Western Thought For Footmen And Aspiring Legionnaires by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blog: Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic: Western Thought For Footmen And Aspiring Legionnaires
# 2013.04.19 – 09:52
Sample Size | FanGraphs Sabermetrics Library
At what point do baseball statistics become reliable?
# 2013.04.18 – 11:01
Blog: The Ümlaut | The Ümlaut: How to Be More Meta-Rational about Politics
# 2013.04.17 – 14:07
YouTube: Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars Filibuster – Parks and Recreation
Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars Filibuster – Parks and Recreation
# 2013.04.17 – 11:40
When Our Kids Own America
"America’s seismic demographic shift is upending life in our suburbs, cities and our popular culture. So why are we still clinging to the same stories to make sense of these changes?"
# 2013.04.17 – 10:01
DISFLUENCY | Edge.org
"We’ve shown that disfluency leads you to think more deeply, as I mentioned earlier, that it forms a cognitive roadblock, and then you think more deeply, and you work through the information more comprehensively." Disfluency == force System 2.
# 2013.04.16 – 17:16
Lead with Pain
Lead your story with the pain == force disfluency == force System 2 thinking instead of System 1 thinking.
# 2013.04.16 – 17:16
Blog: Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic: The Elusive “Good War”
The Elusive “Good War” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
# 2013.04.16 – 10:07
Blog: david-frum: Judge Fines Himself for Contempt of the Court
Judge Fines Himself for Contempt of the Court by David Frum
# 2013.04.16 – 10:07
Bowie Fever
"In his public personas, Bowie exemplifies the psychological theory which says we consist of various self-states, who need to make peace with one another. Except his self-states are so various, there’s no way they could be integrated."
# 2013.04.16 – 08:17
And Now, Deep Thoughts About ‘Deep Thoughts’
‘Thanks in part to my students, I realized that the conversationality, concise humor, ludicrous situations and faux-sincere profundity of the “Deep Thoughts” presage rhetorical turns that now appear often in contemporary poetry. What I regarded as merely hilarious but disposable nuggets were actually a prescient literary innovation.’
# 2013.04.15 – 22:46
Heresy at Gethsemane
Writer contracts cancer at 33, the same age Jesus was crucified
# 2013.04.14 – 10:31
How Parents Around the World Describe their Children
# 2013.04.14 – 10:31
Blog: askblog: Utilitarianism and the Three-Axes Model
Utilitarianism and the Three-Axes Model by Arnold Kling
# 2013.04.11 – 12:07
Blog: Seth’s Blog: When you sell unlimited hope…
When you sell unlimited hope… by Seth Godin
# 2013.04.11 – 11:22