Monthly Archives: March 2012

Soccer: Passing Location Data – Arctic Ice Hockey

Soccer: Passing Location Data – Arctic Ice Hockey How successful passes are at different spots on the field.

Researcher’s Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky

Researcher’s Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky

Blog: Wired Science » Frontal Cortex: Cultivating Genius

Cultivating Genius Jonah Lehrer, Wired Science » Frontal Cortex

A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain: Scientific American

A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain: Scientific American “Yet for many mental disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia, a clear and consistent pathology of the brain has not been found. Why? Researchers have conjectured that the individual neurons are healthy, but they are connected with each other in an abnormal pattern. Unfortunately, […]

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I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex. Mister Rogers kenarneson.tumblr.com

The connection between fan and inmate behavior – Grantland

The connection between fan and inmate behavior – Grantland Bill James

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What makes a great leader?

What makes a great leader? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What is the single strongest predictor of IQ?

What is the single strongest predictor of IQ? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

New like on tumblr: bronxbanter

Liked on Tumblr: bronxbanter

Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War – By Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy

Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War – By Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy

Is Christianism Breeding Atheists? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast

Is Christianism Breeding Atheists? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast So Christianity in America, as Ross Douthat’s excellent forthcoming book explains, is undermined by both the political temptation and degeneracy on the evangelical right and the failure of mainline Protestantism to advance a Christianity that is both at ease with […]

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: Should we blame the diabetes epidemic on lightbulbs?

Should we blame the diabetes epidemic on lightbulbs? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

Blog: Wired Science: Man Successfully Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings

Man Successfully Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings Daniela Hernandez, Wired Science

High-tech Sweden edges closer to becoming cashless society – The Washington Post

High-tech Sweden edges closer to becoming cashless society – The Washington Post

The fallacy of mood affiliation — Marginal Revolution

The fallacy of mood affiliation — Marginal Revolution

Rod Dreher » The Culture of Goldman Sachs

Rod Dreher » The Culture of Goldman Sachs That seems so obvious: the leadership elite within an organization will set the cultural tone for the organization, for better or for worse. But it seems so often ignored. Longtime readers know I am fond of citing one of the few things from political theory class that […]

‘Mister Rogers & Me’: Documentary honors children’s entertainer on his birthday – The Style Blog – The Washington Post

‘Mister Rogers & Me’: Documentary honors children’s entertainer on his birthday – The Style Blog – The Washington Post “I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.”

Rod Dreher » How To Become a One-Percenter

Rod Dreher » How To Become a One-Percenter It is damned difficult to be a truly independent thinker, and to account for the biases of your information environment, which includes all your social and professional cues. How’s that saying go? “Do not count on a man to see something when his livelihood depends on his […]

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | World news | The Guardian

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | World news | The Guardian

Blog: NotGraphs Baseball: Daily Dotes for March 19

Daily Dotes for March 19 Robert J. Baumann, NotGraphs Baseball