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Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the Blind Better Access to E-Books | Threat Level | Wired.com
The tides are turning on the popular Obama Administration. Now that the “liberal” President is beyond the honeymoon of his second leadership tour, popularity is giving way to failures in… more →
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Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the Blind Better Access to E-Books | Threat Level | Wired.com
wrote 1 day ago: The tides are turning on the popular Obama Administration. Now that the “liberal” Presi … more →
Manager Uses Urban Dictionary to Defend UFC Fighter's Gay Twitter Slur -- What would Oscar Wilde and George Orwell say?
wrote 4 days ago: Educational attainment, the schools we attend, the neighborhoods we grow up in, and the family that … more →
The penis: Cross to bare | The Economist
wrote 5 months ago: Don’t miss this witty review of the monumental book by Richard Rudgley and its almost comical … more →
100 Notable Books of 2012 - NYTimes.com
wrote 5 months ago: The now famous NYT annual list of top 100 books of the year 2o12 …. You can also click the lin … more →
How Do You Raise a Prodigy? - NYTimes.com
wrote 6 months ago: Wonderful article from the NYTs on child prodigies! The article is a wonderful overview of the paren … more →
Textbooks round the world: It ain’t necessarily so | The Economist
wrote 7 months ago: PARISIANS are in a tizz about capitalism. New Yorkers get stressed about sex. In Seoul and San Anton … more →
The 2011 Nobel prizes: Expanding horizons | The Economist
wrote 7 months ago: THE rules say it is not allowed. But this year a Nobel prize was awarded to a dead man. Ralph Steinm … more →
How Capitalism Can Save Art - WSJ.com
wrote 7 months ago: Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove … more →
Grammar: Is "whom" history? From the mouths of babes | The Economist
wrote 7 months ago: Amazing, this. First, we see how grammatically aware kids are here. Second, we see evidence that gir … more →
Frank Lloyd Wright House in Phoenix Faces Bulldozers - NYTimes.com
wrote 7 months ago: It’s hard to say which is more startling. That a developer in Phoenix could threaten — by Thursday, … more →
Romney or Obama? Political scientists make their predictions - The Washington Post
wrote 7 months ago: Are you ready to call the election? Mitt Romney certainly isn’t, nor for that matter is President Ob … more →
Scientific publishing: The price of information | The Economist
wrote 7 months ago: SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a math … more →
The origins of Christianity: An atheist’s guide | The Economist
wrote 8 months ago: THE rulers of ancient Rome were ruthlessly pragmatic in matters of religion. When a tribe was subdue … more →
Michael Lewis: Obama’s Way | Vanity Fair
wrote 8 months ago: To understand how air-force navigator Tyler Stark ended up in a thornbush in the Libyan desert in Ma … more →
An Open Letter to Wikipedia About Anatole Broyard and "The Human Stain" : The New Yorker
wrote 8 months ago: Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia ent … more →
Female sexuality: Tunnel of love | The Economist
wrote 8 months ago: FOR Shakespeare it was a “detested, dark, blood-drinking pit”; to Henry Miller, “that bushy twat”. T … more →
Out Loud: The Happy Vagina : The New Yorker
wrote 8 months ago: This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy reviews Naomi Wolf’s book “Vagina: A New Biography.” Here Levy … more →
Joe Paterno in Joe Posnanski's New Biography : The New Yorker
wrote 8 months ago: There is a peculiar moment in the middle of “Paterno,” Joe Posnanski’s new biography of the disgrace … more →
Where Do Sentences Come From? - NYTimes.com
wrote 9 months ago: Sift the debris of a young writer’s education, and you find dreadful things — strictures, prohibitio … more →
