Q&A: LaTroy Hawkins on His Long and Blessed Career David Laurila, FanGraphs Baseball
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Blog: kottke.org: The boomerang meteor
2012.10.03 – 16:57
The boomerang meteor Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Blog: Science: Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous? (Yup.)
2012.10.03 – 14:50
Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous? (Yup.) (author unknown), Science
Blog: Wired Science: The Race to Bring Quantum Teleportation to Your World
2012.10.03 – 14:50
The Race to Bring Quantum Teleportation to Your World Adam Mann, Wired Science
Debate Pivots: How Politicians Get Away With Dodging The Question
2012.10.03 – 14:35
Debate Pivots: How Politicians Get Away With Dodging The Question “people are capable of detecting dodges — but only if they’re egregious. They don’t seem capable of detecting subtle evasions.”
Blog: THE BOOK–Playing The Percentages In Baseball: Rule of 17
2012.10.03 – 14:09
Rule of 17 Tangotiger, THE BOOK–Playing The Percentages In Baseball
YouTube: LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) Layout 2012.9
2012.10.03 – 12:35
LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) Layout 2012.9 akiyuky
Tradition and traditionalism
2012.10.03 – 12:13
Tradition and traditionalism “Traditionalists…seize on some aspect of a tradition and run with it in a way that may or may not be faithful to the living tradition”
The Life of a Writer in Three Acts
2012.10.03 – 12:12
The Life of a Writer in Three Acts Carson Cistulli: “The Life of a Famous Writer is very similar to the above, except for the addition of a fourth act, in which the deceased author’s work is discovered and then hailed for its original style.”
Blog: david-frum: Does Extreme Inequality Hurt Growth?
2012.10.02 – 09:55
Does Extreme Inequality Hurt Growth? David Frum, david-frum
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
2012.10.01 – 10:32
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life “Too often we compel our children to follow the most obvious paths, happy for them to become robotically focused doctors, scientists, lawyers, and similar “experts” or “technicians,” even as we tend to view the making of lots of money and the acquisition of a McMansion in a gated community as the […]
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Cespedes Not Missing
2012.10.01 – 10:22
Cespedes Not Missing Jeff Zimmerman, FanGraphs Baseball
How tickling a child connects parents and kids.
2012.10.01 – 10:16
How tickling a child connects parents and kids. “In the wild, chimpanzee infants will bite their mothers, who respond by tickling; the infants then bite their mothers again, which provokes more tickling; and so on. It’s a social dance: Tickling is the way we and the chimps establish, without words, that we’re in this thing […]
YouTube: Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
2012.10.01 – 10:10
Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are TEDtalksDirector
Blog: The Body Odd: Why some of us refuse to face facts (yes, ‘birthers,’ that includes you)
2012.10.01 – 08:52
Why some of us refuse to face facts (yes, ‘birthers,’ that includes you) Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor, The Body Odd