Free Agent, Professor, and Superforecaster
Earlier this summer, I wrote a post about the 2022 World Cup. Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup in December of 2010 at a meeting in Zürich. Usually, facts like the time of year and the place a decision happened are inconsequential. However, from what we know about decision-making, it’s possible that these small factors may …
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I recently saw a tweet that was rather intriguing: Adm. James Stavridis: Today’s Middle East looks like Europe before World War I http://t.co/yWJw3zmmfw — Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) July 21, 2013 If you care about international relations, this probably was rather intriguing to you, too. The part that got me interested was the comparison between what …
Continue reading “Does the Middle East Today Look Like Europe Before WWI?”
A couple of days ago, I saw a headline that the FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, was going to ask the executive committee to consider moving the 2022 World Cup, set to be played in Qatar (a country that borders Saudi Arabia), to the Winter. It seems to me that this should have been considered when …
Continue reading “Who Wants to Play Sports in 122° Weather, in the Middle East, in the Summer?”
Earlier this morning, I came across a headline that was a bit shocking (to me): “Americans Support the Keystone XL Pipeline by Wide Margin.” All of the data I’d seen regarding polls of Americans showed that there certainly wasn’t a wide margin in support or against the pipeline. So, with my curiosity piqued, I clicked the …
Continue reading “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: America’s Dependence on Mideast Oil”
Last month, there was a big hullabaloo when Al Gore sold Current TV to Al Jazeera. A great majority of that outrage (at least from what I could tell) stemmed from the fact that Al Jazeera is an Arabic news network (or to that’s their perception). Note: the criticism of selling to an oil-backed company …
Jeremiah Stanghini 