An Interview With Steve Reich, Who Rewrote Radiohead: Gothamist “There have been typical changes in the history in any music that it’s too complicated, it slowly dies, and something simpler replaces it, that simple thing becomes more complex, and so it goes.”
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Arnold Kling on Obamacare
2013.11.17 – 12:19
Arnold Kling on Obamacare “Start by asking why it is that Healthcare.gov is not as good as Amazon.com or Kayak.com. …The deeper answer is that when we look at Kayak and Amazon, we are seeing the survivors that emerged from an intense tournament….Healthcare.gov did not emerge from this sort of competition…My sense is that what […]
The Paradox of a Great University: Frederick Wiseman’s ‘At Berkeley,’ Reviewed
2013.11.16 – 12:37
The Paradox of a Great University: Frederick Wiseman’s ‘At Berkeley,’ Reviewed “The paradox of the movie is that of the good student—the better the university does its job, the less likely its students are to defy the institution and the wider set of values and policies that it embodies and, ultimately, reinforces.”
The 10 biggest breakthroughs in physics over the past 25 years
2013.11.16 – 11:43
The 10 biggest breakthroughs in physics over the past 25 years
Do Marginal Tax Rates Matter for Low-Income People?
2013.11.15 – 11:07
Do Marginal Tax Rates Matter for Low-Income People? “the only method that has consistently demonstrated in the U.S. that it can humanely get people off welfare and into jobs was the workfare movement of the 1990s (which it did without increasing government costs, by the way).”
Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops
2013.11.15 – 10:49
Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops “Why are we funding these really silly internet companies and not major life changing innovations? Why is it that all of my peers are inventing little dinky iPhone apps instead of planes, trains, and automobiles?”
A Review of Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy
2013.11.15 – 10:32
A Review of Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy “America has gradually transformed from a society that merely has a strong and vibrant free market to a society that treats everything—including civic institutions, death, and friendship—as if it were a part of that market.”
Page Weight Matters
2013.11.15 – 09:19
Page Weight Matters “By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets.”
Journal of a Programmer: Aghast at the bullpen
2013.11.15 – 00:02
Journal of a Programmer: Aghast at the bullpen “I’m not quite sure where this open floor plan mania arose from. …But I’ll tell you something: it does not work for software development.”
Tweet by lauraolin
2013.11.14 – 19:02
I WAS TRYING TO DESCRIBE YOU TO SOMEONE pic.twitter.com/rwdott95Hl — laura olin (@lauraolin) November 15, 2013 via http://twitter.com/lauraolin
A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
2013.11.14 – 11:43
A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious I’m not buying this, mostly because I have no idea what “integrated information” means.
Tweet by StaceGots
2013.11.14 – 07:37
I had a dream that the verified checks in people's profiles actually hovered over their heads in real life. I may need a Twitter break. — Stacey Gotsulias (@StaceGots) November 14, 2013 via http://twitter.com/StaceGots
YouTube: 15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes
2013.11.13 – 20:34
15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes Timo Bingmann
YouTube: How the Victorians Wired the World
2013.11.13 – 10:55
How the Victorians Wired the World nave221
Winter’s end in northern Greenland – Return of the Sun – Aeon Film
2013.11.13 – 00:02
Winter’s end in northern Greenland – Return of the Sun – Aeon Film The exquisitely beautiful landscape of northern Greenland comes back to life in the first days of sunlight after weeks of winter darkness.
Monkeys at the Movies (pdf scientific study)
2013.11.12 – 20:07
Monkeys at the Movies (pdf scientific study) “…it seems that what makes people different is our ability to follow a narrative. Whereas monkeys look and react to scenes quickly, people fixate on one actor and integrate complex events over time…remembering our past is a kind of ‘mental time travel’, implying that we do not passively […]
How Monkeys Watch Movies and People Tell Stories
2013.11.12 – 19:49
How Monkeys Watch Movies and People Tell Stories “…it seems that what makes people different is our ability to follow a narrative. Whereas monkeys look and react to scenes quickly, people fixate on one actor and integrate complex events over time.”