Twitter: @ncguk

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

Blog: Ideas Market: ‘San Francisco in Ruins’

Blog: Dave Winer’s “Scripting News” weblog: Why apps are not the future

Blog: The Body Odd: How to spot a liar in 20 seconds flat

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…

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

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.

Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Death, Taxes — and Pujols

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What’s an excellent productivity secret we can learn from Jerry Seinfeld?

Alternate Sleep Cycles | High Existence

This explains Skalman’s clock.

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?

Questions for the Republican Candidates – Anil Dash

Wonder what the equivalent of this list would be for Democrats?

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.”

A Response to Alva Noë’s “Art and the Limits of Neuroscience” : The Beautiful Brain

Twitter: @ducksnorts

ducksnorts On baseball and poetry: http://t.co/Ss2P5Jtm

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Art In The Mind’s Eye

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: How To Stop A Tantrum

Blog: Jared Bernstein | On the Economy: A Fascinating Theory

Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Bob Melvin: Six Scouting Reports