2007-08-22 22:56 Pottersville Mailbag
Every once in a great while, I get letters from people who are either in Iraq or claim to be serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. My regular readership may recall the letter that I'd gotten near New Year's from a 20 year-old Marine in Iraq who'd received my CARE Xmas package. I didn't know what to say to the kid. I couldn't in good conscience laud his efforts nor his participation in an illegal and unjustified war nor could I risk angering him or waking him up to the realities that we can see with th …
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2007-08-14 04:35 Book Selection(s) of the Month: Mutants, Strings, Burners, the Singularity, and More
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (July 2007): Science and Beyond (seven books on science - and its opposite!) I. I was lucky enough to join my friend Chuck Blake and a few others (including girlfriend Koli) recently in a discussion of physicist Lee Smolin's book The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. Smolin argues that physics has basically gone down a blind alley the past few decades by assuming, without (as yet) much empirical …
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2007-08-08 06:53 Freakonomics: a (new) blog at the New York Times by Steven J. Drubner and Steven D. Levitt
(Note: all of the posts to this blog to date are reposted in this single post.) August 7, 2007, 9:25 pm Moving Day By Stephen J. Dubner After two and a half years of camping out at Freakonomics.com, after more than 1,300 posts and many thousands of reader comments, this blog is moving. From now on, we will reside here at NYTimes.com. If you are a new reader, welcome. If you are an old reader, know that you can still get here via our old URL, www.freakonomics.com. Whoever you are, thanks for stop …
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2007-07-14 04:32 Will stricter enforcement cause more illegal immigrants to assume real people's social security numb …
Will a crackdown on illegal immigration mean that 13 - 20 million people will need to use legitimate social security numbers to work In response to increasing concerns about illegal immigration, the Department of Homeland Security provides what is known as the Basic Pilot Program (web based), which verifies the validity of a social security number. The problem is that it only verifies -- whether or not, the number is good, but doesn't show if the number is stolen -- or even if the name matches t …
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2007-07-11 23:50 My Navrozov moments
There are three rules you need to remember if you want to survive grad school. Rule (a) is: never go to grad school before you're either old enough to drink, or old enough to have had a drink. Rule (b) is: never go to grad school without first having had a real job, that is, one which you for some reason were once tricked into actually giving a crap about, at least up till they hired that horrible woman with the bad hair. Rule (c) is: never stay in grad school. Since I have broken only (a) and ( …
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2007-07-02 10:00 Formal Book Review: Urban Tribes by Ethan Watters
From time to time I write longer book reviews on books I find particularly interesting. Some previous formal book reviews have been on national security, the CIA and Afghanistan, the prodigious mind of David Foster Wallace, 21st century college life according to Tom Wolfe, and the 4 Hour Workweek. This review is of Ethan Watters' book "Urban Tribes," which argues that more 30 somethings are delaying marriage and forming "urban tribes". When someone claims to have spotted a social trend, two qu …
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2007-06-29 12:17 NYT Article Misses Big Picture
One of my favorite publications stopped me in my tracks the other morning...caused my fresh granola and blueberries to taste sour. The front page headline did its job, " Online Sales Lose Steam ," but the story left out key details. Yes, I was familiar with the Jupiter stats, but they aren't the doom-and-gloom the New York Times was leading readers to believe. Au contraire, as Jack Shafer from Slate.com let us know the next day in his article " Bogus Trend Story of the Day ." He points to the ar …
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Naser Khader gik oftest solo - dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik Forårets mest omtalte partiudbryder Naser Khader, er ifølge Altinget.dk den, der oftest har stemt imod sin egen gruppe. (tags: denmark politics ) Foreign Policy: The Failed States Index 2007 For the second year in a row, Sudan tops the rankings as the state most at risk of failure. (tags: politics development democracy research academic ) "Iraqi Refugees: Our Problem or Sweden's" By Elizabeth Ferris There is at least one crisis emerging from I …
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2007-06-19 01:06 Slate Magazine - Bogus Trend Story of the Day
If no industry can sustain 25 percent annual growth forever, why is it Page One news that the very healthy business of online retailing can't either
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2007-06-18 18:05 Bogus Trend Story of the Day: The Times discovers online sales losing "steam."
Nothing lives up to our expectations. My parents. Your children. Television season finales. Yesterday (June 17), the New York Times located its disappointment in Web-based retailing in a 1,200-word, Page One piece titled "Some Buyers Grow Web-Weary, and Online Sales Lose Steam." [more ... ]
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