Category: people
anticipation
Frank Rich: If there was a teachable moment in this incident, it could be found in how some powerful white people well beyond Cambridge responded to it. That re...
television
The first victim of status quo ante bellum is the truth? Fox and G.E. Reach Deal to End O’Reilly-Olbermann Feud: Voices From Above Silence a Cable TV Feud.
we’re doing it wrong
MIchael Pollan: Since 1967, we’ve added 167 hours — the equivalent of a month’s full-time labor — to the total amount of time we spend at work each year, and in...
import, export
A wonderful, bitter tasting story about Venezuelan chocolate: With its reliance on cheap labor, the industry seems hard-wired for conflict, though chaos afflict...
meet the neighbors
When the history of this new place called the world wide web is written, it will be interesting to read how its “capitals” developed in relationship...
practical action programs
From the NYT, In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable The study complements a growing body of work suggesting that the speed with which the brain reads and inte...
intelligence
At the end of Social Climbers, David Attenborough presents us with the skulls of several different primates and arranges them on a boulder by size. The primates...
intelligence
Reassuring: The researchers… generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneo...
television
Anthony Bourdain No Reservations in Mexico may be the best episodes of that show and probably the best of its genre. A gem.
family reunion?
Via Ron, Gates and Crowley both related to the O’Neill’s: Ironically, James Crowley, whose name in Gaelic means “hardy warrior,” is also...
journamalism
I should know better than to respond to a post on BoingBoing. When it veers into politics, it’s too often fluffernutter. But this post, by a guest blogger...
I can’t see you, therefore you don’t exist.
Via TPMDC: “Finally, we’re making progress here.” Witness an effective display of what a reality-based community looks like: professional gadf...
lonely islands or happy archipelagos?
Has America gotten happier over the last generation? According to one academic survey, no. By far the most extensive and detailed time series comes from the U.S...
the politics of black goo
two weeks ago, the moral leader of the straw hut party, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, walked away from her elected post, apparently to focus on fighting t...
politesse, served with a slice of pie
Politesse and politics are two sides of the same coin: how we all get along. So it’s not surprising that the last two weeks have been dominated by a story...