Sunday, July 1, 2012

On Andrew Sarris

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The film critic Andrew Sarris died a couple of weeks ago. When I was an undergrad getting my extremely marketable BFA in creative writing, ...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Felix Salmon's overview of education

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In a long but pithy post , Salmon uses the over-hyped Aspen Festival as a springboard to discuss education reform, starting with this sharpl...

Fanatical Centrism watch -- inevitable Washington Post Edition

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Sometimes, it's the juxtaposition... Clicking through Economist's View this morning, I came across this bailing-against-the-t...

"The 15 Most Disliked Companies in America"

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There's a common theme running through this list from the Business Insider. Check out how many of these companies face little or no com...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

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When I get some bandwidth I want to do something on codes in the K through 12 classroom. You start with simple table-based codes to have som...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Dude, I'll have you know that was a bitchin' surf shop...

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This Fresh Air interview with aviation journalist William McGee fits in nicely with our ongoing discussion of air travel . The whole thin...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Jonathan Chait on Bush v. Gore and journalistic cowardice

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On the heels of an exceptionally clear-eyed take on the health care debate , Jonathan Chait follows up with an exceptional piece of journali...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

off-beat data for off-beat research

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Or maybe on-beat. A huge trove (50 years worth) of daily police bulletins turned up recently in LA and are going to be scanned and posted f...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Always click the link

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Andrew Gelman has a really weird post on modern art that somehow manages to tie in Warhol, Karl Popper and Al Qaeda. It is built around a b...

Yglesias on the Apple Store

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I wish that I was able to quote the entire by Matt Yglesias, but this portion makes the most important point of the article : More precise...

Great post by Kaiser Fung

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Okay, sometimes you miss a great article and feel really stupid when you do find it.  In this case the author is Kaiser Fung and he provides...

Burn Notice is back

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And, unlike Justified, you still watch this one for free.  
Friday, June 22, 2012

The magic of markets

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Paul Krugman has a very interesting piece about the privatization of prisons : But if you think about it even for a minute, you realize th...
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Google has an interactive Turing tribute

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You really ought to check it out .

Class stratification

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Marketplace has a good story on ( increasingly rare ) marriages across class divides. The whole thing is worth a listen but this part in pa...
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