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Vimeo: Regrets: Hobbies

Regrets: Hobbies Coudal Partners

Exclusive: A’s Super Scout (and Moneyball Bad Guy) Grady Fuson Gives the Lowdown on Life in Baseball and A’s Prospects to Watch « A’s Farm

Exclusive: A’s Super Scout (and Moneyball Bad Guy) Grady Fuson Gives the Lowdown on Life in Baseball and A’s Prospects to Watch « A’s Farm Really good interview

Why Patent Lawyers Are Clueless About the Software Industry – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic

Why Patent Lawyers Are Clueless About the Software Industry – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic As a result, there’s a deep and persistent rift between the community of computer programmers, who are overwhelmingly hostile to software patents, and patent lawyers who seem mystified by all the outrage. The job of a patent lawyer […]

Comment: Sergeant Bales’s Shame and Ours : The New Yorker

Comment: Sergeant Bales’s Shame and Ours : The New Yorker

Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: The War on Parents

The War on Parents (author unknown), Dilbert.com Blog

Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit | SPUR – San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association

Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit | SPUR – San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association

Blog: Wired Science: ‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television

‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television Dave Mosher and Daniela Hernandez, Wired Science

YouTube: Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome TEDtalksDirector

Twitter: @CSNBaggs

CSNBaggs Lincecum not happy w/fastball. Said his balls were at his waist and he wants them closer to the knees. I told him to wait a few decades.

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 […]