2009

Preliminary results from an NBER paper suggest the No Child Left Behind Act improved 4th and 8th grade math scores, but not reading scores.

via Marginal REVOLUTION

Leaked files containing emails and data from climate scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) are spreading quickly online. The blog post includes one full email exchange where two scientists discuss keeping certain papers out of the next IPCC report.

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DealNews shared a deal on a 4-pack of Kingston 4GB USB drives for $26 from Amazon.

The American Dialect Society is searching for the word of the year and the word of the decade to best represent 2009 or the entire 2000s.

Tyler Cowen links to Russ Roberts' essay which takes a skeptical view of top-down remedies for the 2008 financial crisis.