Monthly Archives: September 2012

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The Danger Of Keeping Secrets « Happiness in this World.

“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.” E. M. Forster

“To hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you’ve been bad or good – and cares about any of it – is the chimpanzee part of the … Continue reading →

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Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing | Brain Pickings.

Nate Silver: The polls aren’t wrong – Salon.com.

Reblogged from Why Evolution Is True: According to the BBC Science & Environment site, the 20012 Ig®Nobel Prizes were recently awarded (IgNobel site here). As you may know, these are satirical prizes that honor the most bizarre-sounding research of the … Continue reading →

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Obama set precedent with Drone Killings for Romney to become Terminator-in-Chief (Ross) | Informed Comment.

Settler Violence and Ethnic Cleansing: Mahmoud Abbas at the UN on What Israel is doing to the Palestinians | Informed Comment.

Why police lineups can’t be trusted – Salon.com.

Timeline: A Guantanamo Death Foretold – ProPublica.

delanceyplace.com 9/24/12 – it’s tough to be a male.

delanceyplace.com 9/28/12 – the most important invention in economic history.

Letters of Note: Your road manager needs a POKE.

Letters of Note: All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous.

Illinois Alumni Magazine | University of Illinois Alumni Association.

MEK decision: multimillion-dollar campaign led to removal from terror list | World news | guardian.co.uk.

Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.

Obesity – Salon.com.

Boston Review — Philip Gourevitch and Cécile Alduy: Telling Stories About the Stories We Tell.

George Monbiot – Romnesia.

George Monbiot – The Mind Thieves.

Reblogged from Fair For All: A lot of time is spent pressuring brands over their supply chains (though not nearly enough). People ought to challenge themselves about this: are you just picking on the brands that you see most often: … Continue reading →

John Quiggin – Prospects of a Keynesian utopia.

A Siberian Summer – In Focus – The Atlantic.

THE MYTHS OF MUSLIM RAGE | Pandaemonium.

Can String Theory Be Tested? « NOVA’s Physics Blog: The Nature of Reality.

Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan | Living Under Drones.

‘Every Person Is Afraid of the Drones’: The Strikes’ Effect on Life in Pakistan – The Atlantic.

Book Review – ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling – NYTimes.com.

How to Make Almost Anything | Foreign Affairs.

Rolling Stone Mobile – Politics – Politics: Mitt Romney’s Real Agenda.

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Netanyahu 2002: Iraq has Centrifuges ‘the size of Washing Machines’ to Produce A-Bomb | Informed Comment.

http://nyti.ms/S6swOX NYTimes: Displaying the Dinosaurs of the Digital Age The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., has a new 25,000-square-foot permanent exhibition dedicated to innovations and artifacts throughout the history of computing.

http://nyti.ms/QbhNx0 NYTimes: 36 Hours in Dubrovnik, Croatia With its medieval Old Town and bird’s-eye views of the Adriatic, Dubrovnik is no longer anyone’s best-kept secret.

http://nyti.ms/Ql9XRv NYTimes: Inside the Mind of Worry The basic architecture of the brain ensures that we feel first and think second.

http://nyti.ms/QlWEQS NYTimes: A Guitar Maker Aims to Stay Plugged In Fender, the guitar company made famous by the likes of Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, is facing big challenges amid the fickle tastes of Wall Street and the … Continue reading →

http://nyti.ms/OoSv3d NYTimes: Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes? Evidence suggests that Alzheimer’s might be another form of diabetes, and links both to the overconsumption of junk food.

http://nyti.ms/UU7GTi NYTimes: Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf Wolves and other predators have a powerful effect on the well-being of the ecosystems around them.

Raising Frogs for Freedom, Prison Project Opens Doors – NYTimes.com.

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