ncguk “We spent so long looking for the Higgs boson, and all the time it was in our hearts.” — Higgs Boson Christmas Special
Twitter: @baseballcrank
baseballcrank A fairer tax system must, by definition, be simpler. Concentrated wealth is needed to lobby for, exploit complexity. #rsrh
# 2011.12.13 – 12:40
Blog: Ideas Market: ‘San Francisco in Ruins’
# 2011.12.13 – 12:22
Blog: Dave Winer’s “Scripting News” weblog: Why apps are not the future
# 2011.12.13 – 12:22
Blog: The Body Odd: How to spot a liar in 20 seconds flat
# 2011.12.13 – 12:22
From Finland, an Intriguing School-Reform Model – NYTimes.com
“The primary aim of education is to serve as an equalizing instrument for society.” That’s not exactly how I would have defined the aim of education…
# 2011.12.13 – 11:32
Twitter: @PerKohler
PerKohler A group of researchers set out to/
explain inheritable IQ/
But every gene/
regressed towards the mean/
I should probably’ve written a haiku
explain inheritable IQ/
But every gene/
regressed towards the mean/
I should probably’ve written a haiku
# 2011.12.13 – 07:25
Twitter: @brianboyer
brianboyer Buy the cheapest tool that fits the job. If you use it so much that it breaks, buy the most expensive tool. — My pal’s dad.
# 2011.12.12 – 20:55
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Death, Taxes — and Pujols
# 2011.12.12 – 08:27
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What’s an excellent productivity secret we can learn from Jerry Seinfeld?
# 2011.12.12 – 07:56
Everything You Know About Education Is Wrong – Jordan Weissmann – Business – The Atlantic
Study reveals what correlates with high test scores. My question is, what goals of education do high test scores correlate with?
# 2011.12.11 – 18:17
Questions for the Republican Candidates – Anil Dash
Wonder what the equivalent of this list would be for Democrats?
# 2011.12.11 – 18:17
Cosmic Log – Can physicists crack the big puzzle?
“If you’re a Beethoven, if you’re proposing some symphony and you don’t publish it, the chance that somebody else will create the very same symphony someday … well, that just doesn’t happen. But in the case of science, nature has already constructed the symphony, and we’re trying to find what it is.”
# 2011.12.11 – 17:32
A Response to Alva Noë’s “Art and the Limits of Neuroscience” : The Beautiful Brain
# 2011.12.10 – 20:03
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Art In The Mind’s Eye
# 2011.12.10 – 12:23
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: How To Stop A Tantrum
# 2011.12.10 – 11:07
Blog: Jared Bernstein | On the Economy: A Fascinating Theory
# 2011.12.09 – 18:37