March 2010
27 posts
“Ever since the Allies bombed the Axis into submission, Western civilization has...”
– Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
“But psychiatry, which back in the seventies was still in thrall to Freud, viewed...”
– Knowledge Is Necessity: Robert Spitzer and the DSM - Part II
“The foundation for the “fat is bad” mantra comes from the following...”
– The misguided war on fat may be making us sicker. - By Melinda Wenner Moyer - Slate Magazine
“You want to use a freaking model? Get a pen and paper and calculate the amount...”
– “Quiblers”, at Crisis is the normal state — Crooked Timber
“How, then, has the Chinese government been able to adopt the principles of...”
– The End of the Beijing Consensus | Foreign Affairs
“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s...”
– The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
“…until suddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court backhand that pulls...”
– Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times
“The graph appeared six times in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...”
– The case against the hockey stick « Prospect Magazine
“Hard as it is to admit, sitting in Sarkozy’s line of vision for two hours was...”
– Sarko the sex dwarf « Prospect Magazine
“When the Ford Motor Company opened in 1903, “jack-of-all trades” mechanics were...”
– Guernica / Labor Pains
Questioning Collapse | Savage Minds →
Mathematics Books | Math-Blog →
“The Internet will never create a new economy based on voluntary instead of paid...”
– Edge: TIME TO START TAKING THE INTERNET SERIOUSLY By David Gelernter
Kickstarter - 8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that... →
“The most shocking result of having researched the causes of the financial crisis...”
– Causes of the Crisis: From Diversity to Consensus, and Austrian Economics