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This Black History Month, Tell Me More is taking a look at African Americans in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) who are inspiring future generations.
Today, Barrington Irving shares how his sky high dreams became a reality. A chance encounter in his parents' bookstore put him on a path that would make him the youngest person and first African American to fly solo around the world.
Barrington Irving remembers a man walking into the store dressed in a pilot's uniform. The man asked whether Irving might consider a future in aviation. "I immediately just said to him, I don't think I'm smart enough to do it," Irving remembers/ "Then I asked him how much money he made and after he answered that question, I took an interest in aviation."
Irving's success was far from a sure thing. His family immigrated to the United States from Jamaica when Irving was six. Private flight private lessons were out of the question - so Barrington Irving did what he thought was the next best thing.
He saved his money to buy a flight simulator game that allowed him to fly anywhere and in any kind of weather conditions from the safety of his PC. It was a start, and made him passionate enough to save more of his money so that he could afford flight lessons.
By the time he turned 21, Irving had lost friends to violence and prison, so he was already thinking about his own legacy. "I'll never forget asking myself the question, 'what's one thing I can do whether I live or die that would be worth something?'" he tells NPR's Michel Martin. Irving says an idea hit him - fly around the world.
It was one of those ideas, Irving recalls, that was great in principle, but a struggle in reality. Barrington Irving hit roadblock after roadblock for nearly two and a half years. Funding was difficult to come by. Yet that didn't stop Irving from pursuing his dream.
So at the age of 23, Barrington Irving finally had his plane ready for his flight around the world. But he had no radar, no de-icing system and thirty dollars in his pocket when he left Miami.
Some 97 days later, when Irving returned he was greeted by thousands of people with congratulatory banners and signs, and what really stuck out was the number of young people who had followed his journey.
Building on that inspiration has turned into Barrington Irving's mission in life. He started by challenging kids from some of Miami's failing high schools to build a plane from scratch, which he would then pilot. In late 2014, Irving will also be taking to the skies again with a flying classroom.
He says that children from across the nation and around the world will be able to interact with him as he conducts experiments that they choose and help monitor. He's hoping he will be able to get more students excited about the STEM fields.
"We want to be the best, but we're afraid to challenge our kids to the be the best." That's something that Irving is hoping to change one flight at a time.
This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Coming up, millions of Americans sat down to watch the Super Bowl last night and you can admit it. We know you wanted to see the ads. We'll be checking in with TV critic Eric Deggans about the ads that hit or missed or pushed some people's buttons, not in a good way. That's coming up.
But first, today we begin a series to observe Black History Month, and this year we decided to speak with African-Americans on the cutting edge. For our series this month we are going to speak with innovators who have excelled in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called stem fields, and we begin today with pilot and educator Barrington Irving. He set a world record in 2007 at the age of 23. He was both the youngest person and the first black man to fly around the world alone.
Here he is talking about that trip at a 2011 TED conference in Miami.
BARRINGTON IRVING: My airplane, due to a downdraft, descended from 20,000 feet to 9,200 feet. Now, two things happened in that moment. The first thing that happened was, of course, I did the right thing. I added full power, was able to climb out. The second thing that happened in that moment was that I needed an extra set of underwear.
MARTIN: Now, at the ripe old age of 29, he has recently been recognized by National Geographic as an emerging explorer. His latest mission is building a flying classroom to give kids the experience of seeing mathematics in action. And Barrington Irving joins us now from Miami member station WLRN.
Welcome. Thanks so much for joining us.
IRVING: Oh man, I'm just so excited to be on this with you.
MARTIN: Well, thank you. Let's just start with the idea and then you can talk about the inspiration to do what you did.
IRVING: Well, my parents...
MARTIN: You didn't have a private plane in the driveway?
IRVING: Oh, no. We weren't blessed with a private plane in the driveway. We certainly came from humble beginnings. Family moved here from Jamaica at the age of six. My introduction to aviation was actually random. My parents had a small Bible book store and one day during off season while I was playing football, this gentleman walks into the store dressed in this pilot's uniform and says to me, hey, son, have you ever thought about becoming a pilot?
And I immediately just said to him, I don't think I'm smart enough to do it. And he then said to me, oh, you know, if I can do it, you can do it. Then I asked him how much money he made and after he answered that question, I took an interest in aviation and interest turned into passion and here I am today.
MARTIN: That's all you needed to hear, huh?
IRVING: Yeah.
MARTIN: Well, you know, flying can be quite expensive. No disrespect to the military, but that's one reason why a number of people join the military, but you didn't want to wait for that. In fact, you weren't even old enough to join the military at a time when you started trying to learn how to fly. How did you do it?
IRVING: I purchased - I saved up my lunch money and skipped out on meals. My parents didn't know this. They would kill me. But was able to buy a $40 software made by Microsoft Flight Simulator and on that software, although it was virtual - man, I was able to fly anywhere in the world and simulate certain weather conditions, and that really kept my interest for quite some time until I graduated high school and was able to work hard and afford flight lessons.
MARTIN: How did you actually figure out where to go to get flight lessons?
IRVING: Actually, you'll be amazed at a number of resources out there, as it relates to how to get involved in flight training. For me, it's kind of funny. I'll never forget. We were just so poor and it's kind of embarrassing to say, but I'll say it, anyway. There was a company who had a free six month magazine subscription, you know, and it really talks about aviation and different career opportunities, and I couldn't afford, you know, anything beyond six months. So the first six months, my name was Barrington Irving and then the next six months it was Irving Barrington and then six months after that it was something else.
But, you know, I was just hungry. You know, I was hungry to learn and I was willing to work hard.
MARTIN: How did the idea of flying solo around the world take hold?
IRVING: When I turned 21 years of age, as a black man that really meant something to me. And I'll never forget asking myself the question, what's one thing I can do, whether I live or die, that would be worth something? And I'll never forget. The idea hit me of, you know, what if I did a flight around the world? And the idea was great, but the next two and a half years I faced rejection after rejection and my mental perspective honestly was - what do I have to lose? I had plenty of friends who didn't make it or they got locked up.
It's kind of interesting, you know, and to this day and age I wear a brown flight suit and I've seen others in brown suits, you know, that says Miami Dade County Corrections Department, so it's - for me, in wanting to fly around the world, it was just solely to inspire others.
MARTIN: The fact is it took you, you know, two and a half years. You faced more than 50 rejections for sponsorships before you were finally able to convince several manufacturers to donate individual components. You took off - if I have this right - with - I'm not laughing. It's just hard to envision, because I'm a mother too, and I'm thinking how I would feel if this was my son. No weather radar, no de-icing system, and $30 in your pocket.
IRVING: Yup.
MARTIN: And when you landed, what did you see?
IRVING: I come back and land and I just literally see thousands of people at the airport waving banners and signs and congratulating me, and even the ones who tried to discourage me or I knew they were expecting me to come back in a casket - fighting to shake my hand and to congratulate me.
But what stuck out to me even more was just the amount of students that we had following me online and blogging (unintelligible) which was over 300,000 kids. And you know, I'll never forget that moment.
When I departed out of Miami, I only had $30 in my pocket and I'm reading banners and signs that says, Go Barrington Go, and I'm wondering to myself, where am I going? I only have $30 in my pocket, but sure enough, sure enough, by the time I made my first stop, Miami fundraised close to $100,000 and the further I kept on going, the more money was raised.
MARTIN: Well, what are you up to now? What are you trying to do now? You've got a number of educational programs that you are involved in. Tell me a little bit about those.
IRVING: Yeah. So the past few years for me since flying around the world have certainly been interesting. I've pretty much transitioned from being a pilot to also becoming an educator, and one of the first projects I tested was our build and soar program, where we challenge 60 kids from failing high schools in Miami to build an aircraft from scratch, and not only build it from scratch but I put my life on the line to fly it for its first flight.
A number of those students have gone on to college. A number of them have gotten degrees in various fields. I mean there's one young lady, Baccari, who - at the time of that project, she couldn't point out a sixteenth of an inch on a ruler and now she is on a full scholarship as a math major at Duke University.
MARTIN: Tell me about the flying classroom.
IRVING: We're creating a real life magic school bus by transforming a $5 million private aircraft donated by the Beechcraft Corporation into the world's first flying classroom. So what does that mean?
MARTIN: Hold on. For people who aren't familiar with - who don't have kids, the magic school bus is a series of books where the school bus magically takes kids on all kinds of adventures where they understand, you know, things like the rain forest, the core of the Earth, the environment, stuff like that.
IRVING: Yeah. And...
MARTIN: And this is a real life one.
IRVING: Yeah. Now we've figured out a way to do it in real life, where we will utilize this flying aircraft and be able to not only communicate with classrooms from the air, but we're traveling all seven continents, where we'll conduct various expeditions. It could be around geothermal energy, biodiversity, innovations in technology, but we're doing it in a way where students actually control the results of every mission.
From the meals I eat to the experiments that's conducted and the data and research that's collected, it's all done by the students virtually, and I'm just fulfilling the actions that they choose.
MARTIN: And when will this start?
IRVING: This will start September of 2014 and we're just very excited to be able to collaborate with so many individuals and corporations to create Classroom in the Sky.
MARTIN: What do you think this means? What do you think is the lesson here?
IRVING: It's interesting because the problem that we face in this country as it relates to STEMs - you know, science, technology, engineering and math - is a national problem. We need as many bodies that we can find to become the next leaders in those areas. And I found working with all types of students, this nation faces an even bigger problem. Our problem is the students of today are simply unmotivated, regardless of background or economic status, and I think what we're doing in education - we want to be the best, but we're afraid to challenge our kids to be the best.
And that's where I put forth with action with some of the projects that we're doing. I don't say we're going to do something and expect our students to fail. Failure certainly isn't an option, whether it's building a plane or having kids as young as eight years old building a car faster than a Ferrari.
We have to put tangible challenges with real finish lines in front of these kids' faces because when a child has the opportunity to do those types of projects or anything hands-on or skills-based, they're not looking at - oh, I have to learn the math and science and algebra and chemistry and physics and so forth behind doing some of these things. They're looking at the finish line.
MARTIN: Barrington Irving is a pilot and educator who set a world record as the youngest person and the first black man to fly around the world alone. He spoke with us from WLRN in Miami.
Barrington Irving, thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations, and we can't wait to see what you do next.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to meet with several Republican senators for dinner on Wednesday as part of his effort to revive talks to tackle the nation's long-term deficit, the White House said.
The Democratic president is trying to cobble together what he calls a "common sense caucus" among lawmakers to help resolve U.S. budget woes and push his legislative agenda.
He also is scheduled to travel to Capitol Hill next week, when he will address Senate Republicans at a lunch on March 14.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the lunch will be an opportunity to discuss budget and economic issues.
A source, who asked not to be identified, said Obama also plans to meet with House of Representatives Democrats next week, although the date has not yet been set.
Wednesday's dinner meeting, to be held at a hotel near the White House, could be postponed, the White House said, as Washington faced heavy snow forecasts that already had closed most federal agencies.
In recent days, Obama has searched for common ground with senators who in the past have indicated a willingness to compromise on budget issues. The White House on Sunday suggested talks could center around a broad budget deal that includes new tax revenues as well as reforms to entitlement programs. These include the Medicare health care program for the elderly and disabled and Social Security retirement benefits - programs that are rapidly growing in cost as the population ages.
The Republican U.S. senators Obama has contacted recently include Bob Corker of Tennessee, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Rob Portman of Ohio and Susan Collins of Maine, according to the senators or congressional aides. The White House declined to confirm the names.
Coburn will attend Wednesday's dinner, as will Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota, their aides said. Senator John McCain of Arizona, who ran unsuccessfully for president against Obama in 2008, also will attend, according to an aide. The New York Times said about 12 senators would attend.
At the heart of the U.S. fiscal crisis is disagreement over how to rein in the $16.7 trillion debt. Obama wants to narrow the fiscal gap with spending cuts and tax hikes. Republicans do not want to concede again on taxes after doing so in negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" at the New Year.
Last Friday marked the start of $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts that are to be carried out by September 30. It was not clear whether Obama, in his new contacts with Republican senators, was still trying to negotiate a substitute for those cuts.
Republican leaders rejected higher taxes as part of a budget deal that would have avoided the cuts contained in the so-called sequester that kicked in Friday.
Lawmakers are working short-term to avoid a government shutdown when the current U.S. federal budget expires at the end of March. Bills moving through the House and Senate will incorporate the $85 billion in lower spending.
(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey and Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Doina Chiacu)


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VIDEO: They're back! Cicadas to emerge from 17-year slumber
For 17 years, this pale, dirt-dwelling hermit and thousands like it have lived quiet , obscure lives with daily routines pretty much limited to sucking on tree roots and burrowing small tunnels from their simple nests, rarely if ever interacting with each other let alone other creatures.
For this species, the teen years are the settled ones.
A kidney-bean-sized nymph, lying still in a soil-filled tray near Chris Maier's Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station lab, belied no sign of the frenzy about to come, when its kin will emerge as adult periodic cicadas of brood II, the only one found in this state.
"This is usually considered the insect with the longest life cycle," said Maier, who dug up the nymph in a forested site in North Branford last weekend. "Their long life cycle is both good and bad."
On the "bad" side, their adolescence in a confined, underground area means hundreds can be wiped out quickly by a single home construction project, Maier said. Connecticut had another brood that was wiped out in 1954, and the construction of Interstate 84 destroyed a large segment of brood II.
On the "good" side, he said, a long life ending with a "synchronous" mass emergence after 17 years allows the cicadas to trump opportunistic predators with sheer numbers. It also keeps these defenseless insects a rare delicacy rather than a staple of the diets of cats, raccoons, mice and other creatures that eat them - including humans.
"They're really quite tasty," Maier said, adding that cicadas are popular in some east Asian countries. "If you went on the Internet, you'd find quite a few recipes."
In late May or early June, when the heat of the spring sun penetrates some 10 inches into the underground nests and warms them to 64 degrees, nymphs like the one in Maier's tray will begin a radical transformation.
They will rise from noiseless, solitary grubs to emerge en masse and converge above ground, shedding their skins to become large adults with a one-track mind about what to do with rest of their life: find a mate, lay eggs and die, all in two to three weeks. For this final bacchanalian romp, the adult cicadas exchange their dull nymph features for bright red eyes and translucent wings with a florescent yellow stripe.
"For insects, they're fairly large, about 1¼ to 1½ inches," Maier said. "As soon as they emerge from the ground, they head up into the trees."
After mass singles parties with loud music in the forests of south-central Connecticut and states to the south along the East Coast, the spectacle ends as bodies of the adult cicadas cover the ground in the areas they inhabit. Eggs laid in the branches of trees will hatch in August. The nymphs then burrow back into their underground cells to bide the next 17 years. Each female lays 400 to 600 eggs, but of that, fewer than five will make it to adulthood.
"This will be my third emergence of this brood," the 63-year-old Maier said, recalling his first encounter as a young entomologist in 1979, when he was 29 years old, and his second at age 46 in 1996. "I hope I'm around to see at least one more."
This time around, Maier said, his focus will be on developing precise maps of the range of the periodic cicadas in Connecticut, which are different than their annual cicada cousins that have much different life cycles. Because of the long intervals in between, each emergence of the periodic cicadas gives entomologists the chance to employ new tools and technology not available the last time around.
This time, Maier will be using GPS devices to document where the insects are found with an accuracy never before possible. A grant from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is supporting his work.
"I'm assembling a team of volunteers to assist me, because I want to get off-road to populations on private land and water company lands, and collect specimens," he said. "There's so little time and so much ground to cover."
Brood II lives only in south-central Connecticut, near traprock and basalt ridges mainly in wooded areas. Much of its known range owned by water companies. One of the public areas where these cicadas can be found is Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden. There is also a population on the Magicicada Preserve on land owned by the South Central Connecticut Water Authority in Hamden.
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John Cooley, researcher in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, is also looking forward to the coming emergence. He's planning to spend as much time as he can comparing where he finds them this time to where they were found 17 years ago.
"Connecticut is at the extreme northern edge of their range," he said, "and there are a lot of indications that their range is contracting."
He recalled the experience of being in a forest during the last emergence, when thousands filled the trees and made their mating songs, which some say sounds like the word "pharaoh," with emphasis on the last syllable.
"In the morning, when the sun starts to heat up, there is just this hum that's not coming from any one point source," he said. "It's a sound that just kind of envelops you. If you're in one of the areas where they emerge, you won't be able to ignore the sound."
While the thought of thousands of cicadas blanketing trees and overwhelming the forest with their songs may make some squeamish, people have nothing to fear, Maier said. They don't bite humans, and most of the cicadas stay in the woods, away from developed areas. The only ones with any cause for concern are orchard and nursery owners with property in proximity to areas where cicadas emerge, because the cicadas can damage trees when they bore holes to lay their eggs.
The agricultural experiment station and the UConn Extension Service is planning to contact orchard owners in the area of the cicada range with a list of pesticides "at the low end of the toxicity scale" they can use to prevent cicada damage, Maier said.
"Some have tried putting nets around trees to protect them, but that's only been marginally effective," he said.
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When: May 1 to Sept. 3
Where: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven
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I got the curse in Super Monkey Ball 2 today while trying to bowl a perfect game.
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ok, let me get this straight, THERE IS AND NEVER WILL BE A SUCH THING AS A CURSE!!!! I've said it before and I'll say it again three hundred trillion times if I have to. Its is just some retarded ass excuse that the worst team in baseball the red sox. And it is funny and just goes to show how right I am, that when the red sox were loseing they always would say "Well, its not our fault its the curse of the bambino!" but once they win a world series, the "curse" suddenly went away. And another thing, how the fuck do you get a curse from tradeing Babe Ruth to the yankees???
The curse is a bullshit excuse and the red sox STILL and will ALWAYS suck the yankees balls.
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Experts are warning people not to replace visits to the doctor with smartphone apps that claim to detect skin cancer after a study found the technology gets it wrong almost a third of the time.
A number of phone applications, widely available to the public, market the ability to evaluate skin legions and provide advice to the user about whether it is cancerous.
The apps give a recommendation after comparing photos taken of the suspicious legion over a period of time to gauge unusual changes, or by judging a photo against a library of skin cancer images.
Findings from the study at the University of Pittsburgh have confirmed suspicions about the risks of using phone apps for medical education, prompting health experts to warn people against using the diagnostic tool until they have been proven effective.
Terry Slevin education and research director at the Cancer Council of Western Australia believes the idea is "appealing", but warned the public against using them.
"Relying solely upon the app is potentially dangerous," he said.
Dangerous cases of melanoma were incorrectly identified as being safe in more than 30 per cent of incidents examined in the study which measured the performance of four smartphone programs.
Mr Slevin said while there is an obvious benefit to the user, further research was required before he would recommend the use of such a tool to the public.
"There are some obvious possible advantages — particularly for people in rural and remote settings where seeing a doctor is very difficult."
"The risk of course is — what if people rely on the advice provided by the app — and it's wrong.
"A lesion determined by an app to be benign — or showing no noticeable change by a smartphone photo — may give a false sense of security that no further action is needed. And that may result in a later diagnosis and potentially poorer prognosis," he said.
The Cancer Council WA had been approached by "half a dozen" programmers who asked if it would participate in developing a cancer detecting tool.
"At this stage we are reluctant to sign up," he said.
Mr Slevin said while technology can be useful the Cancer Council WA recommends any suspicions are raised with a doctor in a physical setting.
"For anyone looking to use the app the best place is in the context of a clinical trial that is assessing the effectiveness of them.
"Until, however, the technology is well proven by solid trial data — we are keen that people take the more reliable path by reporting suspicious lesions to their GP," he said.


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STOCKTON - When Elkhorn School eighth grader Grace Lin-Cereghino decided to spend her summer planting and maintaining a garden at her north Stockton school, she didn't realize what it would become.
STOCKTON - When Elkhorn School eighth grader Grace Lin-Cereghino decided to spend her summer planting and maintaining a garden at her north Stockton school, she didn't realize what it would become.
That's not to say the 13-year-old Lin-Cereghino didn't think the 10 large planter boxes would be a prime spot on campus for tomatoes, squash and other vegetables.
"She did this and it turned into a club," said Elkhorn teacher Kristen Burrell. "She started this and now we have a group of 30 that meets every Friday."
The Elkhorn Garden Club has become a weekly science lesson for the middle school age students such as Lin-Cereghino and for some of the school's elementary students like Maya Peyton, 10, who have been placed in charge of bringing any leftovers from lunch that can be made into compost.
"We just bring it out and put it in the compost bin," Peyton said. "Pretty easy."
Lin-Cereghino, the daughter of two micro-biologists at University of the Pacific, is excited to see her summer project take off. The winter garden will replace watermelons and other summer choices with vegetables such as kale, radishes and snow peas.
"I think it will be good to plant some beets," she said, adding that she's also proud that the produce from the garden has been donated to the food pantry at Stockton's Church of the Presentation.
Elkhorn is a Gifted and Talented Education magnet school that has earned its reputation on a nearly perfect score of 995 out of 1,000 on the state's Academic Performance Index. Burrell said she likes that the garden club offers a chance for those that do so well with learning to get some hands-on experience.
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The wonders of creating new baked goods with sweet potatoes always excite me. I am a sweet potato-holic, can't get enough of them. I found this recipe over here, and decided it was perfect, nothing else was needed (although I did change the frosting a bit) and I wanted to create it in mini cupcake form. I love mini cupcakes, so easy to eat so many in a sitting! I just wish I could decorate them better to make them cuter. But I am absolutely horrible at decorating them (as you'll notice in the photo). Plus I really should get one of those turning cake stands--they do help, yes? Do you know that I have on my list to take cake decorating classes? Anyone else out there doing this or have done this? I can't wait. Now I have to hope for a class close to cape cod to appear! I really don't want to have to drive into Boston for this. For those of you that do decorate and are fairly good at it, what did you buy for decorating tools and where? I would love to know, since if I can't find classes, then maybe I can buy them and just practice, practice, practice.
My changes: for the cake no nutmeg, and I used mini cupcake pans. Made about 12 mini's, not much batter. For the frosting I did 1/2 - 3/4 cup of confectioners sugar, 2TB fresh OJ, half stick of room temp butter (unsalted), tiny pinch of salt, whipped up very well and then chilled for a bit before frosting.
sweet potato cupcakes
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Cook notes: this does not make much batter. I was only able to get 12 mini muffins from this. You can try using a loaf pan, but use a small one.
225g mashed cooked sweet potatoes (1 small sweet potato)
150g plain flour
110g butter
100g dark brown sugar
50ml yogurt
1 egg
1 vanilla pod (alternatively you can use vanilla extract but the taste won't be quite the same)
½ tsp ground nutmeg (I did NOT use this)
1tsp baking powder
1 pinch of salt
For the icing:
½ - ¾ cup confectioners sugar
2 TB freshly made orange juice
Half stick of unsalted butter (4 ounces), room temp
Pinch of salt
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350 degrees). Spray a mini cupcake pan with non stick spray.
Cream the softened butter with the vanilla seeds scraped out of the pod, sugar, ground nutmeg and salt.
Add in the egg, slightly beaten.
Mix well until well blended.
Add the mashed sweet potatoes and yogurt.
Combine the baking powder and flour and add to the mixture. Mix well.
Pour the mixture into the pan.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
Leave to cool.
To make the icing, mix the icing sugar, butter whip then add in the orange juice. Chill a bit before frosting.
When the cake is cool, spread the icing on top.
sweet potato & vanilla bean cupcakes
60 comments:
I love sweet potatoes! I am sure I would enjoy the little cakes! They look fantastic!ReplyDelete
Oh my word, wow, I'm in love! This is ho down worthy my friend. My goodness it's just awesome! Love the frosting too.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/26/09, 10:30 AM
Yum! The sweet potato cupcakes with vanilla sound excellent! Great recipe!ReplyDelete
sweet potato and vanilla sound like a wonderful combination!ReplyDelete
I made sweet potato butter last year & then used it in so many baked goods, yum!ReplyDelete
these are like cake puddings - they looks so moist...ReplyDelete
I'm obsessed with sweet potatoes too! I think this would be a great recipe to try the next time I buy sweet potatoes. I bought all my tips at Michaels.. it really helps because they have 40 or 50% off coupons, which go a long way because it really adds up! I just started playing around with them again since I did Wilton class 1 last summer. I want to go back to learn how to use fondant.. it looks so cool!ReplyDelete
I think the 1M tip is the best for those big swirls. I've never used the canvas bags, but I hear they eventually break and can be a pain to clean.
They look so good to me! mmm - I have never done any baking with sweet tatos! I have a gift card for cooking or baking classes and I really can't wait to sign up for one!ReplyDelete
Sweet potatoes work really well in baked goods! Those cupcakes look good!ReplyDelete
Yum! I did cupcakes on my post too. Decorating is not my thing either but I am more about taste:)ReplyDelete
Those look soooooo good. Can we call them muffins and eat them for breakfast? Please?ReplyDelete
Heh, I've never tried to decorate a cupcake past slathering on some frosting. But I don't think those need any fancy stuff, they look great as is.ReplyDelete
Hee, I'm quite horrible at decorating, I just like playing with my food. I've never handled huge amounts of buttercream before-- never had the luxury of having that much butter on hand at once!ReplyDelete
Don't worry about the cupcakes-- they may not look decorative but they sure look delicious :)
One of my goals is to bake and decorate a layer cake, but I have no idea where to start, lol. Yeah, these mini cupcakes sound awesome. So glad you're enjoying the warm weather :)ReplyDelete
Brilliant combination of flavours here. And I think they look just gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Yum - they look fantastic, sweet potatoes are so great in desserts! I would also love to take a cake decorating class.ReplyDelete
Oh, sweet potatoes how I love thee. LOL. That's just awesomeness right there, Dawn.ReplyDelete
These must be really rich and luxurious! I love splurging on vanilla beans and elevating baked goods to fragrant heaven, I've never tried it with SP, but these sound great! Thanks for sharing and for the gorgeous photos :)ReplyDelete
I want one, I want one, I want one. Ok that's 3 already! Sweet potatoes are so great in baked goods! And forget about decorating skills, they look just adorable!ReplyDelete
Oh, what a great idea, I love sweet potatoes, and mini cupcakes. They are the best. I love my rotating cake stand, and off set spatulas. I want to take a cake decorating class too - I hear good things about Wilton. I took a fondant cake class recently in SF that was super fun.ReplyDelete
I love pumpkin muffins, and these sound even better. Yum. Delicious.ReplyDelete
These mini cakes look super cute. As for decorating, I'm still not good at it but it does take a lot of practice. The more I practice the better I get. When I didn't know where to start I started browsing through youtube for instructional videos and that gave me an idea of what tools to start purchasing.ReplyDelete
Rock on! The combo looks quite tasty. =) There seem to be more and more recipes with flavors I would never had expected together.ReplyDelete
Thanks for expanding my recipe list once again.
Um, total YUM! I'm just wondering, could those BE more moist! De-lish. I want one right now. Love it!ReplyDelete
Yep, the turning cake thingies are great. I actually use my lazy susanReplyDelete
- Elizabeth from Australia4/26/09, 9:39 PM
Dawn, these muffins look good. The frosting is looking good also. I want to like the bowls........ReplyDelete
Dawn this sounds so good! I bet the orange in the frosting complimented the sweet potato very well!ReplyDelete
I love sweet potatoes too. We just had them with our steak dinner...mmm. And our bunny loves them also :-)ReplyDelete
I found a really good webite for conversions just the other day. I'll have to send you the link. As for decorating, I just use a ziploc bag. Get the Hello Cupcake book and there are many tips in there on how to use baggies in leiu of tips.
Dawn, these look fabulously delicious. I wish we could take classes together; it would be so much fun! You have me craving sweet potatoes. I don't bake nearly enough with them. They're so moist and delicious; I really must rectify this soon!!ReplyDelete
I liked the idea of adding sweet potatoes to muffins. The frosting looks fab too :)ReplyDelete
count me among the many sweet potato lovers out there, particularly when they're mashed to oblivion and topped with a buttery frosting. :)ReplyDelete
I'm a sweet potato a holic too! These looks great and any way I can find to incorporate sweet potatoes into a dish, is a good thing. I love the frosting too...doesn't seem to overpower the cupcake.ReplyDelete
There you go again Dawn. You constantly make me crave food that I would never think to make. These little beauties look incredible.ReplyDelete
This is a brilliant sweet idea! I love the use of the sweet potato and I can just imagine how the vanilla kicks up the flavor. Perfect!ReplyDelete
Sweet potato and vanilla make such a wonderful partnership. Those cupcakes sound and look amazing!ReplyDelete
my oh my, how i would love one of these right now!!ReplyDelete
I made sweet potato muffins once and they were delicious. I bet that sweet potato is even better in cupcake form! These look amazing.ReplyDelete
I would love to have some of them beauties to pop in my mouth-right now!! What moist, decadent little treats!ReplyDelete
wow. i adore sweet potatoes..have never had it in a cupcake though. will keep this recipe for when the girlfriend comes round. she loves sweet potatoes ALOT. xReplyDelete
I think you did a bang up job on the frosting! Really, they look great and I love that you topped them with a generous amount.ReplyDelete
I've taken cake decorating courses(two). Before you give them your money make certain that you sit in on the teacher. Mine knew just a hair more than I did which isn't saying a lot. I should actually take the classes again. Even taking the classes piping takes tons of practice. I would definitely look to buy one of those kits. Michaels sells a decent one and if you wait you'll find a 40% off coupon which makes it very affordable. Good luck and I'm certain you'll be well!
I can't wait to make these!ReplyDelete
My Ma took cake decorating and when I was little I would sit for hours and watch her decorate the most beautiful cakes. She made it look so easy. Some of it is and some not so much. It does take alot of practice practice practice. I wonder if you could find a good class on DVD- Wilton maybe?? I remember Ma making 10 fowers and picking only 1 or 2 that looked right. She also did candy fondant and hollow sugar eggs like the ones you see at Easter. Hope you can find a good class. Oh and here is a tip use disposable piping bags that you can get in bulk at a restaurant supply store. I go to Restaurant Depot in Chelsea I think. Maybe you have one closer. The other bags are a pain to wash all the time and get yucky.ReplyDelete
My BFF took a decorating class and loved it. Never would have thought sweet potatoes in a sweet-yeah, don't go there with the name, I'm dense some (most) times :)ReplyDelete
No matter what you say, those cupcakes look excellent - as far as cupcakes are concerned, I say the messier the better!ReplyDelete
I love the idea of these. My brother's favorite kind of cake is carrot cake but I don't love it. But I DO love sweet potatoes and would probably eat these right up!ReplyDelete
MMMMM...Dwan!! these look super delicious!ReplyDelete
Yummie & fab pictures too!
- Anonymous4/28/09, 7:45 AM
anything with sweet potato is AWESOME in my opinion! yum!ReplyDelete
I am a sweet potato-holic too! I just love those beautiful orange gems! These cuppy cakes look great!ReplyDelete
I love that you want to try your hand at cake decorating! That is the next big thing for you, methinks.
Glad you like the website! :)
Those cakes look wonderful I could sink my teeth into one right now!
I know how you feel about sweet potato and cakes - totally gorgeous.
By the way I think the frosting tops those cakes off perfectly YUM!
I am always looking for new ways to deal with sweet potatoes. They are so flavorful and amazing but kind of burnt on just baked or mashed.ReplyDelete
I also never realized how easy frosting is till I started reading your blog. I always thought it was some mumbo jumbo involving voodoo :-)
Nicely done and pics look awesome!
I love sweet potatoes. What a great idea to use them in cupcakes.ReplyDelete
wow, this is a flavor combo I would never have thought of. really interesting.ReplyDelete
everything you make looks like the ultimate version of it. those look so good, i want one right now!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you liked the recipe :)ReplyDelete
And what a great idea to make cupcakes with it!
Nathalie from Serial Cooking
I LOVE sweet potato cake! :DReplyDelete
I'm not a very big fan of sweet potatoes, but those look amazing.ReplyDelete
Let's battle over who is the biggest sweet potato fan. Not sure who would win. Juuuuust maybe you because you made these cupcakes, but even then, it'd be a hard race. :) So so so so so good Dawn. So good!ReplyDelete
WOW! I am truly OBSESSED with sweet potatoes so I will be definitely trying out this recipe. Sounds so sinfully delicious! THANK YOU!ReplyDelete
i will make these...maybe by the weekend, sounds amazing! when i do i will post to my blog! :)ReplyDelete
I love trying new recipes...and new flavor combos!
as far as decorating classes...wilton does classes out of Michael's craft stores...super cheap...but if you don't want to do the classes...go on ebay and buy the wilton method decorating classes books 1,2, + 3. it's what they give you when you take the classes. I took the level one, even though I knew the basics, it was still good to WATCH someone actually do it.
but of course the most important thing is to practice!!!
thanks for the post!!!


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I'm embarrassed to show these now, but at the time they were fun to do and were considered pretty radical.
The perspective and construction is off in a few places.
This model is too cluttered in the face and too pointy in general.
Lynne Naylor's models had a nicer overall feel to them. She too used angles, but softened the corners and made them flow into the curves. This made the characters seem more organic and real.
All model designs tend to be stiff when created out of thin air. The best models come from the layouts, after you have taken your designs and moved them around and made them do things in context of the story. All these same characters came to life in the actual stories.
It was lucky for me that Bob Singer didn't hire me to just do model sheets. Instead Bill and Joe sent me to Taipei to do layouts - and as a bonus, told me to throw out the HB models and do my own.
Having to draw layouts from my own designs was the best thing to happen to me. When you draw character designs in the abstract you are just drawing pictures of characters that exist floating on a page - like a sketchbook doodle. Even if I'm thinking about the character's personality (which I always do) I can't be sure if the design will actually work for animation. It might not be functional.
When you take these same drawings and all of a sudden have to move them around, bend, grab things, walk, talk and come to life you start to see problems in the design - which we did while doing Jetsons layouts.
Luckily, we had the freedom to take liberties with the designs as we posed the cartoons and we could improve the functionality as we went. This liberty doesn't exist at most studios that demand you never veer of-model - even to correct mistakes or eliminate stiffness.
You can't be a good designer if you have never inbetweened, animated or done layouts. You will just be pasting on your own drawing problems to the next department - who in most studios is not allowed to interpret your designs to make them work.
A cartoon designer needs some basic talents:
1) an instinctive design sense-
He/she needs to have what all designers in any craft have - a natural sense of balance, organization and appeal.
Not all cartoonists and animators have this ability (as you could see from my post yesterday)
Designers need this natural gift. It can't be learned; it has to be innate. But it's still not enough.
2) Experience in animation, assisting, layout
This should come first before you ever design anything. You should have a good idea of what makes things work functionally. When you have these skills, then you can apply them to your designs.
Ed Benedict, Tom Oreb, Tom McKimson, Chuck Jones, all the admired designers of the past had learned their craft from the ground floor up. They started as assistants, animated for awhile or did layout and then began designing their own characters.
We haven't had this logical production system in decades. When I started, each department existed by itself in the abstract and didn't communicate with the other departments. Bob Singer at HB would hire students from his model design classes and plop them cold into the model department with no experience ever doing production work first. I'm not picking on Bob; this happened at every studio. There was also a crazy theory that you should be able to design in any style. Cartoonists should also be able to do superhero shows. This is utterly crackpot thinking. There is the odd person like Jim Smith who can do both, but he is rare indeed.
Lots of great classic designers couldn't transition from 40s style to 50s style, but tried anyhow. Designers are individuals with their own specialties and tastes and should be cast according to the tone of the shows they work on. What they all should have in common is experience doing the real work of animation first.
I know Alex Toth has a huge fan base and his model sheets for HB's superhero shows are very handsome indeed. But look at the shows!
No one could animate those designs. They didn't work for animation and the whole 70s decade is considered the dregs of animation history because of it.
And there were other "realistic" designers that didn't have Toth's talent. Those shows are even worse.
This Saturday Morning cartoon design style has since even seeped into feature animation:Why would anyone spend a couple hundred million dollars on something that looks like a low-budget Saturday Morning cartoon? Anyone have an answer for that? Will?
Many of the modern features are filled with characters that don't go together; they look like they are from different design schools and this makes your involvement in the stories suffer when it is so obvious.
Today's TV execs hire kids out of college who can't draw at all, let alone have any design sense and absolutely don't have any experience - and they not only let them design shows, sometimes they even let them create shows and boss around artists with actual experience! This has to be the most illogical inefficient period of animation history yet.
The Jetsons wasn't any great achievement, but it opened the door to a short period of cartoons returning to some measure of common sense.


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Magazine publishers continue to uneasily navigate print and digital worlds. Harper's Magazine publisher John MacArthur shared his perspective on the importance of online pay walls in the magazine's October issue. All Things Considered speaks with MacArthur, MediaFinder's Trish Hagood and the co-founder of year-old literary magazine The American Reader about the changing publishing industry. You can hear all of these conversations at the audio link above.
One year ago, The American Reader jumped headfirst into the literary publishing world. The monthly print and digital magazine features new fiction, poetry, criticism and essays.
What were they thinking?
Co-founder and editor-in-chief Uzoamaka Maduka, who's in her mid-20s, says she heard that question a lot. But she has an answer: Maduka and co-founder Jac Mullen wanted to "bring the literary conversation back to the center of American cultural discourse," especially among millennials.
"The generation which I'm a part of, when it comes to technology, we're ambidextrous," she tells Arun Rath, host of All Things Considered. "We like to have choices between print or digital. And I don't think it really profits anyone to be led by the nose by that sort of hysterical reaction."
That "hysteria" she's referring to is the notion that print is dead and that readers' attention spans have shrunk, so content needs to be "shorter, more accessible — 'accessible' being a buzzword for dumbing things down."
"We felt that the opposite was the case. Among our generation, we felt people were hungry for more sophisticated writing, for deeper engagement with the topics of the day," Maduka says.
She says "bad advice" over the past 10 years has had publishers shying away from that.
"And the readers have really suffered. And I think it's up to discerning editors right now to bring us back to where we need to be," she says.
But editing is one thing, and making money is another. The American Reader has avoided an online pay wall in order to attract new readers.
"For us — because we're just starting out — we're more inclined to give more of our writing basically away for free because we want people to get to know what we're doing," she says.
Maduka says digital and print content are really extensions of one another, rather than different "versions" of the same thing.
There is a lot of labor that goes behind every piece, though, and giving it for free online "devalues" the writing in a way, she says. The magazine is paying its writers, but "it's a constant sort of shadow on the work that we're doing — if it continues to be devalued at this rate, it will become harder and harder to do so."
Still, she is optimistic: "People are going back to traditional forms. People are asking for the editor again. People are asking for smart writing again. And smart writing, smart editors require money."
One year in, The American Reader has new partnerships, including with Barnes & Noble and Salon.com, and about 1,100 print subscribers — with high hopes of a larger circulation in the coming years.
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath.
Coming up, the chilling effect of NSA surveillance, stories that never get written. But first...
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RATH: But you know the story. The Internet came and everything changed. Bookstores folded. The vast majority of magazines put their content up online because the conventional wisdom at the time said that you had to plant your flag on the Web. Build it, and they will come. And they did come in huge numbers. The problem was they didn't pay anything. That may be changing, and that's our cover story today: Who pays for your contact?
RATH: John R. MacArthur is the president and publisher of Harper's, a magazine that's been around since 1850. And since the beginning of the Internet age, Harper's has protected its writing behind a pay wall, despite MacArthur's many colleagues considering him a bit of a dinosaur.
In a publisher's letter last month in Harper's, MacArthur lambasted the industry for trashing what he calls the compact between writer and reader.
JOHN R. MACARTHUR: My quarrel is with the publishers and the advertising agencies who have turned writing into what they unfortunately refer to as content. And there's been a systematic degradation of the craft of writing, not just of payment for writing. And I am trying to restore a certain amount of respect for writers and writing.
RATH: Why did everyone just start putting up content - sorry to use that word - for free?
MACARTHUR: Well, the publishers, most of whom are ex-ad salesmen or currently ad salesmen, are mainly interested in what they call total audience and cost per thousand. And they imagined that since the Web reached potentially billions of English-reading consumers, their audience was, in theory, almost infinite. And the cost per thousand for reaching those people, if they gave away the information, gave away the articles, would drop to levels that would excite ad agencies.
And, of course, the opposite has occurred. The ad agencies got excited about social media and about Google, which they think, at least at this point, are much more efficient ways to advertise.
RATH: Why at the time didn't Harper's jump on that free-content bandwagon?
MACARTHUR: I realized when I first got into this that if you didn't have committed readers willing to pay for writing, you didn't really have much of a future. You didn't have really much of a magazine. That made a better subscriber for advertisers, and it made a better reader for writers, in my opinion.
So I said to the young people on my staff who were clamoring for free, free, free, let's be like everybody else, I said, forget it. I said, if we can't convince our readers that we're producing something of value that they should pay for, we're finished.
RATH: If the readers are getting to the material, though, you know, whether it's through a digital portal or behind a pay wall or not, what does it matter?
MACARTHUR: Well, they won't get to - the material will stop being produced. If nobody can make a living writing, which is where we're getting, writing or writers, as we know them, are going to disappear. I cite one example in Harper's. We published a series of photographs from Iran that were taken by an anonymous photographer who risked their liberty and cost us a lot of money - I think all told $25,000 - to send them to Iran to take pictures that the government doesn't want us to see.
Now, why shouldn't that person be compensated for what they did, for the risk they take? Why shouldn't we be compensated for it? Why should it be free? And Google, they just want to aggregate it, as they say, and relay it across their network and then sell advertising adjacent to it. They don't want to compensate the photographer or us. So we take all the risk, we do all the work, and we don't get any of the benefit. That's not a healthy equation. And it's going to wind up deeply, deeply - it's already damaged American democracy in my opinion.
RATH: Is Harper's making money?
MACARTHUR: Well, we don't know how this year's going to turn out. Last year, we lost a little, but I'm cautiously optimistic. Now, that being said, it's a crisis right now. The odds against us are heavy when you take into consideration the immense propaganda now that has been pushed forward on the free-content model.
And unless people come to their senses - and I see them coming to their senses now at The New York Times - and they never lost their senses at the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal - unless people come to their senses and realize that the advertising's not coming back and we have to charge the subscribers more or the newsstand buyers more, we are going to be out of business. And it's going to be catastrophic for American culture.
RATH: John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine.
Now, Harper's has it easier than most. They've got 160 years of heritage to attract paying customers. The other companies that make pay walls work, like the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times, also tend to have established reputations and existing readers. Uzoamaka Maduka does not. She and her partner started the American Reader just one year ago.
Didn't people say, what are you thinking trying to launch a magazine right now?
UZOAMAKA MADUKA: Yes. And especially said, what are you thinking trying to launch a print magazine right now?
RATH: The American Reader is a monthly publication of new fiction, poetry and criticism. For Maduka, setting up a pay wall just isn't feasible.
MADUKA: Because we're just starting out, we are more inclined to give more of our writing basically away for free because we want people to get to know what we're doing. But certainly, I think for those people who've been around longer, I do agree with Mr. MacArthur. I think it is a very disastrous road to go down.
RATH: Maduka is in her mid-20s. She's right in the middle of the millennial generation that publishers think had abandoned the printed page. Well, think again.
MADUKA: You know, it's been my experience that our generation, when it comes to technology, we're ambidextrous. We like to have choices between print or digital. And I don't think it really profits anyone to be led by the nose by that sort of hysterical reaction.
RATH: What's the kind of hysteria like? What's the kind of sky is falling things that you're hearing?
MADUKA: Well, the idea that print is dead, that, you know, no one is going to be reading in that form anymore, that because people have short - diminished attention spans, first of all, the fact that that would be the case. Secondly, that this would mean that all the content, as people call it, would have to be shorter, more accessible - accessible being a buzzword for dumbing things down.
We felt that the opposite was the case. Among our generation, we felt people were hungry for more sophisticated writing, for deeper engagement with the topics of the day. These are things that people have been shying away from in the past 10 years because of the bad advice that they have been getting because of the sort of histrionic attitudes that have been going on throughout the industry. And the readers have really suffered. And I think it's up to discerning editors right now to bring us back to where we need to be.
RATH: Uzoamaka Maduka says The American Reader has just over 1,100 paid subscribers for the print edition of the magazine. That might have market a failure 20 years ago. But today, with cheaper printing runs and fewer middlemen, smaller print runs are feasible.
RATH: So what does the future hold? Can your local paper, for instance, start protecting its reporting behind a pay wall as well? According to Trish Hagood of the database MediaFinder that won't work.
TRISH HAGOOD: Well, because news is ubiquitous. For something to be special - I mean, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, like Money - the data has to be proprietary or essential. If you have a unique product, then you can maintain a pay wall. If you have a product that anybody can get anywhere, like the news, you're in trouble.
RATH: Hagood says fewer magazines started up this year but fewer folded as well. In the meantime, more pay walls are going up. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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If you created the world as a simple economic thought experiment, companies wouldn't exist. Instead, everybody would work for themselves, and they'd be constantly selling their labor (or the fruits of their labor, or use of their tools, or whatever) to the highest bidder. Wages would rise and fall every day (every hour! every second!) depending on supply and demand. That's how the market works, after all.
But the real world is full of big companies that work like centrally planned economies, with powerful managers telling employees in different divisions what to do and workers earning wages that are mostly steady.
Why does this happen? As Matt Yglesias writes: "If markets are so great, what's with all the bosses and colleagues and meetings and internal office politics?"
Ronald Coase, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who died Monday at age 102, answered that question 81 years ago. The short version: The free market can be a huge hassle, and letting the market set prices for everything is not always the most efficient approach.
As Coase said in his Nobel acceptance speech:
"I found the answer by the summer of 1932. It was to realize that there were costs of using the pricing mechanism. What the prices are has to be discovered. There are negotiations to be undertaken, contracts have to be drawn up, inspections have to be made, arrangements have to be made to settle disputes, and so on. These costs have come to be known as transaction costs. Their existence implies that methods of coordination, alternative to the market, which are themselves costly and in various ways imperfect, may nonetheless be preferable to relying on the pricing mechanism, the only method of coordination normally analyzed by economists. It was avoidance of the costs of carrying out transactions through the market that could explain the existence of the firm in which the allocation of factors came about as a result of administrative decisions (and I thought it did)."
Coase wrote up his insight in a paper called The Theory of the Firm, which was published in 1937 and became one of the most cited papers in economics.
A few decades later, Coase published another incredibly influential paper, The Problem of Social Cost, which gave rise to the Coase Theorem. Josh Barro has a nice explanation:
"Coase's most famous contribution is the Coase Theorem, which holds that the problem of externalities — that is, me taking an action that imposes a cost on you — can be fixed without government action so long as property rights are clearly defined and transaction costs are low.
"My favorite example of the Coase Theorem in action relates to airline seats. A lot of people like to complain about airline passengers who recline, taking away precious knee-room. But Coase would have said there's a simple solution to this problem: pay the person in front of you not to recline. If you value your knee space more than he values the option to lean back, the seat will stay upright where it belongs. There's no need for the government, or the airline, to intervene to protect your knees."
Coase's big ideas seemed rather obvious, even to Coase himself. In his Nobel speech, he wrote that his contribution had been to point to "features of the economic system so obvious that ... they have tended to be overlooked."
He kept working throughout his life and published his final book, on the rise of China's economy, at age 101. We interviewed him about the book last year.
"China's rapid emergence as a global economic power — one of the most important developments of the past generation — took him completely by surprise.
" 'I thought it would take 100 years, if not more,' Coase said.
"It seemed striking that an economic legend could be so wrong about such an important subject. I asked Coase what he made of this.
" 'I've been wrong so often I don't find it extraordinary at all,' he said."
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase died this week at the age of 102. David Kestenbaum with our Planet Money team says Coase was a careful thinker who liked to tackle deep questions right up to the end.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: When Ronald Coase accepted his Nobel Prize for Economics, he said that he had known some great economists but never counted himself among them. His contribution, he said, had been to study things that were so obvious they tended to be overlooked.
MICHAEL SCHILL: Ronald was an amazing scholar.
KESTENBAUM: Michael Schill is dean of the University of Chicago Law School where Coase was a professor.
SCHILL: He didn't write tons and tons and tons of articles, the ones he wrote - and we should all be so lucky in our life to have one of them, or half of one of them.
KESTENBAUM: One of the papers that won him Nobel Prize concerned a deceptively simple question: Why do companies exist? In theory, in a free market we could all work for ourselves. We wouldn't need giant companies or companies at all. Coase's explanation was that, in essence, the free market can be a hassle. If we were all on our own, we'd waste time bargaining over everything. We'd need zillions of legal contracts between all of us.
Companies, he argued, were in essence shelters from the open markets. Sandeep Baliga, an economist at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, says Coase asked deep questions, and he reasoned out his answers almost as a philosopher would.
SANDEEP BALIGA: He always had cute examples about cattle grazing and things like that and no equations whatsoever in his papers. So if you compare it with contemporary economics, they're just completely different. He was anti-math.
KESTENBAUM: Coase could also be very practical. He famously argued that the government should treat the television spectrum and radio spectrum like property and auction off licenses, which eventually the government did, bringing in billions of dollars of revenue. Coase lived through some huge economic events: the Great Depression, the end of the gold standard, the growth of the global economy. And he never really stopped working. I interviewed him last year. He'd just co-authored a book.
RONALD COASE: I'm 101 at the moment. I get older by the minute.
KESTENBAUM: The book was about China, how it had gone from communism to capitalism so suddenly. That surprised him he said. It surprised everyone.
COASE: I thought it would take 100 years if not more.
KESTENBAUM: What does that teach us that we were all wrong about the speed?
COASE: I don't know. I've been wrong so often. I don't find it extraordinary at all.
KESTENBAUM: Michael Schill at the University of Chicago says that just five weeks ago, Ronald Coase told him he was planning to go to China to give some lectures. Schill says that the university was helping renew his passport when he became ill. David Kestenbaum, NPR News.
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