February 2012
6 posts
Today’s JAM. Sit back and enjoy, people.
Why do people hate rap and opera? →
If you believe Tom Huizenga from NPR Music, the two genres have a lot in common: they both require substantially more effort to appreciate than other forms of music. Interesting take on it.
NPR Valentines Day Cards: The Best Things About... →
Guinessometrics: Saving Science and Statistics... →
More proof you need to be drinking to do econometrics properly.
WatchListening to the past. This is simply fascinating.
gainfulunemployment:
165 million year old love song. Scientists used a very detailed fossil of a Jurassic cricket to recreate its mating call.
Does it sound more forlorn 165 million years later, with no one to answer?
January 2012
6 posts
I walked outside to feel the snow on my face.
I had been working hard all day, pouring over volumes of methodologies for comparative political and social research. I needed a break and had laundry to do - my laundry facilities are in a basement I must walk around the building to reach - so it seemed a logical time to set down the book, take off my reading glasses, and trundle outside.
It had...
Winter afternoons
I can hear the kettle boiling over from my office, so I rise eagerly from my chair and follow a familiar path to the kitchen. Open cabinet, grab honey, pick up a mug from the drying rack by the sink. A dollop of honey goes into the bottom of the mug and begins to spread out, stopping only at the edge of the translucent paper shielding my tea leaves. As water pours into the mug it instantly begins...
Salvador Dali illustrates Alice in Wonderland →
Pretty fascinating, way cool.
December 2011
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September 2011
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Eight Beers Americans No Longer Drink →
Which beers are falling precipitously in the sales department? Well, here’s your answer. For all, there is a good reason they’re tanking…
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August 2011
5 posts
Quantum Diaries →
Great quote, agreed.
mbatt:
Quote of the article: ”Evolution works on the same principle as the capitalist society. There is no central planning but a massively parallel system with a very ruthless feedback loop: adapt or die. It is ironic that the left attacks capitalism and supports evolution, while right attacks evolution and supports capitalism since both evolution and capitalism depend on...
“But for those making more than $1 million — there were 236,883 such households...”
– Stop Coddling the Super Rich , by Warren E Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathoway
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Not quite a paywall, not quite free... →
I really like this take on covering the costs of providing content online. Would love to see some kind of tweaking of it for NYT or WSJ instead their pretty strict paywall setup. For the record, I’d donate for those sites, but am hesitant to pay as much as they want for unlimited access to their content.
July 2011
4 posts
Richard Feynman as a comic book →
Simply beyond awesome. I’m no physicist, but I want this on my shelf.
June 2011
7 posts
I don’t want to be that dude who sends you every funny video ever. But this little dog is just too amusingly afeared of an inflatable alligator to keep to myself.
animalsbeingdicks:
Earnest knew they were out to get him. Everyone thought he was crazy, but now EVERYONE knows they’re on his tail.
May 2011
6 posts
Urn that turns you into a tree →
Innovative way of tackling the burial and memorial process after death. I, for one, am down with this. I know I’d rather leave behind a tree than a tombstone - I think I’d like to be a crape myrtle.
April 2011
7 posts
Nietzsche Family Circus →
Randomized Nietzsche quotes and Family Circus cartoons. Some are too good to miss.
http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/ →
Fun with twitter. Too much fun, really.
kylewrather:
Fun with Twitter.
cheatsheet:
Yeah, this is fun. A rabbit hole, really.
March 2011
3 posts
