Monthly Archives: November 2015

The Value of Not Getting to the Point

The Value of Not Getting to the Point from Ken Arneson

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Best thing I've read lately about Grantland and making money in publishing these days. https://t.co/cDpVTfYzPN — Dave Studeman (@dastudes) November 6, 2015 via https://twitter.com/dastudes

Animation: A Binary and Its Planets

Animation: A Binary and Its Planets November 5, 2015 at 10:36AM

Formation of Planets in a Protoplanetary Disk

Formation of Planets in a Protoplanetary Disk November 5, 2015 at 10:35AM

NASA’s Hubble Finds Life is Too Fast, Too Furious for This Runaway Galaxy

NASA’s Hubble Finds Life is Too Fast, Too Furious for This Runaway Galaxy November 5, 2015 at 10:32AM

Flying Low over Southeast Greenland

Flying Low over Southeast Greenland November 5, 2015 at 10:23AM

3-D Flyover Visualization of Veil Nebula

3-D Flyover Visualization of Veil Nebula November 5, 2015 at 10:15AM

Fox VP Says Context Matters in Measuring Baseball

Fox VP Says Context Matters in Measuring Baseball “Consider the average of those four World Series played at 10-year intervals.  On average those series lasted six games and would have ranked fourth among primetime entertainment in their respective years.  This year’s series went five games and would rank third for the season-to-date.  Everything and nothing […]

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If you're young and avoidant of trends, you're a hipster. If you're old and avoidant of trends, you're simply out of touch. — Audra Spiven (@audra_spiven) November 5, 2015 via https://twitter.com/audra_spiven

In the 1970s, Scientists Discovered a 2 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor in West Africa

In the 1970s, Scientists Discovered a 2 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor in West Africa There was once a naturally occuring nuclear power plant in Africa.

David Foster Wallace on Why You Should Use a Dictionary, How to Write a Great Opener, and the Measure of Good Writing

David Foster Wallace on Why You Should Use a Dictionary, How to Write a Great Opener, and the Measure of Good Writing from: November 5, 2015 at 12:17AM

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Here is my piece updating Cubs revenue and the surprise I found in their recent spending. https://t.co/LVXQiFlBg0 — Jeff Lamb (@Jefflamb21) November 4, 2015 via https://twitter.com/Jefflamb21

What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?

What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing? from: November 3, 2015 at 10:30PM

Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ – The New York Times

Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ – The New York Times

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love and a Happy Marriage

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love and a Happy Marriage from: November 3, 2015 at 08:49AM

Why Snoopy Is Such a Controversial Figure to ‘Peanuts’ Fans

Why Snoopy Is Such a Controversial Figure to ‘Peanuts’ Fans “Snoopy was the polar opposite of Charlie Brown, who had nothing but failures, losses, and flaws. But were the two quite so radically far apart? Snoopy’s critics are wrong, and so are readers who think that Snoopy actually believes his self-delusions. Snoopy may be shallow […]

The Decay of Twitter

The Decay of Twitter “Making it so an individual tweet’s publicness can be toggled on or off might help users feel more comfortable spending time there. And pushing new users toward secret accounts that can toggle individual tweets public might even allay some of their fears.   Or maybe nothing can be done. No one promises […]

Comparing the United States and Nordic Nations: Is American “Inequality” Bad if It Simply Means Some People Get Richer Faster than other People Get Richer?

Comparing the United States and Nordic Nations: Is American “Inequality” Bad if It Simply Means Some People Get Richer Faster than other People Get Richer? “So here’s the bottom line. If you’re a poor person in America, your income is as high as the incomes of your counterparts in Scandinavia. But you have a much […]

On America’s nomads, from Native to modern

On America’s nomads, from Native to modern “‘Moving about constantly, as in search of pasture…’ The description captures something of the American spirit. Wanderlust runs through the country’s history like a virus, mutating across time, reshaping families and communities, opening up territories and opportunities. American literature, music and film all know the call of the […]

Joseph Henrich on Cultural Transmission

Joseph Henrich on Cultural Transmission from: November 2, 2015 at 06:43AM