High School Safety in Northern Virginia by Alex Tabarrok
Blog: Dodger Thoughts: Tyra’s college application essay on ‘Friday Night Lights’
# 2013.02.13 – 20:52
Blog: The Dish: Hitch And Sully: “The Problem Is The Will Of So Many People To Obey”
Hitch And Sully: “The Problem Is The Will Of So Many People To Obey” by Andrew Sullivan
# 2013.02.13 – 14:22
Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral”
Interview by The A.V. Club
# 2013.02.13 – 11:31
Blog: Science: What Is It About Emily?
What Is It About Emily? by (author unknown)
# 2013.02.12 – 10:53
Blog: Brain Pickings: The Math of Love: Calculating the Odds of Finding Your Soulmate
# 2013.02.12 – 10:37
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Daylight Upon Magic
Daylight Upon Magic by Rod Dreher
# 2013.02.12 – 10:07
Britain’s War Machine and The Wages of Destruction –
"Genocide, argues Tooze, was built into the German war plan from the very start. Hitler’s strategic math required him to starve to death millions of urban eastern Europeans in order to extract the grain to feed a war-fighting Germany cut off from world trade."
# 2013.02.10 – 16:47
Ten Virtues for the Modern Age
Resilience, empathy, patience, sacrifice, politeness, humor, self-awareness, forgiveness, hope, confidence.
# 2013.02.10 – 15:31
Proudly Fraudulent: Interview With Kenneth Goldsmith
“patchwriting—a way of weaving together various shards of preexisting texts into a tonally cohesive whole and presenting it as if it’s original”
# 2013.02.09 – 17:01
Frank Chimero × Blog × All Kinds of Awesome
“the catalyst for a conversation with a child that starts with “What’s that?” and ends with “That’s awesome.””
# 2013.02.08 – 13:47
Blog: NotGraphs Baseball: The Red Schoendienst
The Red Schoendienst by Patrick Dubuque
# 2013.02.08 – 12:02
Blog: NotGraphs Baseball: The Natural: A Timely Review
The Natural: A Timely Review by Patrick Dubuque
# 2013.02.06 – 11:02
Steven Soderbergh, Political Theorist
Key quote: “The American government is not designed to run things well – it is designed to prevent civil war or violent revolution by mediating irreconcilable differences between regional and other large interests.”
# 2013.02.05 – 17:59
The Trouble with Wall Street by Michael Lewis
“The ultimate goal should be to create institutions so dull and easy to understand that, when a young man who works for one of them walks into a publisher’s office and offers to write up his experiences, the publisher looks at him blankly and asks, ‘Why would anyone want to read that?'”
# 2013.02.05 – 14:39
Blog: I Love Charts: The Intricate Anatomy Of UX Design
The Intricate Anatomy Of UX Design by joberholtzer
# 2013.02.04 – 11:12
Just How Much Is Sports Fandom Like Religion? – Michael Serazio – The Atlantic
“Theological justifications are really just incidental; what matters is that through our faith in these common artifacts, community is forged.”
# 2013.02.04 – 00:02