Self-Healing Concrete and Other 21st-Century Miracles Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Vice And Virtue | The American Conservative
2012.10.31 – 12:24
Vice And Virtue | The American Conservative “There is no formula for these things. Err too much on the side of permissiveness, and you get anarchy, moral and sometimes otherwise. Err too much on the side of strictness, and you get cruelty and inhumanity.”
YouTube: Prickles & Goo: Alan Watts Trey Parker Matt Stone South Park
2012.10.31 – 11:16
Prickles & Goo: Alan Watts Trey Parker Matt Stone South Park theuniverseas
Inside The Major League Baseball Tech Startup That Could Change Television
2012.10.31 – 09:47
Inside The Major League Baseball Tech Startup That Could Change Television “Suddenly the real value of the Tampa Bay Rays isn’t in trying to attract fans to watch a scrappy team play baseball, it’s in the 1/30th equity they have in that little tech startup they invested in to put box scores up on their […]
Making the Jobs of the Future Work | Via Meadia
2012.10.30 – 12:18
Making the Jobs of the Future Work | Via Meadia “Workers of the future are going to be much more like entrepreneurs, negotiating short term assignments, juggling part time gigs, combining income from self employment and part time work. This implies a very different education than our current big box, stay in line system can […]
Astros’ Luhnow on brain trust, analytics, early struggles
2012.10.30 – 11:36
Astros’ Luhnow on brain trust, analytics, early struggles “But to just repeat and sort of disagree with the process and say, ‘Well, I think we should be highlighting tools more,’ or ‘I think we should be highlighting performance more,’ or ‘I think this tool is more important than that tool or whatever,’ we’ve already gone […]
Baseball and the Art of the Possible
2012.10.30 – 11:04
Baseball and the Art of the Possible “In fact, the beauty he should prefer — or, at least, that I prefer — is the moment before the blackbird whistles. It could sound like anything, one imagines.”
Theodicy
2012.10.30 – 10:50
Theodicy “Is it possible to believe in a loving God who is omnipotent … in the face of the massive sufferings of human beings and animals? … Most do so with an appeal to mystery sooner or later, since experience and evidence contradict the initial assumptions: divine omnipotence, divine goodness, and the reality of evil […]
Yeshayah Goldfarb helps Giants win the World Series championship
2012.10.30 – 10:37
Yeshayah Goldfarb helps Giants win the World Series championship “Yeshayah remembers growing up in such an environment — an eclectic mix of baseball and Jewish observance.”
Blog: Sabermetric Research: Would Toyota sell fewer cars if they raised the price by a penny?
2012.10.30 – 10:07
Would Toyota sell fewer cars if they raised the price by a penny? Phil Birnbaum, Sabermetric Research
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What do you want to achieve before you die?
2012.10.30 – 09:44
What do you want to achieve before you die? admin, Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Blog: The Feature: The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis
2012.10.29 – 11:52
The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis (author unknown), The Feature
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What are the 18 secrets to giving a presentation like Steve Jobs?
2012.10.29 – 11:15
What are the 18 secrets to giving a presentation like Steve Jobs? admin, Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: The Software Form of Government
2012.10.29 – 11:15
The Software Form of Government (author unknown), Dilbert.com Blog
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
2012.10.29 – 08:24
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite “Men who are personally incorrupt can be the worst monsters — again, Robespierre — because they lose their humanity in worship of abstractions. Cruelty and despotism is in our nature.”
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Sergio Romo and the Tim Wakefield Fastball
2012.10.29 – 07:41
Sergio Romo and the Tim Wakefield Fastball Jeff Sullivan, FanGraphs Baseball
Quote from Tumblr
2012.10.28 – 23:56
The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, […]