January 2012
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December 2011
14 posts
“The great irony and tragedy of “intro econ” is that it is at its introductory...”
– The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS)
Perhaps the most interesting bit,
To casually label economics a science is at best aspirational, at worst manipulative, at a minimum misleading. At the introductory...
“I would really love to spend six months to a year in the Amazon basin, just...”
– Newt Gingrich • In a 1995 Vanity Fair profile. There are lots of fun tidbits in this piece. Even back then, Gingrich was thinking of a presidential run, but his then-wife Marrianne didn’t approve. “I don’t want him to be president,” she said, “and I don’t think he should be” (he eventually divorced...
“What does it say about the movie-going American audience that the film producers...”
– Robin S. Rosenberg, Ph.D.: ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’: What Happened? (via huffingtonpost)
If Steig Larsson was still alive this’d kill him.
November 2011
48 posts
Notes EM: this is how you start a takedown! →
evgenymorozov:
The first paragraph of Matt Cartmill’s review of Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions book. It appeared in the International Journal of Primatology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991)
This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that is not a criticism of it, because its author thinks…
I believe the proper term for this is: “Buuuuuurn.”
“When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle...”
– Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his garage in high school (via nprfreshair
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“Steve Jobs was a visionary, a brilliant innovator who reshaped entire industries...”
– Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson from the Steve Jobs Biography
Apple’s founder and CEO could be a cruel and nasty guy. He was also the greatest chief executive of our time. Don’t go thinking those two things are related.
(via theatlantic)
Idols usually have some kind of clay feet.
"The Grapes Of Wrath," Still Relevant After Seven... →
utnereader:
Melvyn Bragg writes that John Steinbeck’s novel “seems as savage as ever … It is just as alive, with its fine anger against the banks: ‘The bank - the monster - has to have profit all the time. It can’t wait … It’ll die when the monster stops growing. It can’t stay in one place’.”
(via The Guardian)
Monday Cute: The First Rule of Kitten Fight Club... →
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You can only mew and growl about Kitten Fight Club. Monday Cute. Because it’s Monday. Previously in Cute
“The protesters came up to me right away and asked if I needed any medical...”
– Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields • Discussing how protesters treated her after she and videographer Direna Cousins were struck by NYPD officers earlier today. “Direna had a camera in her hand and I had a microphone, and we were being hit,” she said. “When I fell to the ground I said at one...
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
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