March 2012
February 2012
A life less ordinary?: When it comes to... →
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Ernest Hemingway - Reflections on Ernest Hemingway... →
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Ernest Hemingway - Reflections on Ernest Hemingway... →
All genomes are dysfunctional: broken genes in... →
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion—whether they’re...”
– - some solid advice from Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles.
I finished listening to an excellent audiobook version of the novel tonight.
(Note: For now, at least, I’ve stopped posting any links that put money in my pocket. I’m squeamish about the appearance of a conflict of interest. Also, I never...
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Ross Anderson on the James Webb Telescope
lareviewofbooks:
ROSS ANDERSEN on the James Webb Space Telescope. Image courtesy of NASA
The eye has long been thought the jewel of human anatomy. In Mesopotamia, fount of civilization and astronomy, Sumerians worshipped small gods of clay and marble, featureless but for the stare of large eyes. The ancient Egyptians, famous for economy of expression, had seven different hieroglyphs for the...
January 2012
You can read @carlzimmer’s profile of Tyson in txt only at Zimmer’s site. Only the mammoth skeleton is nekkid: http://t.co/ug7Ps6dQ
Andy Revkin asks for traits, Barry Lopez responds,... →
Earlier today Andy Revkin, over at Dot Earth at the Times,wondered what traitswe humans might be able to develop to that we’d “fall forward rather than down”:the things we don’t know are easily as…
New Yest. Time to Walk →
December 2011
RT @kejames: I think I have a lady-crush the Penis Mom. h/t @David_Dobbs RT @stevesilberman Funny/smart: The Penis Mom http://t.co/OYP4kJ3l
The garden is patient →
RT @MarilynMann Medtronic paid millions to influential UW chairman - JSOnline http://t.co/AOb9ZSfO via @twttimes
A different sort of hive mind →
from Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy:”We will see that the 1.5 kilograms (3 pounds) of bees in a honeybee swarm, just like the 1.5 kilograms (3 pounds) of neurons in a human brain, achieve their…
At table →
Sailing weather http://t.co/HoZ58Hgv
Iraq on the brink, versus what you can hope for. →
In other words, Iraq is once again teetering on the brink of the abyss. It’s not a reassuring sight as we end this year of tumult right across the Arab world. Footnote: I realise we’ve broug …
Susan Sontag | via Byliner.com →
Ice and ... some tiny plant →
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What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us? :... →
Last week http://t.co/VHR2dNu0
At Nutcracker, Vermont ed: Set in 1970s back-to-land era. Will be some contra dancing; Sugar Plum Fairy replaced by Maple Sugar Fairy. OK.
RT @HomeofDarwin: ‘Having given them some red cloth, which they immediately placed round their necks, we became good friends’ Fuegians # …
RT @kzelnio: RT @MeiLinMiranda: RT @LOLGOP: REPORT: Mitt Romney is still furious that the Corporation was not named not Time’s Person of …
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From Tim DeChant: US income inequality worse than in Roman Empire http://t.co/HylMZKdd
RT @simon_frantz: :( MT @dcastelvecchi: To anyone who’s loitered in the nooks and crannies of Paris’s Shakespeare & Co, what a loss. htt …
Icing →
RT @TheAtlanticWire: Five Best Tuesday Columns: Russo on Amazon’s price check promotion, Thiessen on Amnesty International, and more htt …
Nitpicker? U saying she has lice? RT @kejames: @ejwillingham @edyong209 @ShipLives You know what I meant. *grumbles … about nitpickers*
RT @MattNorlander: It’s evident @RealMikeWilbon’s been hacked, and it’s hilarious. Basically streaking via Twitter. Run while you can, man.
RT @mbeisen: @edyong209 @stevesilberman amy harmon’s “target cancer” series was my favorite #longreads of the year
I swear, reading tweets about GOP race, I can absolutely not tell anymore which ones refer to real events and which ones Onionesque jokes
Hysterical. NYPD clears Law and Order’s Zucotti set last night, to chants of “NYPD doesn’t respect Law And Order” http://t.co/ZCJXiFhv
RT @pourmecoffee: NBA has killed the Chris Paul to Lakers deal. This marks the first loss for the 1%.
What have you got in your head? on the Behance... →
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Somehow the fun in u must out. RT @lescarr: Goodness I’m in a frivolous mood today. It must be the marking and the admin.
Folks? RT @olivia_solon: Science Tweeps, can you think of any vocal opponents to Science Commons?
Romney “isn’t a stupid man — but he seems to play one on TV.” Krugman, “Send In the Clueless” @nytimes http://t.co/oDXWZqLQ
Gay Talese in conversation with Esquire’s Chris Jones at Nieman Storyboard. Just glorious stuff. http://t.co/F1yFNNyU
RT @cshirky: Wait, what? Cain lost support among GOP voters over infidelity but not *sexual harassment*? http://t.co/kd4tD2XA #stayclass …
Exactly. RT @ShipLives: @David_Dobbs - Damn. That sounds wonderful. Jasmine?
November 2011
RT @BWJones: @xeni Requiring reporters to wear “protective gear” like we do for .mil embeds is further evidence for the militarization o …
RT @carlzimmer: Loom: Peace, war, and evolution: My profile of Steven Pinker in tomorrow’s New York Times http://t.co/WztG18JK
I saw Martins’s q and thought “Simon will soon provide.” da man. RT @simon_frantz: @mjrobbins Betjeman Arms, Queens Head, Fellow, or Camino
First-Mover Advantage | West Hunter →
Increasingly, it looks as if the hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at the end of the ice age have been largely replaced. Judging from all those U5 mtdna results from ancient skeletons, I’d s …
RT @ejwillingham: Quintuple that! RT @fiainros: #FF for contributors to the best new blog: @DrMRFrancis @JeanneGarb @ejwillingham @Dou …
Brendan Gill as insufferably interesting office... →
Brendan Gill Brendan was the most professional and the most cheerful writer on earth; it was almost unbearable. Back in the sixties and early seventies, my twentieth-floor office …