Sunday, December 31, 2017

Should we care that the congestion tax is regressive?

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This is Joseph Over at Vox, Matt Ygelsias very nicely hits on one of my pet peeves about people calling congestion taxes (and similarly ga...
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Friday, December 29, 2017

The Last Jedi and narrative risks *major spoilers*

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This is Joseph The last Jedi is visually amazing and has some great character moments.  The plot is not the best, although that has rarely...
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Robots reanimating dead musicians

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From NPR (May 28, 2007) Pianist Glenn Gould's classic 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations has never been out of print. Y...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

And you think we're shrill

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Ad running in Scientific American, 1905.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Merry Muskmas to all

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[I've been going back and forth as to whether or not some of this is meant to be read as parody. If I missed some subtle wink from the a...
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Kids and Cars 2

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This is Joseph At some point I thought there was a comment on my last post asking about walking to daycare.  It's actually closer than...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Kids and cars

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This is Joseph Duncan Black has another post up about how nice it is to live in a city , and have a lot of options to avoid driving.  I li...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Christmas Greetings from Slumberland

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From the great Winsor McCay.
Sunday, December 24, 2017

"Albert and Pogo's Christmas" by Walt Kelly

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Friday, December 22, 2017

If you've gone through the holidays without hearing "Sugar Rum Cherry"...

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 ... you have not had a cool Christmas.
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Nine out of ten technomages recommend DNA-aligning essential oils for your essential oil needs

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I've got more to say about this excellent New Yorker piece by Rachel Monroe (and about what Monroe does that other journalists should e...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

A few more words about the official game of Kružno, Slovakia*

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While the gift-giving season is still upon us ... Back when I was teaching high school math, I got very much into games and puzzles a...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

As if you didn't have enough to worry about

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[This is another one of those too-topical-to-ignore topics that I don't have nearly enough time to do justice to, but I suppose that...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post

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[running late this year but there's still time] A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children ...

From the back of the Scientific American -- the ads they'd like you to forget

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From June 19, 1909 From November 21, 1908 From February 2, 1902