April 2010

What links acquiring editors at large publishing houses and investment bankers? An attention to the mentality of the mob

Seeing/imaging the true solar corona

Revealing the True Solar Corona | by Richard Woo

American Scientist

How imaging may have inadvertently led astrophysicists astray in understanding the Sun

Questioning intent at the Boston Massacre

‘E-books had undeniable advantages for publishers. There would be no more returns, warehouse fees, printing expenses, or shipping costs. The obstacle was that no one knew how e-books should be read.’

‘Why is cheating somehow worse when it’s done in 160 character bursts?’

Reflections from the grandparent stage of life

The US-Sino Currency Dispute: New Insights from Economics, Politics, and Law

‘No sooner had a genre called verbatim drama been identified than sceptics appeared arguing that it was somehow unacceptable to copy dialogue down, rather than to make it up’

Should we feel grateful to the unruly Icelandic volcano?

Antony Flew: Theology and Falsification

‘There is a Stalin pig and a Trotsky pig, but no Lenin pig’

All the Presidents’ Bookshelves

‘In the year before my first period, my mother gives me a book called Woman’s Body, An Owner’s Manual…’

‘Today, Midnight Cowboy provides a spellbinding glimpse-etched in acid-of how we lived then’

Krugman on economically sophisticated environmentalism

Orwell’s Cuppa

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

‘from An Explanation of America: Countries and Explanations’ by Robert Pinsky

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

April 2010

Zinovy Zinik’s serial dream

What links acquiring editors at large publishing houses and investment bankers? An attention to the mentality of the mob

Seeing/imaging the true solar corona

‘Luce in his prime was a giant, venerated and despised with a passion accorded to few of his contemporaries…’

Questioning intent at the Boston Massacre

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‘E-books had undeniable advantages for publishers. There would be no more returns, warehouse fees, printing expenses, or shipping costs. The obstacle was that no one knew how e-books should be read.’

‘Why is cheating somehow worse when it’s done in 160 character bursts?’

John Dewey’s New Paradigm

Reflections from the grandparent stage of life

The US-Sino Currency Dispute: New Insights from Economics, Politics, and Law

‘No sooner had a genre called verbatim drama been identified than sceptics appeared arguing that it was somehow unacceptable to copy dialogue down, rather than to make it up’

Should we feel grateful to the unruly Icelandic volcano?

Antony Flew: Theology and Falsification

‘There is a Stalin pig and a Trotsky pig, but no Lenin pig’

All the Presidents’ Bookshelves

‘In the year before my first period, my mother gives me a book called Woman’s Body, An Owner’s Manual…’

Shit! Bukowski the family guy

‘Today, Midnight Cowboy provides a spellbinding glimpse-etched in acid-of how we lived then’

Krugman on economically sophisticated environmentalism

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