price shocks

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Tweet That’s the answer. The question is what’s better environmentally and economically than the current situation of an inadequate gas tax and a price that swings widely. We need to increase the gas tax, a lot, to cover the economic externalities, decrease overconsumption, accelerate the transition away from internal combustion engines, and pay for infrastructure previously paid for by gas taxes on inefficient engines.

Unsolicited and sadly unpaid game endorsement: Geoguessr
May 25, 2013 0

Unsolicited and sadly unpaid game endorsement: Geoguessr

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 Posted by Brian Rabett Run Subscribe Rabett Run Posts Posts Comments Comments Contributors Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

Why MOOCs fail
May 22, 2013 0

Why MOOCs fail

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Tweet Thoreau at High Clearing has been going on for some time about MOOCs and why he thinks they are a failing fad. He proposes a new buzzword, Hight-Touch Engagements, e.g. small classes, Online tools won’t go anywhere* (despite my bitching, I use a few of them to supplement my evil in-person class, I just don’t go around preaching that I’m saving the world with some new religion), but in a few years the fad will switch from sending everybody to college on their sofa with an LCD to some sort of opposite extreme.

The Tornados of Tomorrow
May 22, 2013 0

The Tornados of Tomorrow

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John Mashey said… A definition of small government:when *your* state is in trouble from disaster, Federal help would be wasteful, but when it’s my state, it’s different.May we should do this differently.1) States can either opt in or out of Federal or regional disaster aid, and if opt in, pay for it, i.e., to spread the risk