Saturday, May 14, 2011

Lending an air of authority to any argument

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From Cvltvre Made Stvpid via Krugman :

Weekend Gaming -- the greatest board game series ever?

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I was never entirely clear on why 3M decided to get into the board game business, but for more than a dozen years they put out 3M's Book...
Friday, May 13, 2011

"It wasn't our fault... Honest"

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But we'll apologize anyway. We're sorry about the lack of posts. Google's Blogger was down all day yesterday and managed to lose...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Yes, they actually do have a "Best Illusion of the Year contest"

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First watch the video, making sure to stare at the white spot in the center. It probably looked like the dots stopped changing color when th...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

A defense of Star Wars

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This parody was amusing but it has one key problem. Obi-wan Kenobi was a reluctant fighter who constantly tried to avoid killing people. ...
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Another argument for Social Security

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From Felix Salmon : A lot of people have signed up for Wikinvest and handed over access to their brokerage accounts. I spoke briefly to SigF...

Three education stories -- two interesting and one important

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Matt Yglesias and Brad DeLong have an interesting exchange about competition in higher education. I'm not sure either nails it but both...

It's okay to call Oedipus a...

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As I suspect everyone has noticed by now, mainstream media journalists love pox-on-both-their-houses stories, stories where they can point t...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

"This is an egregious example of a public university being willing to sell itself for next to nothing."

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Yeah, 'egregious' is what I'd go for (from the St. Petersburg Times via Chait ): A foundation bankrolled by Libertarian busines...

Pop culture resources -- you may never leave the couch

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Another advantage of studying old pop culture is that it has never been so accessible. When you think about how difficult it was to find so...

While on the subject of old pop culture

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This is a big deal : The Library of Congress is one of the most splendid resources in the country--which is terrific, if you're in DC. ...
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One of the advantages of studying old pop culture...

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...is that it provides a useful reality check against the conventional wisdom around an era. If you spend some time leafing through old comi...
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Great quote on the value of brand

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APM's Marketplace has a good take on Millward Brown's annual brand survey, including this memorable soundbite: Andrew Zolli: Someon...
Monday, May 9, 2011

Why do libertarians not hate geoengineering?

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It would seem to be a check list of everything that offends libertarians -- a large, expensive, centralized program that makes no use of mar...
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Clarity Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias

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Paul Krugman: Because it is, you know, a plan to dismantle Medicare. When you transform a program that pays seniors’ medical bills into a pr...