“For me, and for many of us, a good teacher is a kind of Beatrice, reaching out to students in their particularity, and drawing them to the Way.”
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Nothing says "going through the motions" quite like consuming "A Christmas Carol" in any form that doesn't involve Muppets. #humbug
— 'Duk (@KevinKaduk) November 20, 2013
via http://twitter.com/KevinKaduk
# 2013.11.20 – 08:49
Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality
“…you could no longer run a country properly if the elites don’t understand technology in the same way they grasp economics or ideology or propaganda.”
# 2013.11.19 – 20:09
Study: Commuting Adversely Affects Political Engagement
“Researchers think an increase in commuting may be partly to blame for widespread political disengagement among many Americans.”
# 2013.11.19 – 19:49
Can nostalgia make us feel good about the future?
“Nostalgia raises self-esteem which in turn heightens optimism.”
# 2013.11.19 – 11:07
The Roots of Good and Evil : An Interview with Paul Bloom : : Sam Harris
# 2013.11.18 – 22:32
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@kenarneson you're such a loser, Ken
— Adrian Garro (@adriangarro) November 19, 2013
via http://twitter.com/adriangarro
# 2013.11.18 – 22:19
8 Simple Copywriting Tips, Backed By Science
# 2013.11.18 – 16:49
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.”
# 2013.11.17 – 15:37
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 divides us from pundits like Brooks and Shields, and even from most economists, is the credit that we assign to market evolution rather than elite expertise as a process for solving problems.”
# 2013.11.17 – 12:19
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.”
# 2013.11.16 – 12:37
The 10 biggest breakthroughs in physics over the past 25 years
# 2013.11.16 – 11:43
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).”
# 2013.11.15 – 11:07
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?”
# 2013.11.15 – 10:49
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.”
# 2013.11.15 – 10:32
Page Weight Matters
“By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets.”
# 2013.11.15 – 09:19